India, Sept. 30 -- Defence tech startup Unmannd has raised $2 Mn (about INR 17.7 Cr) in its pre-seed funding round led by Speciale Invest and Accel.

A large part of the funding will be used to expand the engineering, business development and operations teams, cofounder and CEO Yeshwanth Reddy told Inc42. The startup plans to increase its team size to 40 from 7 employees currently.

Founded in 2025 by Reddy and Hemaditya Prasad, Unmannd is developing autonomous drones for combat and logistics. The startup claims that its full-stack approach combines custom compute hardware, AI-driven autonomy, and multi-agent mesh networking to create drones that can perceive their surroundings, act autonomously and engage faster than adversaries.

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