Airis Labs, a startup specialising in artificial intelligence to build state-of-the-art platforms to interpret visual data, has raised $60 million in total funding. Total funds include a $31 million Series B round to scale its presence in global defence and national security markets. PSG Equity led the Series B, with TLV Partners, Stepstone Group, Redseed Ventures, and angel investors including Eyal Waldman participating.
Solving the Chaos of Unstructured Battlefield Data
Airis was founded in April 2023 by defence veterans Noam Friedman, Amos Lahav, and Rotem Abeles to address intelligence bottlenecks. Defence agencies and law enforcement encounter thousands of hours of disconnected video recordings but cannot process them at scale.
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The Airis platform functions as a source-agnostic visual analytics engine. It ingests fragmented feeds from drones, body cams, CCTV, dashboards, smartphones, and social media. Proprietary multimodal models synchronise these sources into a single, machine-readable intelligence picture. Human analysts and AI agents can query this picture in real time using natural language.
Automated indexes on video data sets remove the need for intelligence personnel to manually sit through terabytes of raw archive material as they are accustomed to doing. Airis suggests that its software package can dramatically speed up standard video analysis processes by a factor of 150, bringing together all the functions of numerous isolated digital forensic tools into one user-friendly dashboard.
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From Battlefield Validation to Global Deployment
Unlike standard AI solutions built in isolated labs, the real world birthed the beating heart of Airis Labs. Within months of founding, the startup implanted its platform into operations, improving its neural network with low-res recordings from global flashpoints. These recordings were first-hand shots extracted from mass media after international crises.
This rapid field trial has consequently been translated into a similarly quick commercial traction within the public sector. Airis Labs offers enterprise cybersecurity solutions to federal governments, intelligence agencies, and customs operations globally via a subscription model. The startup has joined the Oracle Defence Ecosystem and is in a US Army acceleration program adopting commercial innovations in federal defence.
