
Scout AI is a frontier AI lab for U.S. defense. It was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis with a mission to deploy mission-ready AI agents across unmanned systems for the Department of War and its allies. Its Fury foundation model transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms and payloads into intelligent, collaborative teammates that multiply warfighter effectiveness. Scout AI is based in Sunnyvale, CA and is backed by leading institutional investors including Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.

Scout AI is a frontier AI lab for U.S. defense. It was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis with a mission to deploy mission-ready AI agents across unmanned systems for the Department of War and its allies. Its Fury foundation model transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms and payloads into intelligent, collaborative teammates that multiply warfighter effectiveness. Scout AI is based in Sunnyvale, CA and is backed by leading institutional investors including Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Founded: August 2024
Core product: Fury — vision-language-action robotic foundation model for defense
Reported funding: $15M seed (reported)
Founders: Colby Adcock (CEO), Collin Otis (CTO)
Defense-focused robotics and autonomous systems
2024
Artificial Intelligence; Defense Robotics
$15,000,000
Reported seed round; multiple venture and strategic investors listed in public profiles.
“Includes venture and strategic investors; public profiles list Align Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures among investors”
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