{"id":247374,"date":"2026-11-14T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/ukrainian-founded-drone-maker-uforce-raises-700-million-at-6-billion-valuation"},"modified":"2026-11-14T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T01:08:41","slug":"ukrainian-founded-drone-maker-uforce-raises-700-million-at-6-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/ukrainian-founded-drone-maker-uforce-raises-700-million-at-6-billion-valuation","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian-founded drone maker UForce raises $700 million at $6 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ukrainian-founded defense technology company UForce has raised $700 million in a Series A funding round that values it at $6 billion, as it seeks to expand production of unmanned systems for Ukraine and its allies, the company announced on Nov. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The investment highlights the international appetite for Ukraine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/tech-defense\/\">defense tech<\/a>, as the war has accelerated the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/drones\/\">drones<\/a> and robotic systems. The investment will help UForce expand production for Ukraine and supply allied countries with systems suited to modern warfare, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>UForce is headquartered in London, with offices in Kyiv and Washington, D.C. It develops uncrewed systems for air, land and sea operations, as well as software to control them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian-founded defense technology company UForce has raised $700 million in a Series A funding round that values it at $6 billion, as it seeks to expand production of unmanned systems for Ukraine and its allies, the company announced on Nov. 12. The investment highlights the international appetite for Ukraine\u2019s defense tech, as the war has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}