Alpine Eagle
Alpine Eagle builds Sentinel, an air-to-air counter-UAS swarm system combining networked interceptor UAVs, 360° active radar, and Sentinel-OS software.
Background
Alpine Eagle was founded in Munich in 2023 by Jan-Hendrik Boelens (CEO) and Timo Breuer.
The company operates from Munich with additional offices in the UK and Netherlands, targeting the military counter-UAS market from the outset rather than pivoting from commercial drone work.
The core product is Sentinel: a coordinated swarm of airborne interceptor UAVs guided by 360° active radar and tied together by Sentinel-OS, a proprietary software layer that fuses sensor data, manages swarm coordination, and can integrate with third-party hardware.
The company positions Sentinel-OS as platform-agnostic, allowing integration with market-available UAV airframes — including the DeltaQuad Evo via a partnership with Dutch manufacturer DeltaQuad — rather than requiring bespoke hardware procurement.
Alpine Eagle sells directly to defence ministries and armed forces, with the Bundeswehr as its anchor customer.
The company grew from 12 employees in 2024 to roughly 50 by mid-2026 and has publicly targeted 100 staff by end-2026, reflecting a rapid scaling posture consistent with its seed-stage funding base.
Linked records
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Financial footing
- €10.25M seed (Oct 2025, IQ Capital)
- >€10M total
- Bundeswehr first Sentinel customer (2024)
- 3+ EU customers
- Ukraine field trials (2025)
- Backers: IQ Capital (lead), HTGF, Expeditions Fund, Sentris, General Catalyst, HCVC
Alpine Eagle raised a €10.25 million seed round in October 2025, led by IQ Capital, with participation from HTGF, Expeditions Fund, Sentris, General Catalyst, and HCVC. Dealroom reports the seed at €10.3 million, consistent with the €10.25 million figure after rounding. Total funding disclosed stands at more than €10 million; no prior institutional rounds have been publicly announced. The company has not disclosed a post-money valuation.
No revenue figures, order backlog totals, or ARR disclosures have been made public. Alpine Eagle remains privately held with no indication of imminent public-market activity. The investor syndicate spans European deep-tech specialists (IQ Capital, HTGF) and transatlantic venture funds (General Catalyst, HCVC), suggesting a deliberate effort to build credibility on both sides of the Atlantic defence procurement market.
Major customers & contracts
Joined live from the Procurement & Contracts Tracker — real award/announcement records.
| Customer | System | Scale / detail | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Airborne Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (TA936) | — | signed |
Further disclosed customers & programs (public reporting):
The German Bundeswehr was Alpine Eagle's first Sentinel customer, signing in 2024 under the Airborne Counter-Unmanned Aerial System programme (TA936), confirmed in a signed contract listed in the TED Europa procurement database. Alpine Eagle has publicly stated it has since signed contracts with three additional European customers, but has not disclosed their identities.
The company conducted field trials of Sentinel in Ukraine in 2025, engaging directly with Ukrainian brigades to refine front-line use cases, though no formal Ukrainian Armed Forces procurement contract has been disclosed. Alpine Eagle participated in Project Vanaheim, a counter-UAS exercise involving U.S. and U.K. forces, indicating engagement with Anglosphere militaries beyond the Bundeswehr relationship. The DeltaQuad partnership adds a NATO-aligned Dutch industrial dimension to the customer and integration ecosystem.
Leadership & contact surface
Leadership: Jan-Hendrik Boelens (co-founder; co-founder Timo Breuer)
Official site: https://alpineeagle.com
Competitive position
Against Anduril's Roadrunner interceptor drone, Alpine Eagle competes directly on the air-to-air intercept concept but lacks Anduril's U.S. defence budget access, proven production scale, and SOCOM/USAF programme wins. Against Rheinmetall's ground-based Skyranger and radar-effector systems, Alpine Eagle's airborne swarm offers mobility and altitude advantages but has no comparable production contract volume or established logistics tail. Against Rafael's Drone Dome, which is a mature, exported ground system with combat record in Israel, Alpine Eagle is earlier-stage and unproven in sustained operational use.
Against Epirus, which fields high-power microwave effectors for soft-kill defeat, Alpine Eagle's hard-kill swarm approach is differentiated but more operationally complex and weather-dependent. The market is fragmenting between soft-kill (jamming, HPM) and hard-kill (interceptors) solutions; Alpine Eagle sits firmly in the hard-kill airborne tier, a less crowded but harder-to-certify segment. Its software-layer strategy via Sentinel-OS is the clearest potential moat.
Battlefield relevance
Alpine Eagle tested Sentinel with Ukrainian forces in 2025, conducting field trials in-country and working directly with frontline brigades to identify operational requirements. The trials informed product development but no confirmed combat deployment or operational fielding by Ukrainian units has been disclosed.
The Bundeswehr signed as the first customer in 2024 under programme TA936, but no operational deployment details have been made public. Alpine Eagle participated in Project Vanaheim, a counter-UAS exercise with U.S. and U.K. forces, though exercise context rather than live-combat use. No confirmed combat use to date beyond Ukraine trials.
Sources & verification
- TED Europa — TA936 Airborne Counter-UAS contract notice
- Alpine Eagle website
- https://www.munich-startup.de/en/118437/alpine-eagle-expands-production/
- https://dronelife.com/2026/03/19/alpine-eagle-sentinel-counter-drone-production/
- https://www.xponential-europe.de/vis-content/event-xponential2026/exh-xponential2026.3056972/XPONENTIAL-Europe-2026-Alpine-Eagle-GmbH-Paper-xponential2026.3056972-EJhdSGYtSlKrd1ewdjmamg.pdf
- https://www.xponential-europe.de/vis-content/event-xponential2026/exh-xponential2026.3056972/XPONENTIAL-Europe-2026-Alpine-Eagle-GmbH-Paper-xponential2026.3056972-dZBpYVfjQAKjOIPLcvvTwg.pdf
- https://www.xponential-europe.de/vis-content/event-xponential2026/exh-xponential2026.3056972/XPONENTIAL-Europe-2026-Alpine-Eagle-GmbH-Paper-xponential2026.3056972-4ebG6vhTQsqGmCbakMcuXw.pdf
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aerospace-and-defence-news_defence-uavs-drone-activity-7361290438357536768-4jcs
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/alpine-eagle-secures-funding-from-european-backers-for-counter-drone-tech-amid-rising-threats/
- https://bavovna.ai/manufactures/alpine-eagle/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/defence-finance-monitor_alpine-eagle-gmbh-strategic-technological-activity-7392604985781452800-0YPN
- https://app.dealroom.co/companies/alpine_eagle
- https://thedefensepost.com/2025/06/13/drone-companies-ranking-2025/80/
- https://alpineeagle.com/about-us/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpineeagle
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4CSOZyX6s
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alpineeagle_what-to-expect-from-alpine-eagle-in-2026-activity-7414984285159616512-vVLn