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Beaten Zone Venture Partners Backs Seitec in turning a passive, all-weather sensing modality into a new class of defence capability – detecting the threats conventional sensors cannot and reshaping the military and security landscape.

Beaten Zone Venture Partners announces Fund 1 joined Activate Capital and UNSW in a seed round for Seitec, a Canberra defence startup whose seismic sensors find unexploded ordnance and hidden drones.

Beaten Zone Venture Partners portfolio 20 Aug 2026 SeitecADFAir Warfare System Program OfficeAustralian Office of National IntelligenceDroneshieldPIPE NetworksRAAFRiver City LabsRiver PitchSE NetStartup CatalystTen13USAFActivate CapitalBeaten Zone Venture PartnersUNSWBevan FairleighDaniel StevensPeta EllisSteve Baxter

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Directed energy developer RedTail Technology completes Catalyst Accelerator program in Colorado

Sydney directed energy startup RedTail Technology completed the Catalyst Accelerator's Colorado program, one of six small businesses in the 15th cohort, handpicked by US Air Force and Space Force, with a November demo day.

Defence Connect 10 Feb 2026 RedTail TechnologyAir Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles DirectorateCatalyst AcceleratorUSAFUS Space ForceAllison BootheT.I. Weintraub

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