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Saronic Technologies

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US defense autonomous-surface-vessel maker (Austin TX; founded 2022; CEO Dino Mavrookas) of USVs (Corsair/Mirage/Marauder); $1.75B Series D at $9.25B (2026);…

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Founded
2022
HQ
Austin, Texas, USA
Status
Private

The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Saronic Technologies: 4 models, 6 deployments across 6 regions, $2.6B raised, 2 active incidents. 5 sources back the record.

CategoryMaritime

Funding

$2.6B

Models

4

Deployments

6

Employees

1.1k

Patents

1

Overview

US defense autonomous-surface-vessel maker (Austin TX; founded 2022; CEO Dino Mavrookas) of USVs (Corsair/Mirage/Marauder); $1.75B Series D at $9.25B (2026); new-defense AI-first maritime.

Verified record

Verified deployments
6 deployments on file
Active incidents
2 incidents on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED
$9.3B (reported, approximate)as of Mar 2026

Priced roundSeries D post-money

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Key facts

Product

Defense USVs: Corsair (24') / Mirage (52') / Marauder (180' MUSV).

Gating event

$392M Navy OTA (ceiling; ~$197M obligated Jul 2025; vessel-unnamed).

CEO

Dino Mavrookas

Funding Round

$1.75B Series D at $9.25B valuation (2026)

Positioning

Defense AI-first maritime company

Data & sources

Press releases

2

Patent documents

1

Web sources

2

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Models (4)

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Current platform

Corsair

[Saronic](/companies/saronic)'s Corsair is a 24-foot autonomous surface vessel (ASV) designed for multi-mission naval operations at scale. Capable of carrying 1,000 lbs of payload over 1,000+ nautical miles at speeds exceeding 35 knots, Corsair features a modular architecture enabling maritime domain awareness, ISR, strike, and force-protection missions. In July 2026, three Corsair USVs became the first sea drones used in US combat operations, striking Iran's Bandar Abbas Naval Base. The platform also performed the US military's first USV aircrew recovery in June 2026, rescuing downed Apache pilots off Oman. The US Navy awarded Saronic a $392M production contract in December 2025.

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Current platform

Cutlass

Saronic's Cutlass is a 14-foot autonomous surface vessel designed for longer-range operations and heavier payloads than the Spyglass, running Saronic's autonomy stack for unmanned maritime missions.

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Current platform

Spyglass

Saronic's Spyglass is a 6-foot autonomous surface vessel for tactical missions and collaborative swarms, part of Saronic's unified-autonomy ASV family for maritime domain awareness in contested, GPS-denied environments.

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Current platform

Saronic USV (Corsair / Mirage / Marauder)

Saronic Technologies (founded 2022 in Austin, Texas by Dino Mavrookas, an eleven-year Navy SEAL, with CTO Vibhav Altekar, an early Anduril engineer who worked on Ghost Shark, and co-founders Rob Lehman and Doug Lambert) makes defense autonomous surface vessels, extending the new-defense AI-first cohort of Anduril, Shield AI, and Helsing into the surface-maritime regime. Its current production line is the 24-foot Corsair, the 52-foot Mirage, and the 180-foot Marauder medium uncrewed surface vessel, and it is building a Port Alpha shipyard. Its funding ladder ran from a $175 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation in 2024 to a $600 million Series C at $4 billion in February 2025 and a $1.75 billion Series D at a $9.25 billion valuation on March 31, 2026, led by Kleiner Perkins. Several corrections to stale framing are worth recording: the originating dispatch's $600 million Series C is superseded by the Series D, the earlier Spyglass and Cutlass vessels are superseded by the Corsair, Mirage, and Marauder line with the Marauder at 180 rather than 150 feet, and the often-cited $392 million Corsair contract framing is wrong because the $392 million is a Navy other-transaction-authority ceiling through 2031 with about $197 million obligated in July 2025, and the Navy did not name a vessel. The registry records it at early commercial maturity: one real production-intent Navy contract with money obligated clears the gating bar above pure development, but quantities and deliveries are undisclosed and the larger Mirage and Marauder platforms have no verified at-sea customer delivery, so they are production-claimed rather than fielded-confirmed, and the $1.75 billion of capital is not itself a fielding signal. Its Port Alpha throughput claims, any Mirage or Marauder customer delivery, and its autonomous-warship mission performance are not verified.

