Imagine a battlefield where no one sees the bullet coming because it’s wrapped in radiowaves, traveling faster than your command chain can react. That’s where CX2 lives: in the spaces between frequencies, where the future of warfare is already being coded, debugged, and deployed.
Fresh out of El Segundo, CX2 raised $31M in Series A, with Point72 Ventures leading the charge and now stacked at $46M. This isn’t just another defense tech raise, this is a warning shot across the bow of legacy primes. Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, 201 Ventures, Pax Ventures, and Upfront Ventures are all in. It’s because CX2 isn’t trying to play catch-up, they’re building a kill chain that moves faster than doctrine.
Nathan Mintz, CEO, has already steered one directed-energy unicorn (Epirus) and another radar startup (Spartan Radar). He knows how to weaponize tech before it hits Gartner’s radar. Mark Trefgarne, President, flipped adtech into a $500M exit with LiveRail and ran Meta’s AdTech stack. Porter Smith flew Apaches and Little Birds for Army Special Ops before switching to the VC cockpit at a16z. And @Lee Thompson? Built Starship’s comms system at SpaceX and now engineers for the invisible battlefield.
In 12 months, the team jumped from 4 to 20+, expanding into a 15K sq ft R&D lab with anechoic chambers and drone bays. This isn’t just scaling, it’s signal jamming at startup velocity.
The tech? Think AI that hunts emitters across 200 MHz to 40 GHz. Think software-defined EW systems that cost less than $50K per unit, not $80M like the Growler jets they outperform in field coverage. This is attritable warfare, send it, lose it, deploy again.
CX2’s kill chain? Identify threats, classify, and cue loitering munitions, all while edgeAI keeps humming in GPS-denied zones. It's modular, autonomous, and plug-and-play across land, air, sea, and space. Their systems integrate with DoD platforms like ATAK, which means real-time visualization.
You want proof? They’re already running ops with the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division under the "transforming-in-contact" initiative. That’s not theory, that’s boots-on-the-ground adoption.
Electronic warfare isn’t a side show anymore. The Ukraine conflict made it clear, if you control the spectrum, you own the battlefield. CX2’s trajectory makes it more Anduril than aspirant, more Palantir than prototype. They’re aiming for full-spectrum dominance without the 5-year procurement death cycle.
This is about outpacing, outlearning, and outcoding the enemy, on hardware that updates over Kubernetes and software that thinks in real-time.
So yeah, CX2 just raised $31M. But what they’re building? A future where warfare is silent, autonomous, and decided before the first missile leaves the rail.
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