[ { "id": 1016, "name": "Meter Feeder", "slug": "meter-feeder", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/add199c01e8e38b906c80074b660ab5bf6e88b25.png", "website": "http://www.meterfeeder.com", "all_locations": "Pittsburgh, PA, USA", "long_description": "Did you know that if your car is eligible for booting and towing in NYC, all of your registered vehicles are eligible? Now imagine you have thousands of vehicles in thousands of cities.\r\n\r\nWe make sure that your vehicles are compliant.", "one_liner": "Helping fleets find and pay parking tickets", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1447311916, "tags": [ "Unmanned Vehicle", "Payments", "Transportation", "Mobility" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2016", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "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/meter-feeder", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2016/meter-feeder.json", "year_founded": 2015, "city": "Pittsburgh", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/meter-feeder-inc", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/MeterFeeder", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/meterfeeder.inc", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/meterfeeder", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/add199c01e8e38b906c80074b660ab5bf6e88b25.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 109003, "full_name": "Jim Gibbs", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Software developer by trade. Professionally solve pain points.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-gibbs/0/8/4ab", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/heezo", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9d1d000c89576aa4e3426a7b5e9fc9a7dab64a48.jpg" }, { "user_id": 109938, "full_name": "Daniel Lopretto", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": null, "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-lopretto/4b/838/182", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/52c489627f3d8b3dd53afe57ed48db832b1e6698.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Parking platform Meter Feeder lands $2.6 million seed extension round", "url": "https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/inno/stories/fundings/2022/04/19/parking-platform-meter-feeder-lands-2-6-million.html", "date": "Apr 20, 2022" }, { "title": "Technical.ly Pittsburgh With its official Pittsburgh launch, Meter Feeder brings its parking payment app home - Technical.ly Pittsburgh", "url": "https://technical.ly/pittsburgh/2021/08/18/meter-feeder-jim-gibbs-parking-app/?fbclid=IwAR3vFfoZ5GKvrTefWsG4hbT13fh2FyRxcKhZyXDX7kcS1ZC73a2zClIZODQ", "date": "Aug 18, 2021" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 13140, "name": "Exosonic, Inc.", "slug": "exosonic-inc", "former_names": [ "Exosonic", "Inc.", "Exosonic" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/271f1ede7285afa6d625e1cb946615956221ce50.png", "website": "https://exosonic.com/", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Exosonic is an early-stage aerospace start-up based in Los Angeles, CA developing supersonic adversary air UAVs to support the adversary air training mission for both commercial and government customers. The goal is to mature these supersonic UAVs to become loyal wingmen (or collaborative combat aircraft) and eventually develop quiet supersonic airliners from the lessons learned and profits generated by the supersonic UAV product line. Founded in 2019, Exosonic has raised $4.5M+ in private capital and $2M+ in AFWERX funding. The team has 15 FTEs and is developing a subscale flight test vehicle to demonstrate autonomy and potentially crewed-uncrewed teaming with a first flight timeframe of Q2 2023. ", "one_liner": "Developing supersonic UAVs as a pathway to quiet supersonic flight", "team_size": 14, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "launched_at": 1588285488, "tags": [ "Drones", "Unmanned Vehicle", "Aerospace" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2020", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Aviation and Space" ], "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/exosonic-inc", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2020/exosonic-inc.json", "year_founded": 2019, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/66684898/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/flyexosonic", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/FlyExosonic/", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/exosonic", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/271f1ede7285afa6d625e1cb946615956221ce50.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 247164, "full_name": "Tim MacDonald", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of supersonic aircraft startup.