Tycho
Artificial Intelligence
$19.8Mtotal raised · 6 rounds on record
8open roles
$8Mlatest round · Convertible Note · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
$1.4Mgrants · 3 grants · CORDIS
Overview
Tycho.AI delivers AI-powered autonomous intelligence that acts independently, adapts in real time, and drives mission outcomes at the edge.
How Tycho hires
Truth index
C 58/100
Ghost roles
70%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Tycho scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 70% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$19.8M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$8M
Convertible Note · May 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
10
open roles
Grants
$1.4M
3 grants · CORDIS
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
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
May 1
Raised a round Convertible Note $8M · SEC Form D
Jul 14, 2025
Won a grant $229k · CORDIS
Mar 31, 2025
Raised a round Series A $9.8M · SEC Form D
Sep 27, 2024
Won a grant $150k · CORDIS
Jun 27, 2024
Won a grant $1M · CORDIS
Nov 1, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $2M · SEC Form D
2022
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | May 2026 | $8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Jul 2025 | $229k | — | CORDIS |
| Series A | Mar 2025 | $9.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Sep 2024 | $150k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Jun 2024 | $1M | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Nov 2022 | $2M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Tycho AI Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Sertac KaramanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Thomas KenneyExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
32/100
Slowing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
38 days
faster than 35% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
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.
Hardware
25% ▼
Operations
25% ▼
Industrial Engineering
25% ▼
Aerospace
25% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
People
Sertac Karaman
Executive Officer, Director
Thomas Kenney
Executive Officer, Director
Jamie Goldstein
Director
Richard Clarke
Director
Amish Jani
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Tycho over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
42
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
C++
Python
Bash
Embedded C
Frameworks & libraries
ROS2
ArduPilot
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Cloud & platforms
Linux
GitHub Actions
RTOS
AI & ML
Gaussian Splatting
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News
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Tycho's Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2026
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Tycho.AI Secures $2M AFRL TACFI Contract to Advance Maritime Autonomy in GPS-Denied Environments
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Tycho.AI Validates Halley VTOL UAS with Successful C-UAS and One-Way Attack Demonstrations at T-REX 26-2
Halley Soars at T-REX 26-2 Tycho.AI's Halley Group 1 VTOL flies during T-REX 26-2 demonstration held at Camp Atterbury, IN, May 4-15. Credit: Tycho.AI Cambridge, MA, May 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Earlier this month, Tycho.AI successfully validated its
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Tycho.AI Validates Halley VTOL UAS with Successful C-UAS and One-Way Attack Demonstrations at T-REX 26-2
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Tycho.AI Validates Halley VTOL UAS with Successful C-UAS and One-Way Attack Demonstrations at T-REX 26-2
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Scientists Probed a Medieval Alchemist's Artifacts-and Found an Element That Changes History
Scientists analyzed artifacts from Tycho Brahe's lab and found tungsten, an element unknown in his time, rewriting our understanding of historical alchemy.
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Tycho.AI: $10 Million Series A Raised For Advancing Mission-Resilient Autonomy For Unmanned Systems
Tycho.AI, a leading unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology company specializing in resilient navigation and AI systems for autonomous vehicles, has raised $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate product development and scale government deployments
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cambridge
Cambridge
United States
HQ
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10 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff
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