Rune Technologies

Rune identifies July 4, 2024 as its founding date. David Tuttle and Peter Goldsborough established it to address military logistics dependent on fragmented whiteboards, spreadsheets and manual reporting. Its TyrOS platform covers inventory, equipment, personnel and distribution, taking its name from the Norse deity Týr.⁠[1]

The company announced $6.2 million in seed funding led by a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry’s American Dynamism team to support its military logistics software development.⁠[2]

Rune announced integration with Palantir’s Defense OSDK. The engineering teams connected sustainment data models to TyrOS and demonstrated bidirectional exchange of logistics reports and supply classifications with Palantir Gaia and AIP, reducing duplicate data entry across systems.⁠[3]

Rune announced a $24 million Series A led by Human Capital, with Pax VC, Washington Harbour Partners and existing investors participating. It reported raising more than $30 million during the preceding year, supporting engineering recruitment, product development and expansion to additional military branches.⁠[4]

The company announced a $2 million Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract under the Army Applications Laboratory’s PORTAL project. The planned 18-month effort with the 1st Cavalry Division would test TyrOS and its integration with existing command and logistics systems as a development and validation program.⁠[5]

Rune announced a five-year, $99 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering TyrOS and associated services through individual task orders. The stated amount describes the procurement framework and should not be equated with recognized revenue or payments already received.⁠[6]

TyrSense is the company’s first hardware product, using near-field communication tags to record cargo or personnel handoffs. Locations come from scanning devices rather than GPS inside the tags. Records can be retained offline and synchronized later for asset and handoff management.⁠[7]

The U.S. Army reported that the 1st Cavalry Division tested Rune’s digital maintenance tools at Fort Hood. Soldiers used tablets to consult vehicle maintenance information and record faults for mechanics’ review and parts requests. This was a specific trial, rather than evidence of deployment across all units.⁠[8]

Rune announced that TyrOS had been selected for production deployment with I Corps under the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control initiative. This followed prototype work with the 4th and 25th Infantry Divisions. The announcement distinguished earlier exercise-based trials from the production phase.⁠[9]

SalesforceSalesforceSalesforce is a U.S. enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, providing cloud applications, data platforms and AI agent tools centered on customer relationship management (CRM).Open the full entry announced an agreement to acquire Rune, expecting completion in fiscal Q4 2027, subject to customary closing conditions.⁠[10]

CEO David Tuttle served in the U.S. Army and worked on command-and-control hardware at AndurilAnduril IndustriesAnduril Industries is a defense technology company headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, United States, co-founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and several former Palantir and Oculus employees. It develops autonomous drones, unmanned undersea vehicles, border surveillance towers, counter-drone systems, and the Lattice command-and-control software, and builds its own large-scale weapons manufacturing facilities. As of May 2026, the company was valued at $61 billion.Open the full entry. CTO Peter Goldsborough worked on PyTorch and real-time data processing at Facebook before software and machine-learning platform roles at Anduril.⁠[2]

Rune combines software, sensors and data-ingestion tools to consolidate inventory, personnel, equipment and distribution information. Its Saga assistant offers natural-language interaction and workflow support, with human operators retained in decision-making, according to the company’s product description.⁠[11]

TyrOS is designed for limited or interrupted connectivity, caching critical data locally and prioritizing synchronization when connections return. Tyr provides the main interface, while TyrTac offers mobile recording and scanning. Its edge-to-cloud design reduces dependence on continuous network access.⁠[12]