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Drone-Swarm Defence Startup Lands Singapore Accelerator Slot

Inturai Ventures’ DomeCommand just skipped the line into Asia’s defence tech fast lane.

Steve Ladurantaye
Steve Ladurantaye

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Inturai Ventures’ DomeCommand just skipped the line into Asia’s defence tech fast lane.

The drone-swarm command-and-control platform, tied to the Company’s pending acquisition, was picked in the first wave of applicants (out of 450+) for SDTH 2026, a three-month Singapore accelerator built to push defence tech toward procurement.

WHY IT MATTERS

  • DomeCommand will develop within Little Red Dome, the program’s counter-drone mission focused on detecting and defeating drone swarms, with partners including DSTA, DSO National Laboratories, ST Engineering, and Shield AI.

  • Inturai is targeting the C2 layer, the software that fuses sensor data into a coordinated response, which the company argues is underserved compared to the crowded sensor-and-effector hardware market.

  • Paired with Inturai’s spatial sensing tech (built for contested environments where cameras fail), the company is positioning itself in what it calls a greenfield niche rather than competing directly on hardware.

  • The program runs three months and culminates at the main SDTH event, September 25-27, 2026, with pathways to incubation, milestone funding and testbeds.

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

CEO Ed Clarke called the program a way to compress years of defence market entry into months, framing the C2 gap as the opportunity and pilot deployments as the near-term goal.

BOTTOM LINE: Beyond defence, the company is pitching the same detect-decide-respond system for critical infrastructure (airports, power grids, ports, correctional facilities) facing rising drone incursions, giving it two markets from one platform.

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