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Helsing

Application

European defense AI company building AI for fighter jets and military systems.

Total funding$3.3B

Valuation$18B

Employees—

Founded2021

HeadquartersMunich, Germany

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Altra Platform

  Reconnaissance-strike software that plans missions and directs Helsing's uncrewed systems.

• CA-1 Europa Robot

  Autonomous fighter aircraft in the three-to-five tonne class, under development with Grob Aircraft.

• HX-2 Robot

  Electrically propelled strike drone with on-board autonomy that continues to operate without a data link.

• Centaur AI agent

  AI pilot integrated into fighter-aircraft cockpits, using reinforcement learning for autonomous air-combat decision-making and tactical execution; flight-tested on the Saab Gripen E.

• Cirra Application

  AI for electronic warfare that classifies and reads intent of unknown (software-defined) anti-aircraft radar emitters in real time, onboard combat aircraft (Cirra Onboard) and via offline analysis (Cirra Ground Station).

• SG-1 Fathom Hardware

  Mass-manufacturable subsurface glider for underwater surveillance, deployable in swarms to patrol vast underwater areas, operating at depth throughout the water column.

• Lura Infrastructure service

  Underwater-surveillance AI software platform built on a large acoustic model (LAM), providing real-time detection and classification at the edge for SG-1 Fathom swarms; open system for allied-platform interoperability.

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 16 Aug 2026

Helsing Stock, Hiive, August 16, 2026. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Valuation

News reporting · 13 Jul 2026

Defense startup Helsing raises $1.8 billion at $18 billion valuation, CNBC, 2026-07-13. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-07-13. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field (March 2021).

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