Rownd

Defense AI · AI Agents
1backers · Y Combinator
$2.4Mgrants · 5 grants · CORDIS
50+team · employees, estimated range
17technologies in use

Overview

Deploy agentic edge AI for drones, UxS platforms, and sensors that need to know the task, the why, and what comes next. Rownd runs locally for disconnected, air-gapped, and mission-critical environments.

Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Grants
$2.4M
5 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 15, 2023 Won a grant $74k · CORDIS Oct 1, 2023 Won a grant $97k · CORDIS Sep 20, 2023 Won a grant $1.2M · CORDIS Apr 20, 2022 Won a grant $909k · CORDIS Jan 2022 Went through Y Combinator Apr 12, 2021 Won a grant $39k · CORDIS
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
18 public repositories
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant Dec 2023 $74k — CORDIS
Grant Oct 2023 $97k — CORDIS
Grant Sep 2023 $1.2M — CORDIS
Grant Apr 2022 $909k — CORDIS
Grant Apr 2021 $39k — CORDIS
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
27/100
Slowing
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
30 days
faster than 45% of the market
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
100% ▼

Financials

Total raised
$2.4M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2023 $74k Details
Grant 2023 $97k Details
Grant 2023 $1.2M Details
Grant 2022 $909k Details
Grant 2021 $39k Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Rownd over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Python
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA
OpenCV
PyTorch
TensorFlow
TensorFlow C++
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Developer tools
Copilot
Cursor
TensorRT
AI & ML
CLIP
DINOv2
YOLO
Practices & domains
Computer Vision
Quantization
Synthetic Data
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Connections

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Shared investors1
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6311 portfolio companies

News

News sky.com 11 months ago
Rownd a Rownd
Following the everyday lives of young people in and around the Welsh town of Menai Bridge, as they navigate various challenges encountered in school…
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News TechCrunch 2 years ago
Taking a closer look at the Rownd tabletop CNC lathe
I've been keeping an eye on the Rownd tabletop CNC lathe since it showed up on Kickstarter last year, and I was psyched to get the chance to see it in
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News X (formerly Twitter) 3 years ago
Carolina Code Conference (@CodesCarolina) on X
"From Carolina to Y Combinator: Lessons Learned Getting Into YC" // @CodesCarolina 2023 by @mhamann of @RowndHQ #ycombinator @ycombinator @YCstartups @ycombinatornews @StartupGVLSC #fundraising #acceleratoralumni
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News bbc.com 6 years ago
Coronavirus: S4C's Pobol y Cwm and Rownd a Rownd back on TV
Filming of Pobol y Cwm and Rownd a Rownd for S4C resumes after being halted during lockdown.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Raleigh United States
HQ
Earlier presence
Milwaukee, United States 1 open roles · last posting Sep 2026