We’re excited to announce our fund’s investment in the seed round of Scout AI, which has just officially emerged from stealth with the mission to build the robotic foundation model for defense and bring Silicon Valley-grade autonomy to the U.S. military.
The Seed Round
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Scout AI raised an oversubscribed $15M Seed round led by Align Ventures and Booz Allen Hamilton’s CVC, with participation from Monte Carlo Capital, FJ Labs, Draper VC, Bravo Victor, and others.
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Announcing Fury the first Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model purpose-built for defense robotics.
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Selected for two DoD contracts to deploy Fury in real-world environments.
AI for Defense
Fury represents a step-function advance in autonomy: a multimodal, mission-adaptive foundation model that enables any robotic system air, land, sea, or space to act as an intelligent, autonomous agent. It understands natural language, processes its environment, and issues real-time motor commands even in GPS- and comms-denied environments.
The Founders
Founded by Colby Adcock, a seasoned defense-focused private equity investor and board member of $40Bio company Figure AI, co-founded by his brother Brett), and Collin Otis, formerly Head of AI at Uber and the architect of Kodiak’s military autonomy unit, whom Colby describes as “the smartest autonomy and AI mind I have ever met”. Colby’s brother, Brett Adcock is also an early investor and sits on Scout’s board.
The Vision
Scout aims to support every branch of the military with scalable robotic autonomy. The team is already working with the U.S. Army, DARPA, SOCOM, and others driving toward a more intelligent, deterrent-first military capability.
