Stellios Technologies

Stellios Technologies profile

By Jonathan Tauzerus · reviewed against primary sources · updated October 21, 2026.

Stellios Technologies is a privately held Austin, Texas company that emerged from stealth on October 20, 2026 with a reported $5 million pre-seed round to build MW-class high-power microwave (HPM) systems for counter-drone defense and industrial uses.

What Stellios Technologies does

Stellios Technologies Designs and builds the core hardware inside high-power microwave (HPM) systems. That hardware includes vacuum-electronic sources such as klystrons and gyrotrons, along with the high-voltage power generation, conditioning and control systems that drive them.

According to DRONELIFE's report, the company pairs this hardware with modern power electronics, software-defined controls and AI-native engineering, aiming to make HPM systems smaller, cheaper and faster to develop than legacy designs.

It reports $2 million in signed customer purchase orders and sells MW-class systems to two markets: defense buyers for counter-drone and counter-electronics missions, and industrial users for geothermal drilling, advanced materials processing and plasma heating for fusion research.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

MW-class high-power microwave (HPM) systems (first commercial product line, for counter-drone, counter-electronics and industrial applications)
Stellios Genesis (AI-native engineering and digital-twin platform)
Vacuum-electronic devices including klystrons and gyrotrons, with high-voltage power generation, conditioning and control systems

This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.

Stellios Technologies drone lineup

The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.

No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.

Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.

Recent contracts & awards

A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for Stellios Technologies, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.

FundingOct 20, 2026$5M
Stellios Technologies emerges from stealth with $5M pre-seed round for high-power microwave systems
Austin-based Stellios Technologies emerged from stealth on October 20, 2026 with what it describes as an oversubscribed $5 million pre-seed financing, with investors including Sofreh Capital, Wave Function Ventures and Cubit Capital, to build its first MW-class high-power microwave systems for counter-drone and industrial uses.
The company says it holds $2 million in signed customer purchase orders but has not named the customers, and the counter-drone discussions cited by Cubit Capital are described only as "ongoing defense customer discussions" with no announced government contract.
Researchers should treat the round size and purchase orders as company-reported, since this is a private pre-seed round, and look for named customers or federal contract records before treating any defense work as obligated.
DroneLife — original report

Is Stellios Technologies going public?

Stellios Technologies is private and has no ticker or exchange listing. It disclosed a pre-seed round in October 2026, so there are no public filings like a 10-K. Track it through SEC EDGAR for any Form D notice, SAM.gov and Department of Defense contract announcements for government awards, and the company's own announcements for funding and delivery milestones.

Where Stellios Technologies sits in the value chain

Stellios Technologies is an enabler: it supplies inputs to the companies that build complete systems, so its demand is spread across many platforms instead of concentrated in any single program.

Its disclosed activity spans counter-UAS. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand.

Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.

What to watch

The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.

Delivery of the first contracted HPM systems against the reported $2 million in signed purchase orders. Shipped hardware would confirm the company can build at MW class. Purchase orders alone show demand, not a working product.
Any named U.S. government award or prototype agreement. The company says it is accelerating government business development and Cubit Capital cites ongoing defense customer discussions. A named contract would show which agency is buying and for what mission.
Opening of the domestic research and pilot manufacturing facilities the company says the round will fund. This is the step that turns a lab team into a supplier that can repeat a build.
Split of revenue between defense counter-drone work and industrial uses such as geothermal drilling and fusion plasma heating. A company working across HPM, compact fusion and advanced propulsion can spread a pre-seed budget thin, so the first customers show where its engineering hours are going.

How to research Stellios Technologies

Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.

Research question	Where the answer lives	What to look for
Is there anything to buy?	SEC EDGAR full-text search	Whether any registration statement exists at all — absent one, there is no public security.
Is the government work real?	Official DoD contract announcements	Awarding service and scope of work, rather than a company-issued announcement.
What is the acquisition pathway?	DIU and DARPA program pages	Whether the work runs through non-traditional agreements or a conventional program of record.
How would exposure even work?	Fund holdings disclosures	Whether any listed vehicle discloses a stake — indirect exposure is usually thin and unstated.

The emergence announcement, investor list (Sofreh Capital, Wave Function Ventures, Cubit Capital, Mana Ventures, Atoms & Bits, Output Capital, Erik Bruckner), use of funds and the $2 million purchase-order claim come from [DRONELIFE's October 21, 2026 report](https://dronelife.com/2026/10/21/stellios-technologies-emerges-from-stealth-with-high-power-microwave-systems/). The round size, oversubscription and purchase orders are company-reported and not independently verified there.
Private companies raising outside capital often file a Form D notice. Search [SEC EDGAR full-text search](https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/) for "Stellios Technologies" to see whether a filing exists and what amount it states. No Form D is confirmed in the source.
Federal contract awards and solicitations would appear on [SAM.gov](https://sam.gov/), and awards of $7.5 million or more appear in the [Department of Defense daily contract announcements](https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/). No government award to Stellios is named in the source.
Team background comes from the same report. Founder and chief executive Richard Starson holds a Caltech doctorate and previously co-founded Escape Dynamics, where members of the Stellios team designed and operated a 100 kW-class gyrotron. University of New Mexico professor Edl Schamiloglu is listed as an adviser.

One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.

Stellios Technologies FAQ

What does Stellios Technologies do?

Stellios Technologies Designs and builds the core hardware inside high-power microwave (HPM) systems.

Is Stellios Technologies publicly traded?

Stellios Technologies is not publicly traded, so there is no ticker to buy. Any claim otherwise should be verified against SEC EDGAR before it is believed.

What should investors watch with Stellios Technologies?

Delivery of the first contracted HPM systems against the reported $2 million in signed purchase orders. Shipped hardware would confirm the company can build at MW class. Purchase orders alone show demand, not a working product.

Where can I research Stellios Technologies directly?

Go to the primary sources: Stellios Technologies (official site), DroneLife — original report. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.