Munich-based defence tech startup Alpine Eagle GmbH has raised EUR 10.25 million in seed funding led by IQ Capital. High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Expeditions Fund and Sentris Capital also participated in the round, along with previous investors General Catalyst and HCVC, which led Alpine Eagle’s pre-seed.
Alpine Eagle was founded by CEO Jan-Hendrik Boelens (former Airbus chief engineer, Volocopter CTO, Quantum Systems CTO) and Director Timo Breuer (former Microsoft Research, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft scientist). Their flagship product Sentinel is a hardware-agnostic platform, which can work with off-the-shelf and bespoke uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to detect and neutralise offensive drones.
HTGF says the funding will be used to develop Sentinel, scale its commercial teams and lay the groundwork for international expansion to defend against the growing threat of autonomous warfare.
Alpine Eagle recently participated in an German Federal Armed Forces warfighting experiment, where the Sentinel airborne counter-UAS system was tested in an operational context for the first time. The company also tested a swarm of four sensor UAS, collaborating to detect hostile drones.
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