Helsinki, Finland

NestAI

Defence AI lab building NestOS, a modular battlefield operating system and physical AI for unmanned vehicles and C2.

Lithuanian soldier with Raven drone and ground station, Hohenfels. Photo: U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Eric Perez, Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army).

Latest round€100MVC round, Nov 2025

Total raised~€100M~€100M

Round details

VC round, €100M, Nov 2025.

Opened a Tallinn R&D office in Sep 2026 after a letter of intent with Finnish and Estonian Defence Forces; headcount near 180.

Key figures confirmed by multiple sourcesLast checked 21 October 2026

What does NestAI do?

Defence AI lab building NestOS, a modular battlefield operating system and physical AI for unmanned vehicles and C2.

Where is NestAI based?

NestAI is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 2024.

How much funding has NestAI raised?

Total funding is ~€100M, based on announced and reported rounds. Latest round: VC round, €100M, Nov 2025.

Who are NestAI's investors?

Notable investors include Nokia, Tesi, PostScriptum.

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AI information intelligence platform that automates research and analysis for defence, national security and commercial customers.

Generates procedural synthetic image datasets, RGB and infrared with pixel-perfect labels, to train computer vision models for defence AI.

Builds Cobalt, a hardware-agnostic AI command-and-control layer for orchestrating mixed fleets of drones, robots and sensors.