Smack Technologies says it raised $61 million in Series B funding
Smack Technologies said the financing will support its Alpha and Omega platforms, hardware for edge deployment, and hiring.
Smack Technologies said Aug. 18, 2026, that it raised $61 million in a Series B financing round led by Costanoa Ventures and First In.
The company said the money will help expand its national-security AI platforms, which it says are built for command-level and tactical-edge decision support. Smack said the new funding brings total capital raised to more than $90 million.
Smack described itself as a frontier AI lab for national security and said it was co-founded in 2024 by MARSOC veterans. The company said its Omega platform is designed for campaign-level reasoning at the command level, while Alpha is intended to extend those capabilities to warfighters and autonomous systems operating in comms- and compute-constrained environments.
Smack said additional participants in the round included Point72 Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Nomi Capital, Felicis, Sapphire Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Fortitude Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Palumni VC. The company said proceeds will go toward building proprietary hardware for deploying Alpha to the edge, increasing model scope across domains and warfighting functions, and hiring AI research and engineering talent.
In a statement included with the announcement, CEO and co-founder Andy Markoff said the Department of War needs more autonomous decision-making while keeping humans in the loop where that is ethically and strategically valuable. First In General Partner Arthur Karell said Smack is producing “fight-tonight” AI decision-making models. Costanoa Founder and Managing Partner Greg Sands said commercial large language models are not enough for peer-level conflict and said Smack is building a training environment to capture expertise and turn it into models that work from command centers to disconnected environments.
What comes next is execution: Smack said it will use the capital to expand product development and hiring as it pushes Alpha and Omega into more defense settings.
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