HYPERKELP INC
Autonomous sensor platforms that fuse acoustic/infrasound and electro-optical signals with deep learning classifiers to detect and track hypersonic threats through cloud cover
- Sector
- Defense
- Headquarters
- ENCINITAS, AS
- Total capital
- $4.4M
- Federal grants
- $1.4M
- 3 awards · 2023–2024
- Rank in peer group#40 of 66
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $3M
- 3 awards · Defense
- Rank in Defense#622 of 1442
- Granted patents
- 0
- 1 pending
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal contractDefense · Covert Ocean Monitoring Buoy System (combs)$1.8M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Research And Development$998K
- Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$998K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · SBIR Phase I: Feasibility of an L5 GPS-Based Tsunami Detection and Alerting System$275K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Buoy Based Distant Early Warning for Hypersonics$138K
- Federal contractDefense · SBIR Ph I$236K
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Standing among 66 peers
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- Federal grantsBelow median
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Founders and team
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
Claim this profile to add your teamWhat it has protected
USPTO · 0 granted of 1- PendingHypersonic And Underwater Threat-sensing SystemUSPTOApplication 17303468
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Regulatory activity · Defense
- Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements ThresholdsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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