Munich Spatial-AI Startup SE3 Raises $30M Series A From Accel for Military Drone Battlefield Maps

SE3, spun out of Daniel Cremers' TU Munich computer-vision lab and run by ex-Tesla Autopilot engineer Lukas Köstler, raised a $30M Series A led by Accel with Keen, Lakestar, and Seedcamp. The platform fuses video and sensor feeds from multiple drones and vehicles into a queryable 3D battlefield map, with natural-language object recognition and voice commanding of autonomous systems. SE3 has contracts with the Bundeswehr and operations in Ukraine, and plans to grow from 40 to 120 staff.