CHAOS Industries

CHAOS Industries is a defense-technology company, founded around 2022 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, that builds distributed sensing and counter-drone radar. Its core idea is the Coherent Distributed Network: instead of a single large, expensive radar, it networks many low-cost nodes — the HYDRA platform — and fuses their signals with AI.

Running software including the Vanquish radar application and electronic-warfare apps, the company says this networked approach can detect drones and missiles up to roughly 10 minutes earlier than legacy exquisite radars. Its target markets are counter-unmanned-aircraft-systems, border security, and critical-infrastructure defense.

CHAOS raised a 510 million dollar Series D led by Valor Equity Partners, with 8VC and Accel, at a roughly 4.5 billion dollar valuation in November 2025, bringing total funding to over 1 billion dollars. It has also acquired Ziva Corporation, which specializes in wireless time synchronization used to coherently combine signals across distributed nodes.

Honest framing: the '10 minutes faster' figure is a vendor claim that has not been independently benchmarked. CHAOS is a young company whose valuation has grown quickly, ahead of a long public-contract track record, and its sensing and electronic-warfare technology is dual-use and export-controlled.