BUILDING THE FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES

ABOUT VATN

Vatn Systems builds affordable autonomous underwater vehicles that act in cooperative swarms, enabling a multitude of new use cases. At the core of Vatn's R&D efforts is advanced navigation software that is effective in GPS, vision, and comms compromised environments while reducing hardware costs.

FLEXIBLE & MODULAR

Our AUVs enable operators to flexibly deploy assets by hand, air, surface vessels, and more, allowing our customers to get on mission faster and more efficiently. Additionally, our modular building block structure allows our vehicle to be tailored to the ranges, accuracy, and sensors required for every mission at the lowest cost. 

HUMANS OPTIONAL

Vatn's advanced autonomy and navigation software takes humans fully out of the loop. Our R&D focuses on new sensor and data fusion techniques that enables the reduction of error in inertial navigation systems.

COOPERATIVE SWARMING

Our AUVs synchronize in time and space to collaboratively accomplish missions, allowing complex tasks to be finished rapidly and opening up whole new possibilities. Vatn accomplishes this through advanced path planning and stealthy low bandwidth comms between vehicles. 

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From growing up on a sailboat to pioneering underwater defense technology — Vatn Systems co-founders Nelson and Freddie Mills, along with Dan Hendrix and Geoff Manchester have turned a lifetime on the water into a mission to redefine underwater
We are excited to announce that we’ve raised $13 million in an oversubscribed seed round, bringing our total funding to $16.5 million. The round was led by DYNE Ventures, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures, RTX Ventures, IQT (In-Q
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