Terra Industries Raises $18M, Closing Its Seed Round at $52 million

The London office gives Terra direct access to institutions that shape global defense and infrastructure markets, as well as world-class operations and AI talent, while manufacturing remains in Africa, with expansion planned across the Gulf, South America, and South Asia.

Terra’s Pax-2 manufacturing facility in Ghana opens in Q4 2026. Pax-2, Terra’s second Pax Factory, follows the 15,000 sq. ft. Pax-1 flagship in Abuja, Nigeria. At 34,000 sq. ft., Pax-2 will be the largest drone factory on the continent once fully operational. The facility is expected to reach an annual capacity of 50,000 units across Terra’s aerial systems portfolio by 2028.

Across Africa and the Global South, infrastructure sabotage, illegal mining, organized crime, and terrorism continue to threaten industries and livelihoods. For decades, governments and infrastructure operators have largely relied on imported security systems to manage these threats. These systems are designed for different operating conditions and are expensive to maintain, while dependence on them also introduces geopolitical risk and supply chain exposure and limits sovereignty over software and data.

At the same time, security in the age of autonomy and asymmetry will look different. Countries will rely less on troop-heavy, reactive approaches and more on predictive, autonomous systems built for varied terrains. Data sovereignty matters just as much, giving states and infrastructure operators the ability to detect, deter, and respond to threats on their own terms.

Terra Industries is building these sovereign security capabilities through a vertically integrated platform of systems designed for the Global South’s terrain, scale, and operational realities. Its product portfolio includes long- and mid-range autonomous drones, interceptor drones, sentry towers, and unmanned ground vehicles, all connected through ArtemisOS, Terra’s proprietary software platform that enables real-time threat detection, autonomous mission planning, and coordinated response across vast and difficult environments.