Albacore Inc. LinkedIn · Jun 2026
Company reported Ghostfin had exceeded 50 nautical miles and had open-ocean sea-state testing.
Autonomous undersea vehicles to deter maritime invasions.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Philadelphia-based defense startup building mass-producible long-range autonomous drone submarines; flagship product is Ghostfin / Ghostfin-M for maritime defense, sensing, communication, logistics, and strike.
Primary product
Ghostfin-M expeditionary drone submarine
Founded
2025
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Team size
20-30 employees
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Sub-industry
Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) / maritime defense
Offices
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Business model
Defense hardware manufacturing
Government procurement / B2G sales
Mission-specific autonomous vehicle sales
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6.6M
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$6.5M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Founding Mechanical Engineer
Head of Global Operations
Associate Director of Federal
Chief of Staff
Work & culture
Small, hardware-heavy defense team with a fast-moving, mission-driven culture; public hiring pages emphasize physical work in Philadelphia, close software-hardware collaboration, field testing, and rapid iteration. Public pages do not list explicit perks/benefits.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
No public salary bands or compensation details were found on the official site or Built In pages reviewed; public hiring signals are mission-driven and hands-on rather than compensation-forward.
Product & market
Differentiators
- —~1,000 nautical mile range
- —~30 days endurance
- —Mass-producible design
- —Commercial off-the-shelf component mix
- —Modular mission payloads
- —Launchable from boats, piers, or beaches
- —Designed for sensing, communication, logistics, and kinetic effects
- —Small-team deployable
Technology
Robot Operating System (ROS)
Altium
SolidWorks
Linux
Python
Kubernetes
Docker
JavaScript
Ramp
Acoustic systems
MATLAB
Customers
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Navy
Special Operations Forces (SOCOM)
Intelligence community
Allied foreign militaries
Competitors
Anduril (Dive / Dive-LD)
Other unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) developers
Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) vendors
Traditional defense primes with undersea systems
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1.1M ARR (third-party estimate, updated 2025-09-14)
Estimated monthly visits
6.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Albacore Inc. LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Congressman Donald Norcross visited the Philadelphia facility and saw Ghostfin in action.
Albacore Inc. LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Company announced a new website and highlighted its brand/product positioning.
Albacore Inc. LinkedIn · Mar 2026
Company post celebrating John Huddleston’s Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition.
Tectonic Defense · Oct 2025
Announced a $6.5M seed round led by Outlander VC, with a detailed look at Ghostfin, team size, use cases, and production plans.
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