The company has 500% growth in bookings for capabilities in 2025 alone.
Ukraine has been the proving ground for Iranian drone warfare against Western systems; partner nations can now adopt these combat-tested technologies and operational playbooks cost-effectively.
London, UK (March 5, 2026) — UFORCE, a defense technology company based in the United Kingdom (UK), today announced the close of an initial funding round led by Shield Capital and Lakestar with participation from Ballistic Ventures and other leading American and European defense investors. Drawing upon experienced teams spanning from Kyiv to London to Silicon Valley, UFORCE has unified the best of Ukrainian defense tech innovation and combat-proven autonomous systems into one company that enables allied militaries worldwide to rapidly adopt and operationalize cutting-edge aerial, maritime and ground unmanned systems.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country in 2022, Ukraine has become the most demanding, real-world proving ground for modern warfare. UFORCE was created to ensure that the proven technologies and systems are not lost, but instead institutionalized and scaled as part of a burgeoning Ukrainian and Western industrial base.
“Ukraine didn’t just adapt to modern warfare, it reinvented it,” said Oleg Rogynskyy, UFORCE co-founder and CEO. “We built a company that can take these combat-proven, not slide-deck-proven, systems and deliver them to the allies now facing similar threats.”
UFORCE leverages what has been achieved in Ukraine, starting with nine-figure bookings in 2025 and growing close to 500%, with a highly distributed and secure supply chain, spanning more than 15 locations across 6 allied countries. A dedicated team of more than 1,000 professionals with firsthand experience in manufacturing systems, developing and updating software, and testing and validating products within hours to meet the urgent timelines required in a continuous conflict.
“This past week, the ease with which Iranian Shaheds and rockets penetrated airspace around major Gulf targets underscores the importance for countries to rethink air defense as many still resemble Ukraine circa 2021,” continued Rogynskyy. “Ukraine has systematically built and refined a layered defense architecture. Capabilities exist today that include maritime platforms, like MAGURA USVs, which launch low-cost interceptors, designed to neutralize these threats at a fraction of traditional missile-defense costs.”
UFORCE created a portfolio of Ukrainian capabilities made up of fully combat-proven autonomous warfare ecosystems across sea, air, and land. At sea, Magura uncrewed surface vessels have sunk over a dozen Russian warships and became the first USVs in history to down manned helicopters and fighter jets, redefining maritime warfare. In the air domain, Nemesis medium and heavy strike multirotor platforms rank among the most widely deployed and effective bomber UAVs on the battlefield. These are complemented by UGVs, unmanned logistics vehicles, remote weapon systems, laser counter-UAS capabilities, and advanced multi-domain and multi-UxV C2 software, forming a battle-tested, integrated autonomous stack refined under real-world combat conditions. A full list of capabilities is below.
These high-precision unmanned systems have carried out hundreds of thousands of verified combat missions at ranges from tens to over a thousand kilometers during the defense against Russian aggression.
“This is not theoretical research and development,” said Raj Shah, managing partner of Shield Capital. “The UFORCE systems have been battle-proven under electronic warfare, GPS denied environments, and kinetic threats. Scaling tested capability is urgently needed across the free world.”
The company’s leadership team brings together extensive experience across technology, government, and defense. The UFORCE team includes: Oleg Rogynskyy, who founded People.ai, the first Ukrainian-origin Silicon Valley unicorn with a $1.1 billion valuation; Oleksiy Honcharuk, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2019 to 2020 and has contributed to a number of critical defense projects. He advised the Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces and served as Chair of the Supervisory Board of Aerorozvidka; Ben Wallace, the former United Kingdom Defence Secretary, who played a central role in shaping Allied military support for Ukraine and NATO’s evolving approach to modern conflict.
“UFORCE represents a true win-win: it brings investment from democratic nations into Ukraine while directly strengthening the security of those same democracies. Technologies shaped by Ukraine’s unique battlefield experience are already proving to be game-changers,” said Oleksiy Honcharuk, UFORCE Chairman of the Board.
“What we are seeing in Ukraine is the future of warfare, effective, faster and less costly to develop, and with a team that is relentlessly adaptive,” said Klaus Hommels, Founder and Chairman, Lakestar. “UFORCE is how capability scales to democratic partners and allies.”
With this investment, UFORCE will advance next-generation autonomous systems. A full list of UFORCE technologies includes:
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