Rune Technologies just raised $24M to tackle military logistics with AI software.
Silicon Valley’s military startups mostly build hardware like drones and weapons. Rune flips that script, focusing on AI-powered logistics. Their product TyrOS replaces slow, manual military supply chains, running smart forecasts and operations even offline.
Co-founder David Tuttle, a former U.S. Army field artillery officer and Anduril alum, says the military still uses Excel and whiteboards to track supplies. TyrOS uses deep learning to predict demand, optimize assets, and route supply lines — factoring in threats and damaged routes. It’s built to run on a laptop in the jungle, not just in the cloud. 
“The U.S. military runs on Excel spreadsheets and white boards and manual processes right now to execute logistics operations,” David Tuttle told TechCrunch.
“Logistics is never the sexiest part of the military. The technology industry emphasis is on how do we make things go boom? How do we build great weapons systems?”
Tuttle said Ukraine exposes the limits of old-school logistics in high-intensity conflicts. Rune’s system is designed for just that kind of fast, complex battlefield resupply.
The Series A was led by Human Capital with backing from a16z, Point72 Ventures, Forward Deployed VC, and others. Rune has pilot tests with the Army and Marine Corps and plans to expand across all US military branches.
TyrOS mixes generative AI for scenario planning with precise math models for critical calculations like aircraft loadouts. It also integrates with Palantir’s Defense OSDK and runs hardware-agnostic on military gear.
“A logistician thinks about not just, ‘What do I have on hand from supplies?,’ but also, ‘What vehicles do I have to move that?’ ‘What qualified crews do I have to drive that vehicle?’ ‘What routes is that vehicle going to go over?’ ‘And is that threat-informed?’ ‘Is a bridge blown up on the route that we need to reroute around?’” Tuttle said.
Rune aims to automate logistics from tactical edge all the way to strategic industrial production decisions — like shaping artillery shell manufacturing based on battlefield data.
“I’m not just worried about sustaining this for the next 30 or 60 days,” Tuttle said.
“I’m worried about how this might impact production decisions back in the defense industrial base. That’s the vision we want to get up to. How do you drive tactical level data all the way up to the operational level, to the strategic level, to potentially drive the production of artillery shells?”
Rune’s 2/3 veteran team is building software made for battlefields, not just cloud data centers. TyrOS’s edge-first design means it works disconnected then syncs up when online. It’s cloud-capable but doesn’t need the cloud.
Rune is now racing to scale AI logistics operations for the U.S. military’s next-generation supply chains.
Peter Goldsborough volunteers with the U.S. Marine Corps Cyber Auxiliary.
