A European defence AI start-up has launched with one of the largest early-stage defence technology seed rounds in Europe this year, targeting a critical gap in the autonomous weapons development pipeline: the AI training infrastructure that does not yet exist at the scale modern defence programmes require. Agon, a European defence AI company, has launched with $30 million in seed investment, targeting what it describes as the missing layer in Europe’s autonomous weapons ecosystem. Defence organisations worldwide are spending hundreds of billions developing autonomous weapon systems – drones, interceptors and intelligent munitions – but the critical infrastructure to train, validate…
