Founders / Eliot Pence
Eliot Pence
Eliot Pence is the founder and CEO of Dominion Dynamics, a defence and security AI company based in Ottawa. Dominion Dynamics had raised C$164M across 3 rounds as of November 2026, most recently a C$139M Series A in June 2026 led by Georgian. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Dominion Dynamics in September 2026.
Founder/CEO of Dominion Dynamics.
Eliot Pence is also an investor in the Index: Eliot Pence investor page.
Dominion Dynamics
Defence autonomy: Autonomous Collaborative Platform (sovereign wingman) + Arctic surveillance.
- Role
- Founder/CEO
- HQ
- Ottawa, ON
- Founded
- 2025
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- C$164M
- Latest round
- Series A, Jun 30, 2026
- Website
- defendthedominion.com
Investors: Georgian, Valor Equity Partners, Expeditions, Lakestar, OMERS, BDC StrongNorth Fund, RBC, Deloitte Ventures, and 8 more
In the newsletter
- CanadianAI: Six AI startups got funded this week, and Ottawa's data centre principlesSep 8, 2026
- CanadianAI: AMD buys Taalas, and Alberta pitches data centres as digital refineriesAug 11, 2026
- CanadianAI: The State of Canadian AI, H1 2026Jul 28, 2026
- Canadian AI: Two acquisitions in a week, Cohere brands the EY Centre, and Ottawa reveals six AI pillarsMay 5, 2026
- Canadian AI: Defence AI has a moment, and 93% of companies are using AI but only 2% can prove it's working.Apr 7, 2026
- Canadian AI: Cohere's opensource voice model tops the leaderboard, and governments open the chequebookMar 31, 2026
- Canadian AI: Signs of vertical AI consolidation, and our love of robots and drones.Mar 10, 2026
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Data as of November 10, 2026.