Sanjay Pillai, founder of Kestral

$110M Series B

Kestral

Kestral Raises $110M Series B as Founding Team Ships Dual-Use Edge Autonomy Stack for Contested Environments

  • Defense
  • Edge Autonomy
  • Dual-Use

Founding team building agentic edge software for dual-use autonomy—mission planning, degraded comms, and human-authorized engagement loops with full operational audit.

Sanjay Pillai · ex-Anduril

“Autonomy at the edge is not a demo in a lab. It is software that still decides when the link dies.”

— Founder

“Dual-use edge agents with real discipline are where defense software compounds—Kestral is that stack.”

— Katherine Boyle · a16z American Dynamism