FILE · morse-corpOpen-source file · BattlePolicy ProStatus Private, employee-owned; no institutional or outside investors — founder Andreas Kellas has stated publicly the company grew to 150+ employees 'with no outside funding and no non-employee shareholders.' Revenue comes from US government (primarily Army and DARPA) contracts.Unverified
MORSE Corp (legal name MORSECORP, Inc.; full name expansion 'Mission Oriented Rapid Solution Engineering')
AI/Autonomy — defense software & engineering servicesUSPrivate, employee-owned; no institutional or outside investors — founder Andreas Kellas has stated publicly the company grew to 150+ employees 'with no outside funding and no non-employee shareholders.' Revenue comes from US government (primarily Army and DARPA) contracts.
A self-funded, employee-owned Cambridge, Massachusetts engineering firm that has quietly built an eight-figure US Army and DARPA autonomy business without ever taking outside investment.
HQ
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Headcount
approx. 150-200150 per 2022 founder statement; 177-195 per 2025 third-party aggregators
Total raised
$0 — no outside/institutional funding; employee-owned
Valuation
undisclosed / not applicableno outside cap table
Stage
Private, employee-owned, profitable via government contracts
Background
Andreas Kellas founded MORSE Corp (Mission Oriented Rapid Solution Engineering, legally MORSECORP, Inc.) in October 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after leading the Unmanned Air Systems business area at MIT's Draper Laboratory. Co-founders Adam Ray and Bobby Cohanim joined him at the outset.
The company built a multi-disciplinary practice spanning artificial intelligence/machine learning, autonomy, mission planning, guidance-navigation-control, computer vision, and unmanned aerial/undersea vehicle development, serving what it calls the 'US National Security Ecosystem.' It has since opened satellite offices in Arlington, Virginia (2024) and Seattle, Washington (2025), and describes itself as an employee-owned company with no outside shareholders.
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