Overland AI

Overland AI is a defense company, founded and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, that builds ground-vehicle autonomy for the US military. Its two core products are OverDrive, an on-vehicle autonomy stack, and OverWatch, a command-and-control system that lets operators direct autonomous vehicles.

Overland fields these on ULTRA uncrewed ground vehicles for missions including counter-unmanned-aircraft-systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, contested logistics and resupply, and breaching. The technology grew out of DARPA's RACER program, focused on high-speed off-road autonomy, which completed in November 2025.

The company raised a 32 million dollar Series A in January 2025 and a 100 million dollar round in February 2026 led by 8VC, with Point72 Ventures, Valor, and StepStone participating, including 20 million dollars of venture debt. It has worked with the 82nd Airborne, 1st Cavalry, 173rd Airborne, and Marines and SOCOM, and in June 2026 won a Pentagon contract to produce autonomous ground vehicles for the Marine Corps.

Honest framing: arming an uncrewed ground vehicle would raise lethal-autonomy questions, though current missions keep operators in the loop. Contested-environment off-road autonomy has largely been demonstrated in exercises rather than sustained combat, and the company is at an earlier stage where scale production is unproven.