Terra Industries
About
About Terra Industries
Terra Industries builds an integrated security stack around ArtemisOS, which combines data from fixed sensors, autonomous aircraft and ground vehicles for detecting, tracking and responding to activity around critical infrastructure. Kallon is a six-metre, solar-powered sentry tower with edge AI, 360-degree pan-tilt-zoom coverage and an IP67 enclosure for continuous monitoring at borders, mines and pipelines.
The vehicle range includes Archer, a carbon-fibre VTOL aircraft with a four-hour endurance and 20-kilogram payload capacity, and Iroko, a smaller modular quadcopter for first response and data collection. Duma extends the architecture onto an unmanned ground vehicle. Terra develops the hardware and software in Africa and is expanding production through a second Pax factory in Ghana, planned to manufacture as many as 50,000 aerial systems by 2028.
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Funding
- 2026-08-17 - Seed extension - $18M - Terra Industries adds $18 million to close $52 million seed round
Terra Industries added US$18 million to close a US$52 million cumulative seed round, funding expansion of its Ghana drone factory and international operations. - source: tectonicdefense.com
- 2026-02-16 - funding extension - $22M - Terra Industries raises an additional $22M to expand autonomous security systems across Africa
source: techcrunch.com
- 2026-01-12 - Seed - $11.8M - Terra Industries emerges from stealth with an $11.75M seed round
source: terraindustries.co
Investors
- 8VC - Participant - Unknown - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-01-12 - latest 2026-08-17
- Nova Global - Participant - VC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-01-12 - latest 2026-08-17
- Silent Ventures - Participant - VC - 3 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-01-12 - latest 2026-08-17
- Belief Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-02-16 - latest 2026-08-17
- Lux Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-01-12 - latest 2026-02-16
- SV Angel - Participant - Angel / Individual - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2026-01-12 - latest 2026-08-17
- Leblon Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-12
- Norleo Space Investments - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-17
- Resilience17 Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-16
- Tofino Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-16
- Valor Equity Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-12
Team
- Nathan Nwachuku - Co-Founder and CEO
- Maxwell Maduka - Co-Founder and Chief Engineer
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-14 - Contract Award - Terra Industries wins $1 million autonomous-security contract from Anka Metals
The award is the first contract under a broader security partnership spanning Anka Metals’ mining portfolio. The initial deployment covers autonomous surveillance and site-protection systems for the Jema’a project. Terra says its commercial security offering uses the same autonomy stack developed for defence customers.
Source - 2026-08-17 - Funding - Terra Industries adds $18 million to close $52 million seed round
8VC, Silent Ventures, Nova Global, Belief Capital and SV Angel participated alongside new investor Norleo Space Investments. The capital will support expansion of Terra’s Pax-2 drone factory in Accra, Ghana, and its international operating footprint. Pax-2 spans 34,000 square feet and is intended to scale annual aerial-system capacity toward 50,000 units by 2028.
Source - 2026-03-02 - Partnership - Terra Industries signs a joint venture with DICON to localize advanced defence manufacturing in Nigeria
Reporting says Terra entered a joint venture with Nigeria's Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, with the new vehicle structured as a DICON subsidiary jointly promoted by both parties. This is the clearest public manufacturing/industrial partnership signal surfaced for Terra so far.
Source - 2026-02-16 - Funding - Terra Industries raises an additional $22M to expand autonomous security systems across Africa
Terra raised an additional $22M roughly one month after its seed announcement, bringing the total capital in the broader financing cycle to about $34M. The company said the new capital would expand manufacturing capacity, accelerate deployments in Nigeria and other African countries, and grow engineering and software teams. Coverage also says Terra had already won its first federal contract and was generating commercial revenue from infrastructure-protection deployments.
Source - 2026-01-12 - Funding - Terra Industries emerges from stealth with an $11.75M seed round
Terra announced its emergence from stealth alongside an $11.75M seed round to build autonomous systems for protecting critical infrastructure. The release ties the capital to scaling manufacturing, expanding deployment, and deepening Terra's vertically integrated security stack across land, air, and fixed systems. The company said its systems were already protecting more than $11B of infrastructure assets across energy and mining sites in Nigeria and Ghana.
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Relations
Relationships
- Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria
Partner - Terra Industries has a public partnership relationship with Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria focused on partner.
Commercial
- Terra Industries wins $1 million autonomous-security contract from Anka Metals
2026-09-14 · Order / contract · Terra Industries received a $1 million phase-one contract to deploy autonomous surveillance and site-protection systems at Anka Metals’ Jema’a mining project in Kaduna, Nigeria.
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