Saildrone offers autonomous, renewable‑powered unmanned surface vehicles that provide persistent, wide‑area maritime intelligence and kinetic payload capabilities. Their AI‑driven sensor suites collect and stream real‑time surface, subsurface, and environmental data via secure APIs, while a fully managed Mission‑as‑a‑Service model handles deployment, operation, and recovery for defense, coast‑guard, and other government agencies.
Funding
$60M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
7OEAFounders
Product
Problem
Maritime forces lack persistent, wide-area intelligence in remote or contested ocean regions, and traditional manned vessels are costly, limited in endurance, and expose personnel to risk. Detecting, tracking, and responding to surface, subsurface, and environmental threats in real time is therefore constrained by platform availability and operational costs.
Solution
Saildrone provides autonomous, renewable‑powered unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) that operate for months at sea without crew, delivering continuous maritime domain awareness, undersea detection, and oceanographic mapping. Integrated AI and advanced sensor suites—including radar, EO/IR, AIS, acoustic and sub‑bottom profilers—collect and fuse data, which is streamed via secure APIs or a mission portal into customers’ command systems. The fully managed Mission‑as‑a‑Service model handles deployment, operation, and maintenance, allowing defense and government agencies to obtain real‑time, decision‑grade intelligence and kinetic payload effects without capital acquisition or personnel risk.
Target Audience
Primary customers are naval and coast‑guard forces, defense agencies, and allied government entities that require persistent maritime surveillance, anti‑submarine warfare, and oceanographic intelligence, as well as civilian agencies conducting border monitoring, illegal‑fishing detection, and seafloor mapping.
Features
- Dual‑propulsion (wind‑sail wing plus electric/diesel) enabling silent endurance up to 8,000 nm at 12 knots and high‑speed sprint up to 27 knots (Spectre variant)
- Modular payload capacity (up to 70 t, 2×40‑ft containers) for sensors, communications, or kinetic effectors
- Integrated multi‑sensor suite: radar, EO/IR cameras, AIS receiver, passive/active acoustics, sub‑bottom profiler, METOC instruments
- AI‑driven onboard processing for real‑time detection, classification, and tracking of surface and subsurface contacts
- 24/7/365 data delivery via secure API, mission portal, and edge‑processed streams compatible with common operating pictures
- Fully managed service model covering mission planning, logistics, vehicle operation, and post‑mission recovery
- Renewable energy operation (wind and solar) reducing carbon footprint and operational cost