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[James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james0thomas/) and [Cyriel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyriel-notteboom/) here to introduce [Radical](https://www.radicalaero.com/)!\n\nRadical makes high altitude solar-powered aircraft. Our aircraft are able to fly continuously in the stratosphere without landing. They provide an inexpensive, zero-emissions way to connect and observe earth like never before.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68187&key=user_uploads/1045182/65f89115-af17-4432-ae79-3fcbeb7b2bc5)\n\n### **Why Solar aircraft?**\n\nOur aircraft is designed to fly over specific areas for months, carrying various payloads for tasks like imagery, sensing, and telecommunications. What we’re building behaves like a drone in some ways, and like a satellite in other ways. Much like satellites, we’re able to provide service for long periods of time, but we’re also much closer to users (we fly at around 70,000 ft / 20 km altitude) and able to maneuver or remain over an area of interest. This makes what we’re building really well suited to applications that require continuous coverage or high-resolution/bandwidth data. Applications include:\n\n* Providing cell service or internet coverage\n* Aerial imagery and mapping\n* Meteorology and atmospheric sensing\n* Emergency response\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68187&key=user_uploads/1045182/893208ea-fa0f-46bc-9dc7-b93042439b94)\n\n### **How it works**\n\nOur aircraft is battery electric and driven by propellers. It has a large wing for high aerodynamic efficiency and to generate the necessary lift required to fly in the thin air of the stratosphere. The wing is covered in solar cells, during the day, these power the aircraft and charge its batteries. Through the night, battery energy is deployed to continue flight. We repeat this process daily, enabling us to fly for many months without needing to land. 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We’re [Dan](https://linkedin.com/in/x46085), [Sascha](https://linkedin.com/in/sascha-wise), [Andrei](https://linkedin.com/in/andrei-khvalko), [Tom](https://linkedin.com/in/tomgurka), and [Akhil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akhil-velagapudi/) from [Elodin](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29381). \n\nDrawing experience from roles at AstroForge, Google, Salesforce, Spatial, and several startups. We discovered that the rapid iteration in cloud software was missing in the field of aerospace, so we were compelled to make the development experience better.\n\n---\n\n### **Problem**\n\nIf you want to build an autonomous drone today, you've only got a few options when it comes to testing.\n\n* You can write your control system, flash it to your flight computer, launch the drone, and watch it crash over and over again. \n* You can agonize over setting up a complex simulation using MATLAB, Gazebo, or something homegrown.\n\nThose choices are time-consuming, complex, and costly.\n\nNow, imagine you are building a satellite or an eVTOL aircraft; you have no choice but to set up a complicated simulation.\n\n---\n\n### **Solution**\n\nHow does Elodin prevent this complexity?\\\n**We don’t; we just do it for you.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77547&key=user_uploads/1618322/9f285018-486c-4602-adb3-43297bf75961)\n\nCongrats! You can now simulate your drone's control system easily, but that's not enough. What if a massive windstorm comes around? What if the neighborhood dog decides to take a bite out of one of the propellers? You need to test your control system for any situation you can imagine.\n\n**Enter** - [Monte Carlo Testing](https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/monte-carlo-simulation/#:\\~:text=The%20Monte%20Carlo%20simulation%20is,on%20a%20choice%20of%20action.)\n\nMonte Carlo testing is when you run a simulation multiple times with randomized initial conditions. For example, you could run your simulation with randomized wind speeds.\n\nElodin makes running Monte Carlo simulations seamless, through our cloud platform. We let you run 100,000s of simultaneous simulations right from the comfort of your laptop. \n\nOur dream is that you run a full Monte Carlo test of your control system every time you push code to GitHub. Historically, this would be very costly and difficult to achieve.\n\n---\n\n### **What Elodin is**\n\n🐍 **Python physics library** - A toolkit for building custom physics engines using the GPU, imagine Tensorflow, but for Physics\n\n🎲 **Monte Carlo Cloud Runner** - A cloud runner that enables you to run your simulation in a scalable Monte Carlo fashion\n\n🌎 **3D Viewer** -  A live-reloading 3d viewer to share, inspect, and analyze your simulations\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77547&key=user_uploads/1618322/d2e5c348-a7f8-47c4-8522-1025a8d966dc)\n\n**Try out our Alpha!** We have an early alpha sandbox prototype that showcases the real-time editing experience of Elodin but does not include our customizable physics engine or Monte Carlo support.