Nathan Nwachuku is Co-Founder and CEO of Terra Industries, a Nigerian defense-tech company building autonomous drones, sentry towers, and unmanned ground vehicles to protect Africa's critical infrastructure from terrorism and armed threats.

A self-taught physicist and techno-industrialist from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Nathan dropped out of a software engineering scholarship at Carleton University at age 18 to pursue entrepreneurship, previously co-founding Klas, an edtech platform backed by Techstars.

Nathan's guiding mission is to build Africa's first sovereign defense prime, reducing the continent's dependence on foreign security systems from Russia, China, and the West, keeping both hardware and data under African control.

Terra Industries, formerly known as Terrahaptix, raised a $34M total seed round backed by 8VC, Lux Capital, Valor Equity Partners, and notable angels including Jared Leto, with Eliot Pence (former Anduril executive) as the company's first investor.

Terra's systems protect assets valued at approximately $11 billion across eight African countries and Canada, and Bloomberg named Terra Industries one of the 25 African startups to watch in 2026.