Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company building mission autonomy software and defense aircraft. Its core product, Hivemind, is AI-enabled mission autonomy software proven across crewed and uncrewed platforms. It allows customers to build, test, and deploy autonomy with greater speed, lower cost, and reduced integration complexity. Hivemind supports operations in GNSS- and communications-contested environments, enabling platforms to perform dynamic, real-world missions without reliance on external control links. Through Hivemind Enterprise, partners can develop and field intelligent behaviors across multi-domain systems.
Shield AI also offers the Hivemind Vision product line, which delivers AI-enabled wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) for real-time detection and tracking in complex environments. V-BAT, Shield AI’s flagship platform, is a Group 3 single-engine, ducted-fan VTOL UAS with over 12 hours of endurance. Designed, tested, and deployed for the electronic warfare battlefield and proven in Ukraine, it delivers combat-proven, expeditionary surveillance and targeting at a fraction of the cost and logistics of larger drones. It launches and recovers without assistance from ship decks, rooftops, and austere terrain— no runway, catapult, or net required. V-BAT is being adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Coast Guard, and international customers amid rapidly growing global demand.
Shield AI’s newest product, X-BAT is a revolutionary autonomous fighter aircraft, combining VTOL, long range, and combat autonomy to break free from legacy constraints like runways and carrier decks. Powered by Hivemind, X-BAT delivers scalable, survivable combat mass in contested environments, operating as a drone wingman while freeing human aviators for missions that demand judgment. At a fraction of the cost of legacy fighters, with multirole core mission systems and modular payloads, X-BAT gives the U.S. and its allies unmatched flexibility, resilience, and deterrence. Shield AI maintains a global presence, with offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific.
