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Rownd

Rownd AI builds fully autonomous drones that use local edge intelligence and global LTE/5G/SatCom failover to eliminate the 1:1 pilot bottleneck anywhere on earth or space. We are currently field-deployed with active customers across U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) via our defense business line, ArcEdge AI. Operating out of Raleigh, NC and Wisconsin, we leveraged our team's background in mobile hardware optimization and zero-trust architectures to build true cognitive autonomy directly o

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2026-07-15
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Rownd AI builds fully autonomous drones that use local edge intelligence and global LTE/5G/SatCom failover to eliminate the 1:1 pilot bottleneck anywhere on earth or space. We are currently field-deployed with active customers across U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) via our defense business line, ArcEdge AI. Operating out of Raleigh, NC and Wisconsin, we leveraged our team's background in mobile hardware optimization and zero-trust architectures to build true cognitive autonomy directly o

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Rownd is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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local edge intelligence5Gzero-trust architecturesactive customersglobal LTE/5G/SatCom failoverRownd AISatCom failoverglobal LTEmobile hardware optimization
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Companies similar to Rownd

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Seeing Systems

match 80

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shared extracted concept terms: hardware; shared product terms: autonomou, drone, earth, currently; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Greywing

match 58

Greywing is a platform for ship operators to automate their business, through actionable intelligence, better data and communication. Greywing today serves three product lines to customers: *Flotilla* is a monitoring tool for vessels, enabling vessel managers to identify fleet-level patterns and optimizations and to identify risk and liability vectors in advance. *CRY4* is an operational tool for individual vessels that allows crew managers, security officers and masters to gather intelligence a

shared extracted concept terms: customer, intelligence; shared product terms: intelligence, line, customer, optimization; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

DeepAware AI (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley)

match 56

DeepAware (Robotics Center of Silicon Valley, https://roboticscenter.ai/) is the fastest way for enterprises and researchers to get robots and robotics parts in the US — 72-hour delivery or Bay Area pickup. Beyond hardware, we help teams collect teleoperation data, build reinforcement learning environments, and deploy robots into production. Customers include AI labs, industrial operations, research teams, and event producers.

shared extracted concept terms: hardware; shared product terms: hardware, deploy, customer, operation; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

BeeSafe AI

match 56

BeeSafe AI is building the frontier model layer for social engineering defense. Cyberattacks have moved from code to conversation: attackers now use AI to carry out long-term, trust-based manipulation across SMS, voice, email, and social platforms, often inside encrypted channels where defenders cannot see, detect, or stop them. BeeSafe changes that by deploying undercover AI agents that engage attackers directly, expose hidden infrastructure, and convert live adversarial conversations into acti

shared extracted concept terms: trust; shared product terms: defense, out, trust, deploy; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Openmart

match 37

Local business data intelligence platform

shared extracted concept terms: local, intelligence; shared product terms: local, intelligence; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Armada IQ

match 34

Shaping a hybrid autonomous future, where autonomy integrates with humanity through trust.

shared extracted concept terms: trust; shared product terms: autonomou, autonomy, trust