Some founders chase signals. Adam S. Warmoth chased power. Not the ego kind. The literal kind. The volts that keep radios alive, drones humming, sensors seeing, edge AI thinking when the grid is a rumor and the generator is a liability. Chariot Defense, Inc. just secured $34M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz through its American Dynamism strategy, with DCVC, LMNT, Marlinspike, Overmatch, Shield Capital, Ensemble, Trenches Capital, and existing investors General Catalyst and XYZ stepping in again. Total capital now sits at $41M, including the earlier $8M seed led by General Catalyst and XYZ, with Cubit Capital, Ravelin, Forward Deployed VC, Pax, New Vista, D3, and Brave Capital backing the thesis early. The market heard the story. The market wired the conviction.
This is not about shiny hardware for a demo day. This is about command of power on the battlefield. Software defined power. A layer that senses, prioritizes, routes. A brain for energy when energy is survival.
Amphora is the name, and like its ancient namesake, it carries what matters. Amphora A24 delivers mobile, silent power for soldier batteries, radios, sensors, communications gear, robotic systems. Silent watch. Less fuel. Less signature. More staying power. Amphora A400 steps up with high voltage three phase power for air defense, directed energy, medical installations, additive manufacturing, maintenance operations. When the mission scales, the current scales with it.
Within 6 months of seed, Chariot Defense equipment was air assaulted into force on force exercises. Within 12 months, revenue showed up. Contracts followed with the U.S. Army and DIU Project GI, alongside commercial customers. That is not theater. That is traction under load.
Adam S. Warmoth built this after leading counter UAS engineering at Anduril and serving as Senior Director and Head of Product at Archer. Stanford trained. Field tested. He saw the bottleneck. Modern warfare runs on electronics. Electronics run on power. Power without orchestration is noise.
So Chariot Defense is accelerating production of Amphora systems and building an operating system for command, control, and distribution of electric power across the battlefield. Expanding the engineering team. Turning vehicles into mobile microgrids. Turning electrons into advantage.
The global military power solutions market sits in the billions and keeps climbing as drones, sensors, EW, and compute stack load on load. Everyone wants autonomy. Few talk about amperage.
Congratulations to Adam S. Warmoth and the entire Chariot Defense team for moving from stealth to revenue to Series A with discipline. Congratulations to Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, XYZ, and the syndicate for betting on infrastructure most people never see but everyone depends on.
In a world obsessed with the weapon, Chariot Defense focuses on the current that makes it matter. And if power is the quiet kingmaker of modern conflict, the real question becomes who controls the switch.
