Smack Technologies has raised $61 million in Series B financing to expand its domain-specific artificial intelligence technology for military decision-making, bringing the national security AI company’s total capital raised to more than $90 million. Costanoa Ventures and First In led the round, with participation from Point72 Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Nomi Capital, Felicis, Scribble Ventures, Fortitude Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Palumni VC.
Smack plans to use the funding to develop proprietary hardware for deploying Alpha, its tactical AI platform, directly at the edge.
Alpha is designed for warfighters operating in environments where communications and computing resources may be constrained.
The company also operates Omega, which supports strategic planning at the command level. Alpha is intended to extend related decision-making capabilities from command centers to personnel and autonomous systems operating in the field.
Smack said its technology differs from general-purpose commercial large language models because its AI is designed to reason around the physics, resource limitations and operational complexity associated with military environments.
The company plans to expand the scope of its models across additional military domains and functions while hiring AI researchers and engineers.
Smack describes its broader approach as Intelligent Autonomy, which focuses on campaign-level decision-making rather than limiting autonomy to individual platforms such as drones or vehicles.
Omega provides reasoning at the command level while Alpha extends that reasoning to the tactical edge, creating what the company describes as an AI reasoning layer across multiple military echelons and functions.
Smack was co-founded in 2024 by MARSOC veterans. And its systems are intended to support campaign planning in minutes and plan updates in seconds for the U.S. and allied forces.
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“The next peer-level conflict won’t be won by the side with the most sensors and effectors. It will be won by the side with Decision Dominance, the side that can turn information and capabilities into action the fastest. The DoW needs the entire decision-making process to become more autonomous while still making the correct decisions in an increasingly complex battlespace.”
Andy Markoff, CEO And Co-Founder Of Smack Technologies
“The nature of warfare doesn’t change, but its velocity absolutely does. Warfighters today may have better situational awareness, but what they need is decision-making support at machine speed. Smack is leading the production of fight-tonight AI decision-making models, and we couldn’t be prouder to support its highly experienced team of operators and researchers as they deploy these advanced models downrange.”
Arthur Karell, General Partner At First In
“You can’t simply fine-tune a commercial large language model, call it defense tech and expect to win a peer-level fight. That requires both a detailed understanding of sensors and effectors and the hard-earned, tacit knowledge that lives in the heads of people who’ve made decisions under fire.”
“Smack is the first team we’ve seen build the training environment to capture that expertise and turn it into models that work everywhere the fight happens, from the command center to the tactical edge, including in low-compute, disconnected environments where cloud-dependent systems simply can’t operate.”
Greg Sands, Founder And Managing Partner At Costanoa Ventures
