Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In (Mike Stone/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentagon-pressure-move-ai-faster-drives-smacks-new-funding-round-ceo-says-2026-08-17/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260819/i1.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260819/p1#a260819p1" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mike Stone / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentagon-pressure-move-ai-faster-drives-smacks-new-funding-round-ceo-says-2026-08-17/">Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military &hellip; </p>