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77547&key=user_uploads/1618322/effd2707-d83b-4dc4-9c1f-deea7f65fb74)\n\n---\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n**Reach Out:** If you work with drones, satellites, or anything else with a control system, [schedule a call with our CEO, Dan](https://calendly.com/dan-elodin/30min), to discover how Elodin can streamline your design and testing processes\n\n**Share Your Insights:** We value your perspective! If you have any feedback or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you. Your insights are crucial to shaping the future of Elodin.\n\n**Connect Us:** Even if Elodin is not the perfect fit for your needs, you may know someone who could benefit from our platform. If you have connections in aerospace or related industries, we'd greatly appreciate sharing our website/demo with them or even better a direct introduction to [founders@elodin.systems](mailto:founders@elodin.systems)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KAl-elodin-ci-cd-for-aerospace", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-01-16T14:54:27.097Z" } ] }, { "id": 29589, "name": "Theseus", "slug": "theseus", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/05b004a38c0a5df5a4e151b258151cd9a38f08c8.png", "website": "https://theseus.us", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Theseus builds visual navigation software for GPS-denied drone operations. Using onboard cameras, inertial sensors, and satellite reference imagery, our system computes position fixes entirely passively. The system is entirely self contained, can't be jammed and has no RF signature.", "one_liner": "GPS Denied Navigation for Drones", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Drones", "launched_at": 1725406335, "tags": [ "Robotics", "Drones", "Defense" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Drones" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/theseus", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/theseus.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/theseustech/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/05b004a38c0a5df5a4e151b258151cd9a38f08c8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1290514, "full_name": "Ian Laffey", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "GPS-denied nav for drones", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ian-laffey-943200247", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ilaffey2", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0dea34f6fa9fe3e815c86e9a875ee467ffc01ab0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 917795, "full_name": "Sacha Lévy", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Sacha Lévy is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Theseus Technology Corporation, where he develops visual navigation systems that enable drones to operate autonomously without GPS.\n\nBefore founding Theseus, he was a PhD student in Computer Science at Yale University, where his research applied large language models to biological data and was published in top machine learning conferences. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from McGill University.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sacha-levy", "x_url": "https://x.com/sachalevy3", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d81061c1de4f0c0f74d5e91ca8625a9b5c3d1446.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 92386, "title": "Lead Robotics Software Engineer, Localization", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/theseus/jobs/yUlD33Z-lead-robotics-software-engineer-localization", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Robotics", "salary_range": "$200K - $300K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "C++", "Python", "Linux" ] }, { "id": 92621, "title": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/theseus/jobs/NYFHBhe-forward-deployed-software-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$80K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "C++", "Python" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/defense-tech-theseus-landed-y-combinator-the-us-special-forces-and-4-3m-from-a-tweet/", "date": "Apr 17, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83768, "title": "Theseus: GPS Denied Navigation for Drones", "tagline": "Our Visual Navigation System is a replacement for GPS that works with any drone.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/a1856391-04dc-473d-92dd-9ad6c8a8cb95)\n\nSix months ago we did a hackathon, this month we sold to SOCOM. Our Visual Navigation System (VNS) uses cameras, an inertial measurement unit, and pre-loaded satellite imagery to determine it’s position and send a fake GPS signal to any drone. Integrations typically take <30min.\n\n### How It Started\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/3f680d0f-91e3-4f9e-bf5f-212a076df8fa)\n\nIn February, [Carl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlscho) was a Senior at Stanford, [Sacha](https://linkedin.com/in/sacha-levy) was a PhD student at Yale, and [Ian](https://linkedin.com/in/ian-laffey-943200247) was working with a British celebrity. After our post went viral, we spent weeks talking with troops on the ground, drone manufacturers, and DoD.