Mara raises $7M to make counter-drone defense as expendable as the threat
Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu built Spike around tiny kinetic interceptors, with company-reported tests in Army exercises and Ukraine.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: GlobeNewswire
Why it matters
Cheap FPV drones have broken the economics of conventional air defense. Mara is betting that distributed sensors and expendable interceptors can restore that balance without requiring another high-cost weapons platform.
Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu raised $7 million for Mara, their San Francisco defense hardware business, to move its Spike counter-drone system from field tests toward customer deployments. The founders are building Spike around a blunt economic premise: a drone that costs a few hundred dollars should be met with defenses designed to be lost and replaced, rather than another scarce, expensive aircraft.…