Defense is operating in an environment where the pace of change continues to increase. Adversaries are adapting quickly and technology development cycles are becoming shorter. The boundaries between physical and digital operations are also becoming harder to define, while military commanders have more information available to them than ever before.
The bottleneck on sophisticated cyber operations that target nation states is breaking. Conducting a large-scale cyber attack used to mean scaling expert talent.
Nigerian defense tech company Terra Industries has raised a record-breaking $52 million in seed funding, believed to be the largest by an African startup. Founded in 2024, it produces drones for air and land surveillance and defense and has released an operating system to handle threat detection and collect data across connected systems.