\n\nWe learned that:\n\n\\- The front lines of Ukraine are 100% GPS-denied\n\n\\- Cheap, DIY drones are extremely effective but typically rely on GPS\n\n\\- Existing GPS alternatives are extremely heavy and extremely expensive\n\nWe set out to create a low-cost, low-weight replacement for GPS that works with any drone.\n\n### How It’s Going\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/edd612ed-a0d4-421d-afe4-36931183b93f)\n\nOur first customer in the Special Forces has enabled us to push our VNS to its limits, and the results have been impressive. Here are a few excerpts from a memorandum written by the Captain we work with:\n\n_“Having tested the Theseus’ VizNav system for a week, I am convinced that their technology presents the best solution for a current, and ever-expanding urgent operational need.”_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/edd4eb3e-a568-4519-84a8-de2020556437)\n\n_“As a company, Theseus has shown a willingness to seek the ground truth from the operator and make improvements based on these recommendations immediately. The progress they have made with limited funding gives me incredible confidence that they act quicker and more efficiently than any other vendors we have worked with.”_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/7fe82322-4001-49c7-b9ab-255c2a9174d6)\n\nDue to the sensitive nature of our product, technical details and customer-specific information in this post will be limited. We are happy to discuss results in more detail privately.\n\n### Going Forward\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/5acb4bc0-1658-47f2-83ef-38d0dd6d3601)\n\nAmerica is way behind. The current demand for drones in Ukraine is 1-2 million yearly. Every country in the world sees this and is in the process of building out its arsenal. Our product affordably enables an entirely new capability set for every one of these platforms.\n\nWe have sold units to multiple customers, have six-figure LOIs from large drone manufacturers, integrations scheduled, and eight figures in funding for our VNS requested by the DoD for FY25.\n\nThe West needs to build millions of drones, and all of those drones need Theseus.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83768&key=user_uploads/1290514/3f997243-9cf5-4868-9a58-fda72313a613)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ln6-theseus-gps-denied-navigation-for-drones", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2024-09-04T22:35:57.651Z" } ] }, { "id": 30704, "name": "Albacore Inc.", "slug": "albacore-inc", "former_names": [ "Albacore Ocean Systems, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/136331286874ea99fbd7e2a7b2acfee659b0c7bf.png", "website": "https://www.albacore.inc", "all_locations": "Philadelphia, PA, USA", "long_description": "Albacore Inc. builds mass-producible long-range drone submarines. In the era of autonomous warfare, we support military operators with underwater systems that can traverse oceans and be deployed at scale.", "one_liner": "Drone submarines", "team_size": 18, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Defense", "launched_at": 1753760756, "tags": [ "Drones", "Maritime", "Defense" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Defense" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/albacore-inc", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/albacore-inc.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "Philadelphia", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/107689623", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/136331286874ea99fbd7e2a7b2acfee659b0c7bf.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2629924, "full_name": "Dante Vaisbort", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "UChicago Classics major turned repeat defense tech startup founder from Los Angeles. Previous company developed autonomous system-focused power technologies for the DoD, now building the world's best underwater drones.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dante-vaisbort/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f9914774477ce8771c2ff1c85e49a1b594c91049.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2763448, "full_name": "John Huddleston", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a New York City native who graduated from Brown University with a degree in mechanical engineering. I spent 3 years advising Fortune 500 aerospace and defense companies and senior Navy leadership on autonomous systems before founding Albacore.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-huddleston-3584121b7/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f5635ae8e5111b0a37558a03f311bc8aae94464d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Exclusive: YC-Backed Albacore Swims Into $6.5M Seed Round", "url": "https://www.tectonicdefense.com/exclusive-yc-backed-albacore-swims-into-6-5m-seed-round/", "date": "Oct 16, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 92587, "title": "🌊 Albacore – Autonomous micro-submarines", "tagline": "Building the technology to make maritime invasions impossible", "body": "### **TLDR:**\n\nHey everyone! We’re [**John**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-huddleston-3584121b7/) (engineer and unmanned systems expert) and [**Dante**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dante-vaisbort/) (repeat defense founder). [**Albacore Inc.