Kova Labs
Autonomy software for drones and ground vehicles that navigate without GPS in contested terrain, for European defence forces
Highlights
- Young companyFounded 2025
- New on EvolcAdded 2026-10-28
About Kova Labs
Kova Labs develops Backbone, a vision-based, platform-agnostic autonomy engine for air and ground platforms that operates without GNSS. Its Kilo product is a software-defined autonomous aerial system, and Console lets one operator task and supervise a fleet of platforms across domains from one interface.
The company's stated mission is to equip European defence forces and their allies with autonomous capabilities. The website names the Finnish Defence Forces as a program partner.
Kova Labs Oy is registered in Finland with Helsinki as its headquarters city, and was founded in 2025. The website reports a first place and a €300,000 award in Phase II of BraveTech EU, organised by the European Defence Agency and Brave1, and says the company is establishing a presence in Ukraine. Openings are listed in research and development, engineering, field operations, forward operations, and operations and growth.
Product: Backbone autonomy engine for air and ground platforms; Kilo software-defined autonomous aerial system; Console fleet supervision interface.
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