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Traysar launches Terminus; partners with Armada to bring Sovereign AI infrastructure underground. Strategic partnership combines Traysar's autonomous subterra platforms with Armada's modular data centers, the Armada Platform, and the Sovereign AI Grid to protect critical compute in an increasingly contested world. WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 23, 2026 - Traysar, the world's first dedicated subterra defense technology company, today announced from the stage of the Sovereign AI Summit at Impact 250 the launch of Terminus, a truck-mounted boring platform designed to rapidly position and protect critical infrastructure beneath the Earth's surface. As part of the launch, Traysar is partnering with Armada, the leader in sovereign AI, to bring sovereign AI infrastructure underground, creating a new class of hardened, distributed compute engineered for environments where traditional facilities are vulnerable, disconnected, or impossible to deploy. The partnership brings together Traysar's expertise in autonomous underground systems and infrastructure survivability with Armada's infrastructure layer for sovereign AI: modular data centers that can be delivered and operational in months, the Armada Platform that keeps every deployment under the customer's control, and the Sovereign AI Grid that connects deployments into a resilient distributed system. The companies intend to explore integrated underground solutions supporting secure AI processing, command and control, communications, and other mission-critical workloads for the United States and its allies. "The next generation of critical infrastructure cannot remain exposed," said Yadin Soffer, Co-founder and CEO of Traysar. "Terminus transforms the Earth's crust into a protective layer for the systems America depends on most. By combining Traysar's ability to create and operate in underground environments with Armada's ability to deploy powerful AI infrastructure virtually anywhere, we are building a new standard for resilient compute - concealed, hardened, and ready to operate when surface infrastructure cannot." Modern conflict has made the surface increasingly transparent and vulnerable. Persistent surveillance, autonomous weapons, precision strike, and electronic warfare are placing conventional data centers and communications infrastructure at growing risk. Terminus is being developed to address that vulnerability by positioning distributed infrastructure underground, close to operational demand and protected by the Earth itself. Armada's infrastructure is built for exactly these conditions. Its modular data centers are manufactured on a production line rather than constructed on site and can be placed wherever power is available. The Armada Platform runs entirely on-site, without reliance on any external cloud, and can operate fully air gapped where the mission requires it. The Sovereign AI Grid connects deployments into a distributed system so critical AI workloads never depend on a single site. Armada's infrastructure has already supported operations in demanding and communications-constrained settings, including enabling the U.S. Navy to deploy edge computing during UNITAS, the largest multinational maritime exercise. More recently in the wake of attacks on brick-and-mortar data centers in the Middle East, a Galleon was deployed to a military organization and live within six days. This enabled a sovereign AI deployment supporting real-time data fusion, satellite imagery analysis, and sensor processing. "The future of AI infrastructure is distributed, sovereign, and resilient," said Dan Wright, Co-founder and CEO of Armada. "The Sovereign AI Grid is built so that no critical workload depends on a single site. Terminus adds a new dimension. Together we can put a fully sovereign, air-gapped AI node beneath the surface, close to the mission it supports, and keep it running when everything above ground cannot." Terminus represents an expansion of the subterra domain beyond maneuver and strike to include survivability. Traysar defines this mission as Subterra Survivability: using the underground to safeguard critical assets, preserve operational continuity, and ensure freedom of action under attack. "The company already develops autonomous systems for underground penetration, strike, maneuver, monitoring and intelligence. Potential applications for the combined Traysar-Armada capability include: * Hardened AI infrastructure for contested environments * Resilient command, control, and communications * Protected data processing where surface facilities are at risk * Underground nodes for distributed sovereign AI networks * Continuity infrastructure for government and defense operations * Rapidly deployable underground mission systems "The cloud changed where the world stores information. Edge computing changed where the world processes it. Terminus deepens the territory where critical compute can survive," Soffer added. "The future of infrastructure is not only distributed, it is underground." The partnership reflects a shared commitment to strengthening America's industrial base and ensuring that the United States and its allies can