Echodyne
Designing and building advanced radar solutions
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Security
- Manufacturing
- Totem Lake, Kirkland, WA
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Company mission
To unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays.
Our take
Echodyne builds next-generation radar systems that help make the world a safer and smarter place. By combining advanced physics (metamaterials) with clever software, they've shrunk down high-performance radar (once only found in fighter jets) into devices that can fit in your hand. These radars give drones, vehicles, and security systems better "eyes" in the sky, offering incredibly detailed situational awareness for everything from defence missions to public safety operations.
Their technology is used by governments, defence agencies, and private sector organisations all over the world to protect high-stakes environments. And with systems like EchoGuard and EchoShield, they offer compact, affordable radar solutions that detect and track even hard-to-spot threats, making them a key player in everything from border security to drone delivery.
Recently, they teamed up with Picogrid, integrating their radar into Picogrid's Legion platform, think of it as a kind of "mission control" for data and sensors. This means military and security teams can now access real-time radar data alongside other mission tools, all in one place. It's a huge step forward in unified defence technology, making it easier to see threats, act fast, and stay ahead of modern danger. And with drone activity and airspace challenges only growing, Echodyne is going to be vital for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$135m
LATE VC
Sep 2019
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $199m
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Leadership
Eben Frankenberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an EVP at TerraPower, Intellectual Ventures, and Onyx Software.
Tom Driscoll
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously spent 3 years at Intellectual Ventures as a Consultant and Managing Director and Principle Technologist. Prior to that, they spent 5 years at Duke University as a Research Scientist.