Arondite
About
About Arondite
Arondite develops Cobalt, a mission-orchestration platform that connects defence sensors, autonomous vehicles, effectors, operational data and human units. It creates a common operating picture from live and stored information, then supports terrain analysis, route and boundary planning, digital orders, threat prioritisation and coordinated tasking across land, maritime and air assets.
Cobalt translates an operator's intent into actions for mixed human-machine teams while synchronising timings and deconflicting movement in congested operating areas. Its open architecture integrates third-party robotic platforms, satellite feeds, classification models, communications and existing command systems. The software supports counter-UAS, reconnaissance-strike, site-security and hybrid naval missions. It is being implemented by the UK's 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team and has been used with the Royal Navy's Maritime Big Play exercises to coordinate crewed and uncrewed assets, moving the platform beyond simulation into active military experimentation and adoption.
Funding
- 2025-05-01 - $12M - Arondite raises $12M for human-machine teaming software
Arondite raised $12 million to build software that connects drones, robots, sensors, and other autonomous systems for human-machine teaming. - source: indexventures.com
Team
- Will Blyth - Co-Founder and CEO - Leads Arondite's defence autonomy and mission-orchestration business.
- Rob Underhill - Co-Founder and CTO - Leads Arondite's engineering organization.
Timeline
Events
- 2025-05-01 - Funding - Arondite raises $12M for human-machine teaming software
Index Ventures backed the company, which was founded by Will Blyth and Rob Underhill. The platform is aimed at defense and security users that need oversight across disparate autonomous systems. The capital supports commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows as Arondite moves toward broader commercial use.
Source
Context
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Context tags
- Critical infrastructure robotics - Workflow - Arondite works on mission control for autonomous defence systems.