Co-founded by three Palantir alumni, Kela Technologies does not lack ambition. Its goal is to be the next Israeli defence prime and to build a strong defence tech ecosystem in the country, and its founders have secured backing from A-list funds like Lux Capital, IQT, and Sequoia to achieve it. Building ‘Android for the battlefield’, the solution appears to be integrating civilian and military technology across hardware and software, and the company claims it is already engaged in Israel and elsewhere. In a nod to the founders’ Palantir roots, the technology also ingests data from many sources to provide a unified command interface. As a mark of how it is triangulating its target, Kela acquired an AI fintech startup, Pelanor, last year. LH
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