STARK 🇩🇪
Advanced defense systems including loitering munitions, unmanned surface vessels, and command and control software for multi-domain operations.
About STARK
The company specializes in advanced defense systems, including loitering munitions, unmanned surface vessels, and command and control software designed for multi-domain operations. Their technologies emphasize rapid development and scalability, with a significant investment in research and development to enhance innovation and capability.
STARK is a Germany-based company founded in 2024, now around 175 people. It has raised $646.3M in disclosed funding, starting with a Series A in 2024. FundFinder classes it as Defence.
Founded by Sven Kruck (Co-Founder; repeat founder; previously Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces), Deloitte; ESB Business School, Reutlingen University), Florian Seibel (Co-Founder; repeat founder; previously ARX Robotics, Airbus Helicopters; Heeresfliegerwaffenschule, Bückeburg), Dr. André Schneider (Chief Operating Officer; previously Hengeler Mueller, Razor Group; Durham University), Johannes Schaback (Co-Founder; repeat founder; previously Acrolinx, Fraunhofer FIRST; Technische Universität Berlin), Uwe Horstmann (Founder & Chief Executive Officer; repeat founder; previously Project A Ventures; University of Stuttgart).
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Series C · Jun 2026
Project A Ventures- Project A Ventures — Project A is a Berlin- and London-based operational VC firm that invests at pre-seed and seed, and even earlier at the idea stage through its Studio model. · cheques £1M – £10M
Funding history
● rounds tracked in this directory · ○ earlier rounds web-verified from public announcements. Amounts as announced; undisclosed rounds omitted.