**](https://www.albacore.inc/) is building the next generation of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to prevent maritime invasions. Our first product is **Ghostfin:** a 6-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle that can patrol over 1,000 nautical miles undetected and massively damage hostile watercraft.\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6SYgIsDQs**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6SYgIsDQs)\n\n### [**🏴‍☠️**](https://emojipedia.org/pirate-flag) The Problem: America doesn’t have any long-range underwater strike weapons.\n\nIn the case of an Indo-Pacific conflict, our military’s existing suite of autonomous underwater vehicles is woefully unprepared. Today’s unmanned underwater vehicles are short-range, expensive, and overly mission-specific. Unlike the Ukrainians or even the Houthis, America doesn’t have underwater vehicles built for attack missions in service.\n\n### **🚀 Our Solution: Low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles that can travel 10x further.**\n\nRange is the key constraint in massive bodies of water like the Pacific Ocean. The Albacore team has spent years working on power technology and manufacturing for unmanned systems, and can build Ghostfin far more efficiently than anything on the market today by using a combination of highly scalable in-house-designed and off-the-shelf components.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92587&key=user_uploads/2629924/1f9c199a-487c-4de0-848e-94ae31db9ba6)\n\n### 👥 **Our Team:**\n\n**John Huddleston, Co-Founder:** John is a mechanical engineer who spent 3 years at the Boston Consulting Group advising government agencies and Fortune 500 companies in the defense industrial base. He worked on >$9b in unmanned systems manufacturing and procurement efforts alongside senior military leadership.\n\n**Dante Vaisbort, Co-Founder:** Dante is a second-time founder in defense, who has won and led more than >$10m in DoD contract efforts for his first company, Haylon Technologies, which builds power technology for autonomous systems and is still active.\n\nWe also have an incredible engineering team hailing from Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson etc. who have won underwater vehicle competitions and have a combined 20 years experience on space flight technology, autonomous vehicle AI, medical robotics, and robosubs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92587&key=user_uploads/2629924/550044dc-1333-486f-8877-384a1270c501)\n\n### **😇 Our Ask:**\n\nPlease reach out to us if you can help us deliver solutions to the Navy, Special Operations Forces, intelligence community, or allied foreign militaries. If you know any commercial entities who may want this, that’s great too!\n\nStay tuned for us to blow stuff up in the next one. In the meantime, drop us a line at [**founders@albacore.inc**](mailto:founders@albacore.inc)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O5L-albacore-autonomous-micro-submarines", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-07-30T21:53:17.995Z" } ] }, { "id": 30934, "name": "Tornyol", "slug": "tornyol", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/32e3f0b4a6932eaa071b0b63031b269de4048c47.png", "website": "https://tornyol.com/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Tornyol builds micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. We use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers. Because these drones are so cheap and fast, we will lower the cost of mosquito control by 100x which will enable the eradication of mosquitoes from cities, saving more than a million people each year from Malaria, West Nile, Dengue, etc. ", "one_liner": "We build micro-drones that kill mosquitoes. ", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Consumer Electronics", "launched_at": 1761986194, "tags": [ "Hardware", "Robotics", "Drones" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Consumer Electronics" ], "regions": [ "France", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tornyol", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/tornyol.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "Paris", "country": "FR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tornyol/", "x_url": "https://x.com/tornyolsystems", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "github.com/mosquitorgnole", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/32e3f0b4a6932eaa071b0b63031b269de4048c47.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1250342, "full_name": "Alex Toussaint", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Built one of the first in-air phased array sonar when I was 18. Worked on aerial guidance and navigation. Now building micro-drones that kill mosquitoes.