Rune Raises $24M to Replace Military Spreadsheets With AI That Thinks Like a Commander
While the tech world obsesses over weapons that go boom, Rune is quietly building the brain that gets them to the battlefield — with or without Wi-Fi.
Forget drones. Forget hypersonic missiles. The biggest vulnerability in modern warfare is a spreadsheet.
That’s the premise behind Rune Technologies — a defense startup founded by Anduril and Meta alums who believe the future of war will be won not by better weapons, but by smarter logistics.
And the Pentagon seems to agree.
Rune just closed a $24 million Series A, led by Human Capital with backing from a16z, Point72, and Forward Deployed VC. The reason? TyrOS — an edge-first, AI-powered logistics brain that runs in the jungle, on a ship, or in the middle of a kinetic mess.
The Problem: War Is Fought in Excel
Co-founder David Tuttle, a former U.S. Army field artillery officer turned Anduril operator, puts it bluntly:
“The U.S. military runs on whiteboards, spreadsheets, and human memory.”
In a world where Ukraine is firing more artillery in a month than NATO planned for in a year, that’s a problem. Analog systems don’t scale. They break under fire. Literally.
Rune’s answer is TyrOS — a logistics operating system that ingests hundreds of variables (weather, terrain, crew status, supply depots, transit paths, enemy movement) and turns it into a live, intelligent supply web.
Forget “Where are my bullets?”
TyrOS asks:
“What’s the fastest, safest, crew-qualified way to deliver 4 pallets of ammo through hostile territory — and how will that affect inventory 3 weeks from now?”
This is predictive, adaptive logistics — built for disconnected environments.
Two Things Make TyrOS a Game-Changer
1. Tactical AI with Strategic Teeth
TyrOS uses deep learning to forecast demand across food, fuel, parts, people, and equipment. But it doesn’t stop at forecasts.
It reasons.
- If a bridge is blown out, it reroutes supply chains in real time.
- If a vehicle breaks down, it reassigns transport using asset availability.
- If battlefield conditions change, it suggests new courses of action — using integrated generative AI and course-of-action generation tools.
TyrOS doesn’t just show data. It makes decisions. It thinks like a battle-hardened G4.
And when it needs to plan aircraft payloads or optimize cargo by cubic volume, it drops the LLM and picks up traditional optimization algorithms — because sometimes you don’t need a poet, you need a calculator.
2. Edge-First by Design
Most military AI breaks down the moment the cloud disappears.
TyrOS doesn’t flinch.
It’s “cloud-capable, not cloud-required” — which means it runs locally on laptops and hardware the military already uses. It syncs when it can, but it doesn’t stop when it can’t.
“This is software that works in the jungle. Not in theory. Not in five years. Right now.”
The Team Behind It? Built for the Mission
Two-thirds of Rune’s staff are veterans. Tuttle met co-founder Peter Goldsborough — a former Meta engineer and Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary volunteer — while working on AI at Anduril.
They built Rune to bridge a gap they saw from the inside:
hardware was advancing, software wasn’t.
And their investors noticed.
Rune’s backers include execs from Palantir and Anduril, and the company just integrated with Palantir’s Defense OSDK, connecting TyrOS into the broader battle decision chain — from edge sensors to industrial base supply lines.
Why It Matters
This isn’t a backend tool for bean counters. This is combat software that connects tactical decisions on the battlefield to strategic production shifts at the factory.
You’re not just seeing what ammo you need today.
You’re helping shape how much is produced next quarter.
That’s the scale Rune is aiming for.
And as defense tech increasingly shifts toward data-driven warfare, logistics — long ignored — is finally taking center stage.
TL;DR
- Rune raised $24M Series A to scale its military logistics AI platform, TyrOS
- Designed to replace spreadsheets with predictive, generative AI
- Built to operate disconnected in real-world battlefields
- Already deployed in Army and Marine Corps pilots
- Partners include Palantir; backers include a16z, Point72, Human Capital
- Goal: Turn logistics into a strategic weapon in modern warfare
This isn’t the future of military tech. This is the operating system for war — now digitized, decentralized, and battle-ready.