Paris radar startup raises 7.1 million euros on a brief written by field operators
Gallium Defense, a Paris-based drone detection startup, came out of stealth in November 2026 with a 7.1 million euro Seed round. Keen Venture Partners and 360 Capital led the round, and Omnes Capital and Polytechnique Ventures also took part. Eric Fournier, Florian Lemoine and Robin Mandel founded the company in April 2026. It plans to open orders for its GDS-10 radar in the first quarter of 2027.
The brief behind Gallium Defense did not come from a boardroom. Chief executive Eric Fournier says the design started from a question operators asked in the field: how to meet 80 percent of the need at 20 percent of the price. The three founders spent long careers in consulting and the defence industry, yet they let the people who run radars set the target, not the people who sell them.
Source: EU-Startups · November 2, 2026