StirlingX

Investor: Ventura Capital, RCM Private Markets Master Fund (managed by Rokos Capital Management US (LP))

StirlingX, a British data intelligence company specializing in sovereign data capabilities for defence and critical national infrastructure, has successfully secured $20 million in Series A funding.Summary of transaction details:Value: $20 million (approximately £16 million)Sector: DeepTech & AI, Security, Data IntelligenceAdvisor: Not mentionedKey Entities: Target: StirlingX; Lead Investors: Ventura Capital, RCM Private Markets Master Fund (managed by Rokos Capital Management US (LP))Location: UKNote: This Series A round will accelerate StirlingX's product development and growth, addressing the critical global demand for secure, sovereign data intelligence capabilities, particularly in defence and critical national infrastructure.

Investor: Ventura Capital and RCM Private Markets Master Fund

StirlingX, a London-based data intelligence company focused on national security and critical infrastructure, has successfully secured £15 million in Series A funding. This investment round was led by Ventura Capital and RCM Private Markets Master Fund, managed by Rokos Capital Management US (LP), and is set to accelerate the development of its sovereign intelligence and autonomy platform.Summary of transaction details:Value: £15,000,000Sector: DeepTech & AI (National Security & Defence)Advisor: Not mentionedKey Entities: Target: StirlingX; Lead Investors: Ventura Capital, RCM Private Markets Master FundLocation: London (Target Company)Note: This Series A funding will enable StirlingX to scale its operations, drive product development, and expand its reach with new and existing partners across critical national infrastructure and defence ministries and agencies, addressing crucial challenges in secure data intelligence.

Investor: Ventura Capital, RCM Private Markets Master Fund

London-headquartered defence intelligence startup StirlingX has successfully raised $20 million (£15 million) in a Series A funding round co-led by Ventura Capital and RCM Private Markets Master Fund (managed by Rokos Capital Management US). Summary of transaction details: Value: $20 million (£15 million) Series A (closed just eight months post-Seed capitalization). Sector: DeepTech & AI / DefenceTech / Critical Infrastructure Security. Advisor / Corporate Board Updates: Sir Jeremy Fleming, former Director of GCHQ and MI5 officer, serves as corporate Chairman. Special security venture builder GALLOS Technologies assisted as an early advisory partner. Key Entities: Target: StirlingX Limited; Lead Investors: Ventura Capital, RCM Private Markets Master Fund; Participating Investors: GALLOS Technologies; Key Founder: Dean Jones (CEO & Founder). Location: London, UK. Note: Founded by special operations veteran Dean Jones alongside security specialists from UK military and intelligence units, StirlingX operates as a advanced data intelligence provider utilizing proprietary unmanned aerial hardware as its edge capture nodes. The platform addresses a critical gap within the "Five Eyes" intelligence network and Western critical infrastructure security: the ability to safely capture, end-to-end encrypt, fuse, and parse real-time sensor streams within highly contested or electronically jammed operational theaters. Its dual-use spectrum-resilient framework allows commercial operators like National Grid to automate complex pipeline surveys, mapping, and construction-phase oversight, while simultaneously serving defense agencies via autonomous counter-UAS (unmanned aerial systems) and hostile drone interception tracking. This oversubscribed $20m round—closing on the back of rapid commercial procurement traction following an initial $11 million seed stage—will fund core international hiring, support localized sovereign data storage expansion, and accelerate product pipelines across foreign ministries of defence.

Investor: new investors, RCM Private Markets Fund