CFO hired2026-06-12 · Executive changes
Appointment corroborated by company leadership page and archived announcement.
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Operating company · Robotics & autonomy
Atlas Autonomy Systems
Institutional-size autonomy financing, strong thesis fit, repeat filing history, and visible capital acceleration.
Offering$82.5M
Reported sold$61.4M
Reported remaining$21.1M
Reported progress74%
Investors37
First sale2026-08-11
Modeled financing signal
94 — High conviction
Anduril-like defense technology company
Financing probability82%within 9 months
Expected transactionGrowth equity / Series DEstimated raise$150M–$300MPredicted timingQ4 2026 – Q1 2027Weekly change+12 points · SURGING
Why now
$72M DoD award2026-07-18 · Federal contracts
Award record matched to the operating entity; obligations and ceiling remain distinct.
Hiring +63%2026-08-03 · Hiring velocity
Observed opening count accelerated against the retained 90-day baseline.
New manufacturing facility2026-05-21 · Expansion events
Facility event retained from a company-controlled announcement.
23 months since financing2026-09-05 · Financing age
Elapsed time computed from the last verified financing snapshot.
VP Finance hired2026-06-29 · Executive changes
Finance-leadership role appeared in retained team records.
17 new manufacturing roles2026-08-22 · Job openings
Net-new role cohort persisted across two crawls.
6 patent applications2026-07-08 · Patents
Applications matched by assignee and inventor resolution.
Counter-signals
Meaningful government revenue2026-09-05 · Revenue concentration
Contract concentration can reduce urgency or complicate timing.
No fundraising language detected2026-09-05 · Website changes
No explicit raise language found in retained company-controlled pages.
Cluster bonus +13
Finance leadership + contract + capacity expansion
Three independently sourced signals occurred inside 60 days. The interaction is additive only after entity resolution and date validation.
$65M Series BFinancing
Wins $11M DoD contractFederal award
Hiring acceleration beginsJobs
New manufacturing siteFacilities
CFO hiredExecutive
$48M DoD awardFederal award
31 additional jobsJobs
Financing probability crosses 80%Model threshold
Signal value
Base weight × reliability × time decay × context multiplier- Independent signals
- 14
- Source classes
- 7
- Confidence
- High
Scores are derived from dated evidence and calibrated model rules—not generated prose. Inputs can be challenged; missing coverage reduces confidence.
Entity resolution
Needs verificationCompany intelligence
AAIdentity pending
Robotics, defense technology, and autonomous systems
Atlas Autonomy Systems
Representative autonomous-systems issuer used to model how Shark Money joins a legal filing entity to an operating-company dossier.
Website and logo are intentionally withheld until the legal issuer is matched to a company-controlled source.- Headquarters
- United States · exact office pending verification
- Founded
- 2021 · modeled from issuer record
- Business model
- Hardware platforms, autonomy software, mission systems, and recurring support
Autonomy platform
Software stack for perception, planning, control, and multi-vehicle coordination.
Robotic systems
Purpose-built autonomous platforms for industrial and defense environments.
Mission operations
Command, monitoring, data, and fleet-management tooling.
Founder identity pending
Chief executive / company builder
Resolve against company-controlled sourceTechnical founder pending
Autonomy and robotics
Resolve against company-controlled source37 investors reported
Current financing participants
Names are not supplied by the investor-count fieldPrior-round investors
Potential warm-introduction graph
Resolve from official firm and company sourcesPrimary record
What the filing says
- CIK
- DEMO-000001
- Accession
- Representative record — accession pending live ingestion
- Exemption
- Rule 506(b)
- Security
- Equity
- Industry group
- Other Technology
- Entity type
- Corporation
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware
- Year incorporated
- 2021
- Revenue range
- Declined to disclose
- Minimum investment
- Not disclosed
- Sales commissions
- Verify in source filing
- Duration
- One year or less
This is a representative product record. A live record must display the exact EDGAR accession, filing snapshot, extraction timestamp, and field-level provenance.
Transparent scoring
Why it ranked here
Company quality
30%92Institutional financing scale and repeat-capital trajectory
Thesis fit
20%98Direct robotics and autonomous-systems exposure
Capital trajectory
15%97Disclosed capital stepped from $9.2M to $28.4M to $61.4M
External validation
15%8837 reported investors; identities require enrichment
Government traction
10%72No contract source attached yet—verification required
Financing characteristics
10%94Institutional-sized equity event with amendment activity
Conviction cluster
Connected evidence
Three disclosed financing events with increasing scale
Indicates movement up the institutional capital curve
Federal awards and solicitations
Customer validation matters for autonomy underwriting
Engineering and manufacturing headcount trend
Tests whether capital is funding operating scale
Autonomy, sensing, and control-system portfolio
Helps test technical differentiation
Manufacturing expansion or new production site
Can confirm transition from prototypes to production
Investment committee
Questions that matter
- 01What is the exact security, price, preference stack, and post-money capitalization?
- 02How much of the reported amount is closed, wired, allocated, or still conditional?
- 03What operational milestones will the proceeds fund?
- 04Which customers have moved from pilot to recurring deployment?
- 05What portion of revenue depends on government procurement?
- 06Do founders, employees, or early investors anticipate a tender or secondary program?
Research, not an offering.
Form D is an issuer-filed notice. It does not establish SEC approval, investment quality, live availability, authorization to solicit, or suitability. Verify every material fact and route regulated activity appropriately.