BREAKING: Armada Raises $131M to Launch Leviathan

Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, 8090 Industries, M12, Pinegrove, Veriten, Glade Brook, Overmatch, Silent Ventures, Felicis, Marlinspike

Jul 24, 2025

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Armada Raises $131 Million to Launch Leviathan

The Megawatt-Scale Modular Data Center Poised to Redefine AI Infrastructure

Armada, the hyperscaler for the edge, focused on accelerating America’s AI & energy leadership, has announced a $131 million strategic funding round alongside the launch of Leviathan—a groundbreaking megawatt-scale modular data center (MDC) that marks a major leap forward in distributed AI compute.

This brings Armada’s total funding to over $200M+.

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The new funding round includes participation from strategic investors Pinegrove, Veriten, Glade Brook, and Next Legacy Partners, and follows continued support from existing backers such as Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Shield Capital, 8090 Industries, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Overmatch, Silent Ventures, Felicis, and Marlinspike. This capital will be used to scale production of Leviathan and accelerate Armada’s deployment footprint across the U.S. and allied territories.

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Unleashing American AI Dominance at the Edge

“When we released our recent white paper, U.S. AI Dominance, we made the case that the best way to ensure continued U.S. & allied leadership in AI is to park high-density compute where there is readily available, cheap, & often stranded energy, with the ability to rapidly iterate on the design & relocate it as customer requirements & technology evolve. We described how modular data centers are also the best way to accelerate exports of American AI technology to outpace China in the global power competition.
Leviathan, our new megawatt-scale member of the Galleon product line, turns that thesis into reality & accelerates our mission to bridge the digital divide & ensure that the world runs on the American AI stack.”

Pictured L-R: Taylor Robinette (Growth + Digital), me, CEO Dan Wright

Leviathan: Megawatt-Scale Compute in Weeks

At the center of this milestone is Leviathan, Armada’s most powerful product to date and the newest addition to its Galleon product line. Engineered for rapid deployment, Leviathan delivers 10x the compute power of Armada’s Triton node and is built for environments where infrastructure is sparse but compute demand is growing exponentially, energy fields, military sites, and remote industrial zones.

Each Leviathan module integrates seamlessly with the Armada Edge Platform (AEP), which offers autonomous orchestration, software upgrades, and access to a growing Marketplace of AI models and applications. Its ruggedized, liquid-cooled, energy-agnostic design enables deployment alongside stranded or surplus power sources (solar, nuclear, or natural gas) and can be fully operational within weeks.

“American energy and AI dominance hinges on one thing: moving massive compute to the edge—fast—where data and low-cost power live,” said Dan Wright, Co-Founder and CEO of Armada.

Building the Infrastructure for AI Dominance

Armada’s vision is to tightly couple energy and compute, giving America and its allies, a sovereign, distributed alternative to centralized cloud infrastructure. With Leviathan, that vision is now a reality. These MDCs can train and serve frontier AI models in the world’s most challenging environments, all while sidestepping the timeline, location, and cooling constraints of traditional hyperscaler data centers.

“Around 10% of enterprise-generated data is created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. By 2025, Gartner predicts this figure will reach 75%”

Deployments are already underway through partnerships with Fidelis New Energy and Bakken Energy in regions like North Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, & West Virginia, places rich in underutilized energy but lacking high-density compute infrastructure.

“Leviathan gives America the infrastructure advantage—modular, sovereign, and ready to deploy—so the U.S. can lead not just in AI development, but in the physical systems that power it,” said Wright.

Sovereign by Design

With Leviathan, Armada has now expanded its Galleon product family from suitcase-sized edge nodes for low-latency inference to megawatt-scale compute modules capable of training cutting-edge models.

“From day one, we backed Armada because they saw what others missed: America’s AI leadership hinges on owning the entire stack—from power and silicon to software—and being able to deploy it anywhere,” said Trae Stephens, Partner at Founders Fund. “Leviathan drives that vision forward, expanding the Galleon lineup from suitcase-sized edge nodes for lightweight analytics and inference to megawatt-scale modules that can train and serve frontier models in the harshest environments. With a Galleon for every workload, Armada keeps U.S. and allied AI efforts a step ahead.”

As the race for AI sovereignty intensifies, China is moving quickly to export its AI stack and dominate compute and energy supply chains. In response, Armada is emerging as a strategic national asset for the U.S. and its allies.

Leviathan isn’t just a data center, it’s a new model for AI’s dominance with digital infrastructure. Modular, mobile, and sovereign by design, it can be deployed in weeks, not years, moving past traditional delays and limitations of legacy facilities.

While China builds to export control, Leviathan gives the U.S. infrastructure speed and optionality, bringing compute online faster than ever before. It’s how America can not only lead in model development, but command the physical systems that power the AI era.

“Leviathan embodies our belief that hardware should behave like software: deployable, upgradeable, and governed entirely by code,” said Pradeep Nair, Founding CTO of Armada. “Paired with the turnkey Armada Edge Platform and its growing Marketplace of AI models and applications, Leviathan’s liquid-cooled, energy-agnostic modules deliver megawatt-scale training and inference in weeks—bridging the digital divide by bringing AI straight to the edge, where data and power already live.”

(So cool.)

Choosing Good Quests

The idea for Armada started as a friendly conversation between Dan Wright & Trae Stephens, of Anduril & Founders Fund. They discussed Dan’s next big move to change the world after executive roles leading data teams at DataRobot & AppDynamics. Specifically, they focused on a few macro trends:

Starlink rapidly bringing connectivity to remote locations around the world (Starlink is now 2/3 of all Satellites in orbit, bringing connectivity to 100 countries with 7,000 satellites)
The explosion of IoT with the cost of cameras, sensors, drones, and robots decreasing significantly in the last five years
The rise of large language models and advanced AI applications in operations following the wake of ChatGPT

At the time of their conversation, Trae was writing an article titled 'Choose Good Quests'. This article influenced their decision to think bigger, create impact, and pursue Armada as their next venture. Alongside Dan & Trae, Armada was founded with strategic input from 137 Ventures Founders: Justin Fishner-Wolson & Alex Jacobson. They believed Armada was a good quest — ambitious, necessary, & capable of making the world meaningfully better.

Trae led the first round of capital for Armada’s $55M in financing with Lux, Shield, and 8090 Industries. This marked the beginning of Armada's journey.

Cheers to Armada!

About Armada:

Armada is a full-stack edge infrastructure company delivering compute, storage, connectivity, and AI/ML capabilities to the most remote and rugged industrial environments on Earth. From energy to defense, Armada enables organizations to operate at the edge, without compromise.

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