--- title: Alta Ares raises €50M for AI drone interceptors | daily.dev description: French defense startup Alta Ares has raised €50M in a round led by Air Street Capital to scale its AI-guided drone interceptors. Founded in 2024, the company... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/alta-ares-raises-50m-for-ai-drone-interceptors-10ufggkda twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Alta Ares raises €50M for AI drone interceptors | daily.dev og:description: French defense startup Alta Ares has raised €50M in a round led by Air Street Capital to scale its AI-guided drone interceptors. Founded in 2024, the company... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/alta-ares-raises-50m-for-ai-drone-interceptors-10ufggkda og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/10UfGgkDa.png og:image:alt: Alta Ares raises €50M for AI drone interceptors og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Alta Ares raises €50M for AI drone interceptors **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary French defense startup Alta Ares has raised €50M in a round led by Air Street Capital to scale its AI-guided drone interceptors. Founded in 2024, the company builds two systems — X-Lock (15km range, targeting Shahed-type drones) and Black Bird (30km range, targeting cruise missiles and glide bombs) — both combat-tested over Ukraine. The funding addresses the cost asymmetry in modern air defense, where cheap mass-produced drones are being countered by expensive traditional missiles. Alta Ares plans to use the capital for industrial scale-up, new offices in the Middle East and Asia, and expanded production in Toulouse and Kyiv. The raise comes amid a broader European defense-tech boom, with the sector's funding more than doubling recently. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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