Reaxiomatic Launches With $7.25 Million Pre-Seed Funding to Refresh Critical Defense Platforms

SAN DIEGO, CA — June 10, 2026 — Reaxiomatic, Inc. (“Reax”), an aerospace and defense startup focused on rethinking and refreshing critical platforms and infrastructure for the Department of War, today announced the close of its $7.25 million pre-seed funding round.

The oversubscribed round is led by Scout Ventures and nvp capital, with participation from Bling Capital.  

While Reax is not yet publicly releasing specific product details, the company is focused on rapid development of large, strategic hardware systems, enabling faster timelines from initial concept through operational use, with the goal of massively increasing the rate at which new capabilities reach the US and allied warfighters.

“Reax has identified a specific, high-impact entry point with a clear path from early capability to real operational adoption,” said Cody Huggins, Partner at Scout Ventures. ”It’s a rare combination of a massive existing spend, a defined wedge, and a go-to-market strategy that can scale once proven. Given our experience across the defense ecosystem, this is exactly the kind of opportunity that can move quickly from concept to something that matters.”

The company was founded by Skyler Shuford, a second-time founder and previously President and co-founder of Hermeus, a unicorn aerospace and defense company focused on extremely rapid, high-speed aircraft development.

“At Hermeus, we built an organization that can design, build, and fly brand new jets from scratch in about year, which is about 8-times faster than any near-peers.  A similar playbook can, and must, be applied to other critical defense systems,” said Shuford. “Increasing the rate of capability to the warfighter isn’t merely about development speed and cool new tech, it’s about avoiding the myriad quagmires that cause cost and schedule to balloon exponentially.”

“Skyler has already demonstrated an ability to build a team that can compress timelines on complex hardware systems, and just as importantly, understands how to navigate the operational, regulatory, and customer realities,” said Dan Borok, Managing Partner at nvp capital. “Reax is built from the ground up to manage those risks, which is why we believe it can deliver outsized outcomes in a market that has historically resisted new entrants.”

Reax will use the funding to build its initial team, develop and flight test early hardware systems, and establish multiple customer pathways into specific initial defense use-cases.

The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and is actively hiring a small number of highly effective engineers and operators to support its next phase of development and sales.