Funding Spherical, led by Israel Development Companions, Validates D-Fend’s Disruptive Place on the Convergence of Protection Expertise, Drones, Cyber, and AI
RA’ANANA, Israel and MCLEAN, Va.,December 4, 2024 — D-Fend Options, the chief in field-proven radio frequency (RF) cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone – takeover know-how, introduced in the present day that it has secured $31M within the preliminary closing of a brand new funding spherical. The spherical was led by Israel Development Companions (IGP), with participation from present investor Vertex Ventures and new investor Vertex Development.
This funding underscores the vital function of D-Fend’s confirmed improvements in enabling full management, security, and continuity for safety businesses in a number of sectors, whereas performing towards frequently rising rogue drone incidents throughout complicated and delicate environments. With this funding spherical, IGP Basic Associate Uri Erde be part of’s D-Fend’s Board of Administrators, becoming a member of present investor board members Yoram Oron of Vertex Ventures and Rami Hadar of Claridge Israel.
The funding will allow D-Fend to solidify its technological management and capabilities, broaden its market attain into new territories and sectors, and advance its means to sort out new and evolving drone dangers. The funding spherical comes on the heels of robust steady year-over-year income progress of over 60% and numerous and balanced growth throughout geographies, sectors, and use circumstances. D-Fend’s international put in base has now reached practically 30 international locations, together with 5 Eyes (FVEY) alliance, G7 and main NATO member states. This funding will additional help efforts to handle consistently altering threats, penetrate extra market segments, combine with extra companions and applied sciences, and set up a stronger international presence for the corporate.
“This funding is a testomony to the belief our buyers have in our imaginative and prescient, know-how, progress, model, and buyer base” stated Zohar Halachmi, CEO and Chairman of D-Fend Options. “The rising measurement, scope, and complexity of rogue drone threats calls for superior, exact, and dependable options. This funding will allow us to proceed innovating and increasing our capabilities, guaranteeing we stay on the forefront of counter-drone know-how, whereas delivering unparalleled management, security and, uniquely,
operational continuity to our international protection, homeland safety, legislation enforcement, airport, and significant infrastructure clients.”
The funding follows an in-depth analysis by IGP, who had beforehand been the only real institutional investor in Cellebrite (NASDAQ: CLBT), the worldwide chief in digital investigation options for public security and safety businesses, previous to its IPO. IGP views D-Fend as a pioneering disruptor working alongside a few of the world’s largest aerospace and protection corporations. By offering its answer to probably the most demanding safety businesses, D-Fend stands out for its groundbreaking RF cyber-takeover know-how, and its means to ship unparalleled security and operational continuity.
“D-Fend Options matches the profile and mannequin which we discover very enticing—a class creating firm that develops and deploys deep and defensible know-how to handle threats posed by the mass proliferation of helpful but additionally probably harmful gadgets and merchandise, on this case drones,” stated Uri Erde, Basic Associate of Israel Development Companions. “Their revolutionary strategy to counter-drone safety, drawing upon a multi-disciplinary strategy crossing air protection, digital warfare and cybersecurity domains, mixed with their popularity and confirmed means to ship and meet the wants of militaries, homeland safety, and legislation enforcement businesses, positions them as a market chief in safeguarding delicate environments towards quickly rising drone threats.”
D-Fend’s flagship know-how, EnforceAir, employs RF cyber-takeover methods to soundly neutralize rogue drones with out collateral harm or operational disruption in a extremely managed and surgical method. Acknowledged by Booz Allen Hamilton as an innovator for its cyber takeover effector inside the high rising protection and safety know-how of non-kinetic counter-UAS, D-Fend Options has led cyber-takeover as a definite and important know-how class inside this area. Deployed on an enormous
scale and hailed by protection institutions as a hit, EnforceAir protects delicate environments—together with navy zones, airports, vital infrastructure, prisons, and public occasions—guaranteeing operational continuity and security in even probably the most difficult situations.
About D-Fend Options
D-Fend Options is the main counter-drone, cyber-takeover know-how supplier, enabling full management, security, and continuity throughout rogue drone incidents throughout complicated and delicate environments to beat each present and rising drone threats. With 1000’s of profitable deployments carried out worldwide, in probably the most difficult real-life situations and for probably the most demanding finish customers, EnforceAir, the corporate’s core providing, focuses on probably the most harmful drone threats in navy, public security, airport, jail, main occasion, vital infrastructure, and different environments. D-Fend Options’ know-how has been chosen as best-in-class and is deployed by top-tier U.S. authorities businesses – together with with U.S. navy, federal legislation enforcement, and homeland safety – in addition to main worldwide airports globally. EnforceAir autonomously executes RF cyber-takeovers of rogue drones for protected landings and managed outcomes, guaranteeing the sleek stream of communications, commerce, transportation, and on a regular basis life.
About Israel Development Companions:
Israel Development Companions (IGP) is a know-how progress fund, empowering distinctive tech corporations at progress stage and supporting robust administration groups as they attempt to construct massive international corporations and turn out to be class leaders. We offer our corporations with progress capital, strategic steerage, and firsthand expertise – all aimed in the direction of accelerated progress and profitable partnership.
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