The brief

Analyst view

• Raised $500M Series F (May 2026) at $9.84B; investors include Google, NVIDIA, Eric Schmidt.
• AQNav flew on 9 platforms for 245+ hours. Passed Boeing and Northrop tests; September 2026 test on Lumberjack drone.
• Also builds AI for drug discovery and materials science via acquired Good Chemistry.

Technical approach

As reported

Magnetic anomalies

Navigation from Earth's crustal fingerprint

AQNav reads Earth's magnetic anomalies as fixed geographic landmarks, using quantum magnetometers and AI to process the data without satellites.

Software-first

Runs on existing platforms

AQNav uses existing magnetometers and inertial units, processing them with AI models; no special hardware needed.

Large Quantitative Models

AI for hard optimization

LQMs apply quantum-inspired algorithms to drug discovery and materials science where classical methods are slow.