Arondite, has secured a multi-million-pound contract with the Royal Navy to deploy its Cobalt mission orchestration software across the UK Commando Force (UKCF).
Concept Ventures backed Arondite in its $2.5m pre-seed, co-led with Creator Fund in 2024, and since then, it has assembled one of Europe's most talent dense defence, security, and critical infrastructure companies. Their software platform is built around the core 'Cobalt' machine, a piece of technology that is hardware-agnostic, designed to unify autonomous systems and act as a data layer for oversight, analytics, and operational efficiency.
Today, it was announced that UKCF units are implementing the Cobalt platform to further enhance force readiness, planning speed and operational effectiveness by leveraging autonomy, data and AI at unprecedented scale.
Alongside the UKCF contract, Arondite also announced it is expanding to Norway, opening an office in Oslo. The company will invest £35 million over the next five years to scale its work with Norwegian Armed Forces, Norwegian industry and NATO allies.
Congratulations to Will, Rob, and the entire Arondite team on these milestones. We’re proud to be part of the journey and look forward to seeing what comes next.