\n\nhttps://alextoussaint.com\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-toussaint-51a439189/", "x_url": "https://x.com/alextoussss", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e686ab9fccb273e6202af5ff0020bbd13e1e13f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2515354, "full_name": "Clovis Piedallu", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "French engineer, working on autonomous mosquito-killing micro-drones ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/clovispiedallu/", "x_url": "https://x.com/ClovisPiedallu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dc5e38c6e3ab9641c13073fea9dee85000534f00.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95287, "title": "Tornyol: micro-drones that kill mosquitoes", "tagline": "Enjoy mosquito-free evenings thanks to Tornyol", "body": "TLDR We’re eradicating mosquitoes (700k people killed each year) with micro-drones.\n\nHey YC!\n\n[Clovis Piedallu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clovispiedallu/) and [Alex Toussaint](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-toussaint-51a439189/) are building [Tornyol](https://tornyol.com/), **a micro-drone that kills mosquitoes**. We use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers. Because these drones are so cheap and fast, we could lower the cost of mosquito control by 100x to enable the eradication of malaria.\n\nOur upcoming product is a micro-drone + base station that patrols your garden 24/7 and eliminates any mosquito in the zone. After a few days of action, you’ll notice that you can enjoy mosquito-free evenings and dinners. Enjoy a mosquito-free life for just $50/month (if you save your spot **right now for just $100**)!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDa9pFzeJvE\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95287&key=user_uploads/1250342/2697e87e-51cb-405e-bf8b-e4446880f4cc)\n\n# How it started\n\nAlex has been passionate about ultrasonic sonars for a while, building [one of the first air-gapped ultrasonic phased array sonars.](https://www.alextoussaint.com/2021-04-28_How-I-built-an-ultrasonic-3d-scanner.html) Alex then worked at MBDA Systems, supplier of UK-FR missiles where he did outstanding work in navigation and control. That’s when long-time friend [@Clovis Piedallu](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2515354) and him had the (at first) stupid idea of building mosquito-killing drones. After proving from napkin math that this could lead to mosquito eradication, we got a $28k grant from [Scott Alexander, Vitalik Buterin](https://manifund.org/projects/build-anti-mosqu) and [some big twitter buzz.](https://x.com/alextoussss/status/1778460625196261863) Since, we’ve made enormous strides in the field including the first detection and tracking of a mosquito with an ultrasonic phased array, plus some fancy algorithms which are detailed more [here](https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/supercon-2024-killing-mosquitoes-with-freaking-drones-and-sonar). We’ve made a lot of progress since in the control department, but can’t share much more without nuking an ongoing patent. The TLDR of that is **we believe we can eradicate mosquitoes from a square kilometer of land with just 10 40-grams drones, slashing the cost of mosquito control by 100x**\n\n# The tech, with a few more details\n\nWe send an ultrasonic pulse using a regular ultrasonic transmitter (the one you can find in the HC-SR04 arduino modules, or on cark park assist sensors) then listen for the echoes using an array of smartphone microphones. This phased array of smartphone microphone allows us to get a directional recording of all echoes in the scene. To classify the echoes, we plot a spectrogram of the echoes as a function of time. Whenever a mosquito beats its wings, the movement produces irregular doppler effect. By measuring that alternating doppler effect, we get a 2D image that’s unique to each mosquito. We then detect the species and sex of the target we have in front of us. Here’s what these signatures look like.\n\n**Wasp (phase, STFT, FFT)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95287&key=user_uploads/1250342/e34717d5-91b3-435f-b7b3-33eacfa00d77)\n\n**Mosquito (phase, STFT, FFT)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95287&key=user_uploads/1250342/21bf0588-a122-48c8-9a62-60426d8e7b94)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95287&key=user_uploads/1250342/8bb71855-e1f9-4ea0-922f-06da6690c1c5)\n\nOur phased array sonar (Xilinx XC7A100T and 380 PDM Microphones). We’ve miniaturized it since.\n\nThen, by using some very clever control algorithms, we ram our autonomous tinywhoop into the mosquitoes and away from the walls.\n\n# Our current development status\n\nMost systems are working in isolation, and we’re doing a push to have them all working together. Our miniaturized DSP+Controls processor is currently in the PCB factory, and all algorithms have been tested either on separate benches or in simulation. We’re currently killing mosquitoes in simulation, and are working hard to kill them in the real world.\n\n# Asks\n\nMosquitoes are a terrible problem worldwide **700k people killed each year, 700M catching a mosquito-borne disease and 4 billion people at risk of Dengue**.\n\nWe’re looking for early adopters for who mosquitoes are a big nuisance to proof-test our first drones when they work before we deploy them to areas where failure’s not an option. If that sounds like you, please pre-order and enjoy all the perks (limited edition color, 30% discount) that come from our small $100 refundable reservation.