Startup Rankings
Top Defence Startups in Romania 2026
Last updated · 2 companies · compiled from public data sources
Romania hosts 2 of the defence startups tracked in the fieldfaster dataset, with teams in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca. Focus areas include counter-UAS, autonomy and AI, uncrewed systems.
Every entry is a short factual profile compiled from public sources: what the company builds, where it is based and when it was founded. The ranking favours established teams, ordering companies by team size band first and company age second. No funding figures are used.
- 1.
OVES Enterprise
Cluj-Napoca · founded 2015
Cluj-Napoca software company whose Nemesis AI platform powers military drones and is used in US Army-deployed EAGLS counter-drone systems; also developing the SkyLock interception system and INTERJET jet interceptor.
Sources: fieldfaster curated dataset (public sources)
- 2.
Qognifly
Bucharest
Romanian air security company building the Drone Wall counter-UAS architecture of radars, C2 software and interceptors plus ISR and cargo drone platforms. Raised EUR 2M in 2026 to open a Bucharest factory.
Sources: fieldfaster curated dataset (public sources)
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