Post by Draper Associates

We co-led Scout AI's $100M Series A. Scout is building "Fury", an AI model trained to operate and command military assets on actual military terrain, with real vehicles, running real missions. They’ve secured $11M in DoD contracts already and are one of 20 autonomy companies embedded with the Army's 1st Cavalry Division. They’re on track to deploy with the unit in 2027. Colby Adcock and Collin Otis are training models in the field with unpredictable environments and against real-world constraints. That's the kind of hard problem we've always backed. Tesla before EVs were taken seriously. SpaceX before private launch was real. Coinbase when crypto was a punchline. Scout is early. The problem is enormous. And the founders are obsessed. That's the pattern we look for.