British defence tech startup Mutable Tactics has announced a pre-seed funding round of over $2 million.

Funding Details

The funding round, totaling $2.1 million, was led by spacetech investor Seraphim Space, with participation from the UK’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund, Koro, Entrepreneurs First and Transpose.

Technology

Mutable Tactics is building AI software that acts as a "decision-layer" between the human operator and the drones. This system allows defence forces to leverage multiple drones simultaneously, translating a commander’s instructions into actions. The goal is to enable mixed fleets of drones to operate as a coordinated team, overcoming the limitations imposed by the manual control of a single drone per operator.

Scope

The startup aims to solve the problem of relying on one operator per drone, which limits the number of drones that can be used effectively. In battle environments, where communications are unstable, drone systems that require constant human control quickly reach their limits. The funding will be used to expand the engineering team in Cambridge and accelerate software development, as well as validate the technology in collaboration with two European governments.

Founders

Mutable Tactics was founded in 2024 by Colin MacLeod, a former British Army officer, and Enrique Muñoz de Cote, an AI and robotics specialist.

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