Smack Technologies, co-founded by two MARSOC veterans, has raised $32 million in seed and Series A funding to scale the first frontier AI lab for national security and deliver Decision Dominance to the U.S. Department of War.
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Smack Technologies, the first frontier AI lab for national security, today announced it has secured $32 million in funding through Series A to deliver Decision Dominance to the U.S. Department of War (DoW), its allies, and partners. Geodesic Capital and Costanoa Ventures led the Series A round, with participation from Point72 Ventures, Felicis, First In, Scribble Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Washington Harbour Partners, Palumni VC, Fulcrum Venture Group, Anomaly Fund, and Fortitude Ventures. Its initial seed round was led by Point72 Ventures.
As the first frontier AI lab for national security, Smack Technologies is building domain-specific AI models powered by deep reinforcement learning for the singular purpose of either deterring WWIII or winning it if necessary. The company’s dual product suites, Omega and Alpha, are designed to fundamentally break down decision-making silos within the DoW, enabling campaign-informed planning in seconds across all time horizons: one to six months in the future, one to four days in the future, and right now.
Smack has already secured contracts with multiple branches of the U.S. armed forces, including the Joint Fires Network (JFN) and the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL). With this new funding, the company will rapidly expand its technical leadership and scale up research and development of its product suites, models, and applications to serve all branches of the military.
Smack was co-founded by Andrew Markoff and Clint Alanis, two MARSOC veterans with more than twenty years of combined combat experience.
Their extensive time serving in the Marine Corps taught them that, after two decades of fighting the War on Terror, the U.S. is not fully prepared to deter or win a potential WWIII against a peer adversary. Doing so will require (1) reestablishing the military industrial base, (2) rapidly scaling autonomous systems, and (3) enabling Decision Dominance: the ability to analyze unprecedented amounts of multimodal sensor data in real time and convert those analyses into the right decisions across the Kill Chain faster than our adversaries. Smack was founded specifically to enable Decision Dominance.
“In the short term, Decision Dominance will be the deciding factor in preventing WWIII because it’s the only achievable goal before 2027,” said Smack Co-Founder and CEO Andrew Markoff. “Not enough has changed in how we run our decision-making processes in over a decade. In the age of AI and autonomous systems, that’s a significant problem. Solving it will require combining multiple extremely complex technologies to develop reasoning models rooted in physics that can make complex time-space calculations with precious resources in seconds. That’s what we’re building.”
In addition to Geodesic Capital and Costanoa Ventures, which led the Series A, Smack welcomes new investors Scribble Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Washington Harbour Partners, and Fortitude Ventures. This collective group of deep-tech innovators reflects the critical need to achieve Decision Dominance in high-stakes environments where speed and accuracy are the difference between deterring conflict and losing positioning.
“Andrew and his team demonstrate a level of technical leadership and operational judgment that very few achieve,” said Greg Sands, Founder & Managing Partner at Costanoa Ventures. “They’re applying that experience to one of the most critical challenges in national security today: achieving true decision advantage. Smack brings together a deep understanding of sensors and complex systems, physics-based modeling, and advanced reinforcement learning to enable planning, adaptation, and real-time decision-making under pressure, meaningfully changing how critical decisions get made when it matters most.”
“By embedding national security domain expertise directly into AI models, Smack is building the frontier AI lab that delivers an intelligence layer focused on protecting our country and allies,” said Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka, Partner at Geodesic Capital.
For more information about Smack Technologies, visit www.smacktechnologies.com.
About Smack Technologies
Smack Technologies is the first frontier AI lab built for national security, delivering Decision Dominance for the U.S. DoW. Co-founded in 2024 by MARSOC veterans, Smack is building domain-specific AI models powered by deep reinforcement learning for the singular purpose of either deterring WWIII or winning it if necessary. The company’s dual product suites, Omega and Alpha, are designed to fundamentally break down decision-making silos within the DoW, enabling campaign-informed planning in seconds across all time horizons for the U.S., its allies, and partners. Smack is hiring engineers and researchers. Visit https://smacktechnologies.com/contact to get in touch.
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