\n\n# CTA\n\n[tornyol.com](http://tornyol.com): $100 refundable deposit to get exclusive, early and discounted acess to our solution.\n\n[founders@tornyol.com](mailto:founders@tornyol.com):\\_for any contacts to big businesses, government entities and NGOs who could be clients.\n\nLooking forward to your questions!\n\n[Clovis Piedallu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/clovispiedallu/) and [Alex Toussaint](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-toussaint-51a439189/) for a mosquito-free world.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Omt-tornyol-micro-drones-that-kill-mosquitoes", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2025-11-07T17:48:40.465Z" } ] }, { "id": 31180, "name": "Seeing Systems", "slug": "seeing-systems", "former_names": [ "Seeing Systems Ltd", "Seeing Systems", "Seeing Systems Ltd" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d8e226478cb43c163b19e22186c3bab3bdb9668.png", "website": "https://www.seeing-systems.com", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "We engineer inexpensive, autonomous strike drones designed to operate in the most contested combat environments on Earth!\r\n\r\nBy combining true hardware modularity with an agentic control system that lowers cognitive load on operators, we enable faster upgrades, broader adoption, and more than 2x reduction in lifecycle cost.\r\n\r\nOur customers and partners include the UK Royal Marine Commandos, several other units in the UK, and 4 other NATO forces, and we are currently shipping prototypes for iterative feedback.\r\n\r\nThink of us as Anduril, but with worse weather, and better banter.", "one_liner": "Modular AI-Commanded Drones for Defence", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Defense", "launched_at": 1768422348, "tags": [ "Hardware", "Drones", "Defense", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Defense" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/seeing-systems", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/seeing-systems.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/seeing-systems", "x_url": "https://x.com/S2_INC", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d8e226478cb43c163b19e22186c3bab3bdb9668.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/477d6d86739655ae1980c598667eb5d2363a8752.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2822007, "full_name": "Alexander Le Maitre", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I've been obsessed with unmanned systems since I was a kid. 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By combining true hardware modularity with an agentic control system that lowers cognitive load on operators, we enable faster upgrades, broader adoption, and more than 2x reduction in lifecycle cost.\n\nOur customers and partners include the UK Royal Marine Commandos, several other units in the UK, and 4 other NATO forces, and we are currently shipping prototypes to Ukraine for iterative feedback.\n\n\n\n## **Problem**\n\nMilitary forces face two linked challenges:\n\n1. **Platform Obsolescence:** Fixed drones require replacement or major rebuilds whenever missions or threats evolve, driving high costs and slowing operational adaptation.\n2. **The One Pilot Problem:** One person can only control one drone at once, requiring full attention.\n\nCountless stories can be found of western drone systems becoming obsolete, needing to be shelved and eventually replaced.\n\nA Few Examples:\n\n* \n* \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97412&key=user_uploads/2822007/9dfb1275-b59e-4c17-9862-3a9d8a11534d)\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe build autonomous, modular drones that solve both problems at once:\n\n* **Modular hardware:** Swappable payloads, sensors, compute, and comms let one platform support strike, ISR, or swarm missions. Upgradable and effective year after year.\n* **Agentic autonomy:** Automates tasks like navigation and coordination, so operators with no prior training can use systems to their full effectiveness.\n\nHow do we know? Well, Forward Deployed Engineers. Giving each unit we work with a point of contact, we take feedback and integrate them into our system in a matter of hours. A close collaboration with the UK Royal Marines Commandos is actually what led to the development of this system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97412&key=user_uploads/2822007/7170ca7a-bd1d-4d2b-a6a7-f77ce762975e)\n\n## **The Team**\n\n**Matthew Le Maitre - Co-Founder, Software**\n\nFormer Jane Street Software Engineer and top-ranked CS graduate from the University of Cambridge. Matthew’s path started at the Mobile Robotics Lab at Cambridge, where he worked on autonomous systems and context-aware drones. 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Originally from the island of Guernsey, Alex now leads hardware development with a focus on building robust systems that help keep our people safe.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97412&key=user_uploads/2822007/dfc9b55c-c1b7-4ac3-a6bb-8e7760b2d006)\n\nIf you’re a military contractor, defense organisation or special forces unit looking for a real operational edge, contact us at [founders@seeing-systems.com](mailto:founders@seeing-systems.com) &[ www.seeing-systems.com](http://www.seeing-systems.