Anduril alums-founded Rune Technologies just secured $24 million in Series A funding to deal with defense world’s logistics. This is Rune’s second raise since February, bringing their total funding in the past year to over $30 million.
The round was led by Human Capital, with support from Pax VC and Washington Harbour Partners. Rune’s earlier backers including Andreessen Horowitz, Point72 Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, and Forward Deployed VC also participated.
The company is developing AI-powered software that helps armed forces move faster, smarter, and with better foresight especially in high-stakes, contested environments. Defense teams can better understand what’s there, what’s required next, and how to get there quickly using Rune’s platform, which is designed for frontline operations.
“Our mission is to bring military logistics sophistication in line with the prowess of our fighting capabilities,” said David Tuttle, co-founder and CEO of Rune Technologies in their blogpost. “We’ve seen significant demand from across the services for a product that can replace the whiteboards and spreadsheets that are currently used to track logistics operationally. This investment will allow us to accelerate our deployment of TyrOS to sustainers across the joint force.”
With this new funding, they’re scaling up both in talent and reach so as to deliver next-gen logistics that match the speed and complexity of today’s military needs. According to Tuttle, about two-thirds of the team at Rune are veterans, which shapes how they build for real-world military needs.
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One of their next big steps is weaving generative AI into TyrOS to help with “course of action generation,” planning. Instead of relying on far-off servers to process data, Rune’s TyrOS puts real intelligence directly where it’s needed. This means critical decisions can be made on the ground, even in low-connectivity or fully disconnected environments. And later on, everything synchronizes when communication is reestablished.
“Rune is solving the perennial problem of anticipating, planning and executing military logistics in dynamic, high-tempo and contested environments,” explained retired Major General Duane Gamble, former Army G4.
“The U.S. military runs on Excel spreadsheets and whiteboards and manual processes right now to execute logistics operations,” Tuttle told TechCrunch, emphasizing on the need of this platform.
Tuttle started out as a field artillery officer in the U.S. Army and later served with Joint Special Operations Command. After that, he joined Anduril where he crossed paths with Peter Goldsborough, a former software engineer at Meta. The two paired to launch Rune after witnessing firsthand how modern combat demands a completely different level of speed and scale when it comes to sustaining military operations.
Anduril Industries is currently led by co-founder and CEO Brian Schimpf, who’s been running the company through its rapid rise in the defense tech space. In June 2025, Anduril raised $2.5 billion in Series G funding, its largest round yet, with Founders Fund leading the investment. The new capital puts the company’s valuation at over $30 billion which is more than double its value from less than a year ago.
Anduril has steadily expanded its footprint across both autonomous hardware and mission software, securing major military contracts and building out its advanced manufacturing capabilities. The company is also investing heavily in a massive new production campus in Ohio, a sign that it’s positioning itself not just as a defense tech innovator, but as a serious rival to traditional defense giants.