deploy trusted AI infrastructure wherever missions, data, and energy converge, including beneath the battlefield. The announcement was made at the Sovereign AI Summit at Impact 250, a national convening in Washington, D.C. marking America's 250th anniversary and focused on the next generation of American infrastructure, manufacturing, and national security. About Traysar Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Traysar is the world's first subterra defense technology company. Through breakthroughs in military boring and autonomous underground systems, Traysar transforms the Earth's crust into a three-dimensional maneuver and protection environment, enabling new capabilities against subterranean threats and the rapid hardening of critical infrastructure. Traysar is backed by Silent Ventures, Lux Capital, Craft, and other strategic investors. For more information, visit www.traysar.com. About Armada Armada is the hyperscaler for the edge, delivering modular AI infrastructure from first deployment to AI factory with speed, scale, and sovereignty. For more information, visit https://www.armada.ai/. Media Contacts Traysar: Rachel Devany, KCOMM, [email protected], 949-443-9300

From Gaza's tunnels to Iran's bunkers: Israeli startup targets the underground war. Traysar launches with $25 million in funding to develop autonomous systems designed for military operations beneath the Earth's surface. 14:20, 02.07.26 The rapid militarization of the underground battlefield has become one of the defining challenges facing modern armed forces, according to newly launched defense startup Traysar, which has emerged from stealth with $25 million in Seed funding to develop autonomous systems designed to operate beneath the Earth's surface. The company, founded in August 2024 by Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz, and Gilad Adin, says it is building a new category of defense technology centered on what it calls the "subterra" domain, a battlefield that has received comparatively little investment despite becoming increasingly important in modern conflicts. The funding round was led by Silent Ventures and included participation from Lux Capital, Ora Global, NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista, Entree Capital, and a group of strategic angel investors that includes entrepreneur Steve Blank as well as founders from Anduril and Erebor. Traysar publicly introduced its technology earlier this month at the 2026 Reindustrialize Summit. The company argues that while governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars developing missiles, missile defense systems, drones, and counter-drone technologies, adversaries have increasingly shifted critical military assets underground, creating a capability gap that existing weapons struggle to address. Among the examples cited by the company are China's investment in underground military facilities, acknowledged in a 2023 U.S. Department of War report to Congress; the challenge allied forces face in reaching Iran's deeply buried nuclear infrastructure; and Hamas' extensive tunnel networks, which the company says demonstrated how underground systems can support military operations while remaining difficult to target. "Our message to adversaries is clear: there is no place to hide," said co-founder and CEO Yadin Soffer. "Traysar's mission is to expose every subterranean threat and equip the armies of the free world to fight in this new-yet-ancient dimension." Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company's initial product lineup focuses on autonomous platforms capable of operating in contested underground environments. One system is designed as an excavator-class autonomous platform capable of breaching tunnels while navigating, mapping, and exploring underground networks. Another is intended to rapidly burrow beneath the surface to create precision underground access points capable of delivering payloads to otherwise inaccessible locations. Beyond offensive applications, the company also sees underground infrastructure as a means of improving military resilience. It argues that the same technologies used to penetrate subterranean facilities can also help allied forces harden military bases, secure manufacturing sites, and protect logistics networks during attacks.

Traysar, a defence technology startup focused on subterranean warfare, has raised $25 million in seed funding led by Silent Ventures, with participation from Lux Capital, Ora Global and strategic angel investors including Steve Blank. The Austin-based company emerged from stealth at the 2026 Reindustrialize Summit. The startup is developing autonomous platforms for underground military operations, including a tunnel-breaching system for navigating contested underground networks and a rapid-burrowing platform for creating subterranean access points. Co-founded by Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz and Gilad Adin, Traysar's engineering team includes former SpaceX and Boring Company engineers. The company aims to address what it describes as a capability gap, as adversaries increasingly use underground facilities to protect military assets whilst defence spending remains focused on aerial systems.