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PLA-seeing-systems-modular-autonomous-drones-for-modern-warfare", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2026-02-02T21:03:43.432Z" } ] }, { "id": 31285, "name": "Brumby (Formerly GrazeMate)", "slug": "brumby", "former_names": [ "GrazeMate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7f64c3261f306e1859d503d40ad84601c127c82.png", "website": "https://brumby", "all_locations": "Sydney, NSW, Australia", "long_description": "Brumby builds autonomous drones that herd cattle.\r\n\r\nOn command, our drones fly to a paddock, position themselves around the mob, and move them where they need to go. 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They don’t blend in; they’re **visually obvious**\n\nThis makes traditional fixed-wing and quadcopter drones extremely detectable, and inadvertently easy to shoot down and run away from.\n\n\n\n---\n\nThis isn’t new. The U.S. used to lead flapping-wing flight, but **today, Europe and China are far ahead. Ornadyne is bringing the U.S. back into the lead.**\n\nWe're building autonomous ornithopters with hour-class flight times, low acoustic signatures, and natural bird-like flight. This makes Ornadyne's drones harder for humans and counter-UAS systems to detect, classify, and target.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100617&key=user_uploads/1504179/a361939c-74a4-427b-a2ef-a96f6cdc2884)\n\n---\n\n### The Founders:\n\n**Geourg’s** Master's thesis is built on 2+ years of research and development in flapping-wing drones. His work has received multiple awards through AIAA and IEEE conference publications. He is ex- NASA JPL, and ex-Astrolab, where he worked on Mars and lunar missions.\n\n**Armen** engineered Starship components at SpaceX and previously led machining at USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, helping the team set the amateur rocketry altitude world record at 144 km.\n\nBoth founders have been best friends since middle school.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100617&key=user_uploads/1504179/60143f25-5da7-45dd-93a0-0be77f9c5b45)\n\n### Ask:\n\nIf you work in defense tech or are building in the space, we’d love to connect. 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The materials we supply are the backbone of electric motors, sensors, speakers, hard drives, and electronics.\r\nOur process enables DFARS-compliant magnets for defense, aerospace, and industrial manufacturers who demand domestic supply without compromising on quality.\r\nOperations in Greater Boston, MA (Greentown Labs) and Columbus, IN.", "one_liner": "USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense. 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On January 1st, 20270, [regulation changes will make it illegal to deliver anything that walks, drives, or flies to US Defense if it contains a magnet produced in covered countries like China.](https://www.massmagnetics.com/comply) The domestic supply chain meant to replace it doesn't exist yet. **Mines take a decade to permit, and the ore they pull up leaves radioactive tailings behind, making permitting magnet mining a nightmare.**\n\nWe’re[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/energyeric)the founders, [Eric Silver](https://x.com/metalscontent) and [Matthew Grol](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-groll/)l (left and right in the pic below). We’ve known each other since grade school. Since then, Eric’s built multiple battery pilot production lines and materials science labs in the Midwest for NSF-funded companies. Matthew’s built exquisite aerospace gear including Moon-regolith melters and ultra-precise guidance systems for the world’s foremost labs at NASA, Draper, and MIT. **Together we’re making one bet: America's rare-earth problem isn't a mining problem.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110611&key=user_uploads/3652354/2046e9de-2db6-47e8-91fc-651e31e5a834)\n\n**Mass Magnetics’ unfair advantage is sitting in end-of-life electric vehicles, hard drives, and industrial equipment.** The team uses AI models and robotics trained on real scrap to sort metallurgy by exact grade and chemistry. Then, a rapid-sintering process takes that reclaimed mass to a finished magnet in 3 minutes, where conventional approaches take over 4 hours. The result is a magnet as strong as anything imported, with no radioactive footprint or bureaucratic permitting, fully compliant for US defense.\n\n**If you build robots, drones or motors visit our site and reach out at [outreach@massmagnetics.com](mailto:outreach@massmagnetics.com) and get your magnets.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110611&key=user_uploads/3652354/797eff3c-6d9d-4ffc-894b-664aece1ba74)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sm3-mass-magnetics-usa-made-magnets", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-08-18T14:30:00.079Z" } ] }, { "id": 32188, "name": "IMPACT Drones", "slug": "impact-drones", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7df3a5c9dfd6e7d9865e24f95f172c997a7183b.png", "website": "https://www.impact-drones.