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Airis Labs

Category: AI in Defense / Aerospace

AI defense technology company that converts unstructured visual data from drones, CCTV, body cameras, and social media into machine-readable intelligence for government and law enforcement missions. Airis Labs was founded in 2023. The company is led by Noam Friedman. Based in Washington, D.C., United States (also Tel Aviv, Israel). Team size: 45-50. Total funding raised: $60M. Latest round: Series B. Key investors include PSG Equity; TLV Partners; Stepstone Group; Redseed Ventures; Eyal Waldman (former Mellanox founder-CEO); Jeff Horing; Yasmin Lukatz; David Chinn.

Founded
2023
Headquarters
Washington, D.C., United States (also Tel Aviv, Israel)
Team size
45-50
Total funding
$60M

Value proposition

Turns the flood of unstructured visual data into machine-readable, searchable, real-time intelligence that analysts and AI agents can act on — built in real operational environments, not labs, with self-hosted deployment for classified and sovereign environments

Products and solutions

User-Generated Field Intelligence (UGFI) platform — ingests fragmented visual data from smartphones, social media, digital forensics, CCTV, body cameras, drones, FMV and turns into structured, searchable intelligence; Super Perspective — unified intelligence layer across all feeds, files, and frames for analysts and AI agents

Unique value

Defines the new category of User-Generated Field Intelligence (UGFI); platform was field-tested under real wartime conditions within months of founding; source-agnostic ingestion of any authorized visual data; self-hosted deployment for classified/disconnected environments; team composed of veterans from Israeli intelligence and Palantir

Target customer

Government agencies (defense, intelligence, law enforcement, customs, border security) across the U.S., Israel, and allied nations

Industries served

National security / defense; law enforcement; public safety; border management; emergency response; customs

Technology advantage

AI platform trained on real-world operational data (not synthetic); speeds up some video analysis tasks by 150x; multimodal models processing video, audio, and text; designed for chaotic field conditions with noisy, partial, unsynchronized visual data; drag-and-drop investigation interface; natural language querying of visual data

How they differentiate

Unlike most defense AI platforms built in controlled lab environments, Airis was operational under real-world conditions (wartime in Israel after Oct 7 attacks) within months of founding on live operational data — not synthetic benchmarks. The platform is source-agnostic, customer-controlled, and self-hosted. Competing less against other vendors and more against fragmented in-house data science projects that don't scale.

Main competitors

Palantir (Project Maven); Helsing; Anduril; Scale AI defense unit; BlueGreen Vision; ION-X

Key partnerships

Oracle Defense Ecosystem; US Army acceleration program for commercial technology integration; collaboration with law enforcement and customs agencies

Notable customers

Government organizations across the U.S., Israel, and allied nations (specific agencies not disclosed); participates in US Army technology acceleration program; works with law enforcement and customs agencies

Major milestones

Founded April 2023; Seed round closed September 2023 led by TLV Partners; Platform operational within months of founding processing real wartime data after October 7, 2023 attack; Joined Oracle Defense Ecosystem; Selected for US Army technology acceleration program; May 2026: emerged from stealth with $60M total funding ($31M Series B led by PSG Equity); expanding US operations from Washington, D.C.

Growth metrics

45-50 employees (May 2026), planning to double headcount by end of 2026; 40% women in workforce; one-third of board female; enterprise subscription model with pricing based on mission scope, data volumes, and support requirements

Market positioning

Pioneer of the new User-Generated Field Intelligence (UGFI) category, positioned as a pure video-first intelligence platform distinct from traditional video analytics, open-source intelligence platforms, and generic data-fusion tools. Focused exclusively on government/defense missions.

Geographic focus

US market (headquarters in Washington, D.C.) with R&D in Tel Aviv, Israel; serving US, Israeli, and allied nation governments globally

About Noam Friedman

Former senior roles in Israeli intelligence community (Unit 8200, Prime Minister's Office); forward deployments at Palantir Technologies; leadership at Ximus, Q Cyber Technology, and Windward

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