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Partnerships

Every company Saronic Technologies has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

5 total5 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1US Navy2× joint
  2. 28VC1× joint1 total
  3. 3Andreessen Horowitz1× joint2 total
  4. 4Caffeinated Capital1× joint1 total
  5. 5Elad Gil1× joint
  6. 6Huntington Ingalls Industries1× joint4 total

Most recent

  1. US Navy MUSV Marketplace x Saronic x HII2026-05-29
    with Huntington Ingalls Industriesoperating
  2. Saronic x US Navy Corsair ASV Production2026-02-15
    with U.S. Navyoperating
  3. Tangram Vision x Saronic Technologies2025-11-12
    with Tangram Visionoperating
  4. Saronic x US Navy Corsair2025-08-22
    with US Navyoperating
  5. Saronic Series B (2024)2024-07-19
    with Elad Giloperating

Relationships

HHuntington Ingalls IndustriesTechnology partnerUUS NavyCustomerUU.S. NavyCustomerTTangram VisionTechnology partnerEElad GilInvestor88VCInvestorAAndreessen HorowitzInvestorCCaffeinated CapitalInvestorNNightDragonInvestorKKleiner PerkinsInvestor

Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Saronic Technologies, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 100% (1 of 1 resolved claims verified; 3 tracked)
  • VerifiedCustomer · claimed 2026-02-01
    “U.S. Navy awarded Saronic a $392 million production”

    Correction: this verdict was recorded with the claim date as its effective date. DEPLOY recorded it on 2026-07-09, which is its effective date.

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  • OpenTimeline · claimed 2026-02-01 · deadline 2027-08-01
    “By end of 2026 or within 18 months of contract award”

    Delivery timeline is 18 months from contract award. First Corsair vessels expected by mid-2027. Mirage (52ft) launched July 2026 but Corsair production timeline not yet confirmed. https://www.facebook.com/navalnewscom/posts/saronic-on-july-2-2026-announced-the-launch-of-its-first-mirage-a-52-ft-16-meter/1459178489561843/

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  • OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-01-01 · deadline 2026-12-31
    “Saronic is targeting 20 vessels per year by end of 2026”

    Saronic launched its first Mirage USV (52ft) on July 2, 2026. Three more hulls under construction. 20 vessels/year by end of 2026 is ambitious given current production rate of ~4 vessels. https://www.facebook.com/navalnewscom/posts/saronic-on-july-2-2026-announced-the-launch-of-its-first-mirage-a-52-ft-16-meter/1459178489561843/

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Saronic Technologies, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What is a maritime robot?
A maritime robot is an autonomous uncrewed vehicle (USV surface + AUV/UUV subsea) operating in the maritime regulatory regime for ocean data collection + commercial + defense operations. Per DEPLOY's framework, the cohort enumerates as: surface×commercial (Saildrone fleet) + surface×defense (Saronic Corsair/Mirage/Marauder) + subsea×defense triad (Anduril Dive-LD + Anduril Ghost Shark + HII REMUS) + subsea×commercial (Bedrock Ocean) + autonomy-system (Sea Machines) + hybrid surface+subsea (Ocean Aero Triton) + legacy-prime entity-scoped (Kongsberg HUGIN AUV + Exail DriX USV). Editorial throughlines: regime matrix (surface×commercial vs surface×defense vs subsea×commercial vs subsea×defense vs autonomy-system vs hybrid); new-defense maritime extension (Saronic + Anduril extend Anduril+Helsing+Shield-AI new-defense from aerial into water, contrasting HII REMUS legacy prime); entity-scoping discipline (registry entity scoped to AI-primary vehicle not parent corp); captive-data-as-a-service vs hardware-sale vs autonomy-system-vendor business-model split.Read the full explainer →
What is Saronic?
Saronic is the canonical new-defense AI-first surface drones exemplar; extends the Anduril + Helsing + Shield AI new-defense cohort from aerial into surface naval. Verified facts per Agent A foundational ingest: $1.75B Series D at $9.25B valuation March 2026; product line Corsair + Mirage + Marauder; Corsair Navy contract $392M ceiling with ~$197M obligated (vessel-unnamed). The aggregator drift caught by Agent A on prior dispatch's $600M/$4B and Spyglass/Cutlass framings is exactly the verified-vs-claimed framework discipline applied to defense contract values + fielding dates + product-line specifics. Per DEPLOY's framework, Saronic operates substantive verified defense procurement engagement; hardware-sale business model contrasts structurally with Saildrone's captive data-as-a-service position.Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (10)

ArrivalsGoutham Subramanian from Anduril Industries, Nick Stoner from Anduril Industries, Vibhav Altekar from Anduril Industries

DeparturesGoutham Subramanian to Anduril Industries, Nick Stoner to Anduril Industries, Vibhav Altekar to Anduril Industries

Founders (4)

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Board (6)

Safety record

2 incidents on record (1 moderate, 1 minor). Most recent: Jun 2026.

moderate
1
minor
1
other
1
collision
1

Most recent: Jun 2026

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

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Incidents affecting Saronic Technologies (2)

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Saronic Technologies in third-party press

Hellenic Navy Tests SARONIC’s Corsair USV Ahead of Major Order

Oct 14, 2026

Saronic breaks ground on $3 billion-plus Port Alpha shipyard in Texas to build Navy and commercial vessels at greater scale

Oct 2, 2026

Saronic begins Port Alpha shipyard construction in Texas

Oct 1, 2026

Peers

42 peers across 2 segments. Every Saronic Technologies competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

marine(34)

29 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 5727.802012906746) · leader Anduril Industries at 7141%

usv(8)

2 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 5766.949001814165) · leader Kraken Technology Group at 6958%

Mentioned on (30)

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