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "IMPACT builds autonomous interceptor drones that ship in sealed containers. The box sits at the site it protects, data centers, power grids, airports, bases, with no crew on the pad. When sensors cue a hostile drone, an interceptor pierces its own frangible lid, launches, and rams the target, guided by onboard vision that keeps working when GPS is jammed. Legacy effectors cost $1M+ per shot against $30k threats; ours cost less than the threat and scale with the swarm, the same class of interceptor already downing Shahed drones over Ukraine. Sites subscribe to protection instead of buying missiles, hardware, reloads and monitoring included: Air Defense as a Service. 180M+ USD in signed letters of intent.", "one_liner": "Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Defense", "launched_at": 1785702345, "tags": [ "Hardware", "Drones", "Swarm Robotics", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Defense" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/impact-drones", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/impact-drones.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/impactdrones", "x_url": "https://x.com/impactdrones", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c7df3a5c9dfd6e7d9865e24f95f172c997a7183b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 3245067, "full_name": "Jasper Lortije", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO, Impact Drones. 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Park the cell next to anything you need to keep running: it detects an incoming threat, launches and physically neutralizes the incoming aerial threat. [www.impact-drones.com](http://www.impact-drones.com)\n\n**OUR LAUNCH VIDEO**\n\n\n\n**TL;DR:** Half this batch is building AI agents. Your agents live in data centers. And these sites are now under threat. In March, drones took three AWS data centers offline in the Middle East and a dozen core cloud services with them. **Amazon lost 200 million USD in one day.** We sell a box you put next to anything you'd rather keep: an interceptor pierces its own lid, and the threat stops existing. We'll keep your agents running.\n\n**Why now:** The drone threat went industrial and air defense math didn't.\n\n**A single patriot missile costs more than 1m USD to shoot down a drone worth 30k USD.** Critical infrastructure needs a defense system that can be deployed at scale without losing the cost-per-interception battle.\n\n**What we're building:** a cell holding autonomous interceptors, always charged, always ready for when a threat arises. Unlike jamming, our system physically intercepts the threat. Unlike conventional air-defense systems, it is designed specifically for protecting civilian infrastructure affordably and at scale.\n\n**Why us:** two founders who ship hardware fast.\n\n[@Jasper Lortije](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/3245067): aerospace engineer (MSc at TU Delft), previously founded a Dutch company building GNSS-denied visual navigation for autonomous systems.\n\n[@Alessandro Fiume](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/3677968): sales and operations, ex Bloomberg, MSBA at Columbia.\n\n**Our ask:** intros to the people who own the airspace problem: data center security and infrastructure leads (hyperscalers and neoclouds especially, your uptime now has an air defense dependency), airport operations directors, and energy grid security teams. And if you're building agents: we're literally your uptime insurance, come say hi. [jasper@impact-drones.com](mailto:jasper@impact-drones.com) & [alessandro@impact-drones.com](mailto:alessandro@impact-drones.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SKo-impact-drones-air-defense-as-a-service-for-civilian-infrastructure", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-08-04T18:02:22.616Z" } ] }, { "id": 32586, "name": "Greypoint Industries", "slug": "greypoint-industries", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0d5898f7b8fc2ee6fc19f6de3dae045123c7608.png", "website": "https://greypointindustries.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build LEGION, a drone swarm that identifies, geolocates, and tracks every emitter on the battlefield using the enemy’s own radio signals. 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Today, soldiers have no way to reliably geolocate operators on the battlefield.\n\nGreypoint Industries built LEGION, a drone swarm that identifies, geolocates, and tracks every emitter on the battlefield using the enemy’s own radio signals. LEGION enables our warfighters to precisely track previously obscured targets like jammers, command posts, and drone operators so they can proactively respond to threats instead of reacting to them.\n\nGreypoint has just won a contract with the Canadian Government, demoed with the Armed Forces, and successfully geolocated a target using their aerial platform. The founding team brings experience from the Canadian Infantry, General Dynamics, Bosch Quantum Sensing, and TerraSense Analytics.\n\nDefend the West. 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