Epirus announced today an oversubscribed $250 million Series D fundraising round, bringing the company's total venture ...

Epirus’ Leonidas is system is a ground-based, directed energy weapon that fires off an electromagnetic pulse to disable swarms of drones, or it can neutralize precision targets.

Demonstration shows how Epirus can freeze drone swarms in their tracks with its high-power microwave technology ...

Epirus’ flagship product is Leonidas, which beams high-powered electromagnetic pulses at drones as it moves across the ...

That's why Epirus built Leonidas™—a solid-state, software-defined, high-energy HPM system that delivers unmatched electronic warfare capabilities. Tested and proven as a scalable counter-swarm ...

Read about the $250 million Series D funding round closed by Epirus to advance the production of its Leonidas high-power microwave defense capability.

The seven-year-old startup is pushing to further develop and make more of its Leonidas system, which works to fire lasers and other pulses at adversaries' drones.

"It’s kind of like a Star Trek shield," Lonsdale, founder of Epirus and a co-founder of fast-rising defense technology company Palantir, explained of its Leonidas counter-drone system.

Epirus did not disclose its valuation for this round. The company was previously valued at $1.35 billion when it raised $200 ...