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/timdmacd/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fc8f6a9cbc67a85e3c4c9e514e63545720836109.jpg" }, { "user_id": 247759, "full_name": "Norris Tie", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Norris is a Stanford MBA graduate (2019) and aerospace engineer from UCLA (2014), In between his BS and MBA, he spent three years working in aerospace as a propulsion engineer, all on vehicles that fly faster than the speed of sound. He’s been passionate about faster commercial flight since he was little and is dedicated to solving the problem. He has the academic and industry background, grit, and passion to build Exosonic and introduce a new boomless era of supersonic commercial aviation.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/norristie/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/782932a64c1a1a8e29443f8434e5bafe2b984a35.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Exosonic Completes Quiet Supersonic Airliner Conceptual Review; Closes $4M+ Seed Round", "url": "https://www.exosonic.com/post/exosonic-completes-quiet-supersonic-airliner-conceptual-review-closes-4m-seed-round", "date": "May 06, 2022" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 27361, "name": "Polymath Robotics", "slug": "polymath-robotics", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6f5a2035d19900b2a4411b03d2c1998b0aaa5e.png", "website": "http://www.polymathrobotics.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Polymath is building a general autonomy stack for cautious vehicles. Our software allows any industrial vehicle - whether it's a tractor in a field or a bulldozer in a mine, drive itself. We bundle together AI, ML, Controls, ROS, Safety and best-in-class deployment practices to enable our customers to tell automated vehicles to do via a REST API.\r\n\r\nWe're on more robots than we have engineers, are seeing our revenue (and robotic fleet) grow rapidly, and are looking for folks who want to help automate the world.", "one_liner": "General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles", "team_size": 25, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "launched_at": 1659110769, "tags": [ "Hard Tech", "Machine Learning", "Robotics", "Unmanned Vehicle", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Manufacturing and Robotics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": true, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/polymath-robotics.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/polymath-robotics/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/polymathrobots", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/polymath-robotics", "github_url": "https://github.com/polymathrobotics", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d6f5a2035d19900b2a4411b03d2c1998b0aaa5e.png", "app_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bf-public_profile/27421/app_video.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAQC4NIECAPVLLM2EU%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022709Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEHEaCXVzLXdlc3QtMiJGMEQCIERmcK8Cf9%2Btw509DI59PWqE38RRTAlvZa4J3JDwHNfvAiAayM%2BKkNtOvjgd758WgPB4q6%2BUu3dhFEeIBKJdEEYmHirlAwg5EAAaDDAwNjIwMTgxMTA3MiIMT2KDc6%2BsqQRelJt7KsIDHKXozlWP2zRm6TyaI63cZu7UdMNJI84LhfrBVoBzKOZrazhBds2e6DhqALWGgEHuhaH96sBW1vGKF0SZPA8JEf%2FhnbI%2B0LPups6efXBWO1aKfnU6HWjkfPemBseL1V1dBRWh3MHmM%2BS0wsfJmaYaFWTcHaaVraOkFgeuvtIGQt%2FnimlcxYe9MQMOeYiPnm5yfGLPkCnGOvHZGDepzR19xj6ZjRi9QZRcX734o%2BDyXGZIQOACA5etqDAXBP7fbW8udzjKK9cHEGPamT7IlaTLAWBWnDjL2T9zw8ZCXoeolYzeaw3DTEK0tdnm9pXjkPGWxrNUNlecD6CiG7M3gr2Lm8eody0o9pj5Ec9BIcJ09i9djYQp%2F9Qt3RQagWspbZEm0RIM98ukXmmQO%2Br5NwFl2BqP7h04EVZMR4%2FxuoUkyMfNGipkzTdDAKGOV2wo7LqFqinznpZBKbguQ%2Fg6wWy40kCNyoPguBPf8GYzzIvusP5x6bf1QHvMlXyb8ElzS4lScRKm7v5GhARAJq%2BveXuxU3aR2lwL84TF9HIpOZ6loG5wOggyMO5KqHtaunl14wjKV3M6InDmt6%2F5NLTGbL6N0P36MOn92tYGOqYB%2B%2FclWb0gxQJ%2FmXWJ%2FID3oboHUM%2BqcRMUObsJl1yosDN9kekbLFwXPJS0wjujDnQuGXhjbEK0yPyr8Dgq35lBDPMlxWRQ8upAxHpp%2F0cruekkJPyONG5qpVv25DqS52YxtylQ0pbERuY6rX1AFi5Hwd5%2FQJgU8TuncKO5FjbC0OPiim0nrZjMnv3t4R3u06MVK4%2FRj2yhCS4qwhYGeOsJdP79%2BCqZqQ%3D%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=2d77a18679f1e00728c184a75ac296cdaf10b92f8ba58f1c6ff59af4af5e4475", "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/03d7e2f03b4d93b6f9bd8dcadf40461a45f4ef53.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 136341, "full_name": "Stefan Seltz-Axmacher", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Robots that are buildable and valuable are the most magical.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanseltzaxmacher", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stefanesa", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3a976b8c7814c0a2985a3b21bdfae3f0e1cf5fd0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 920849, "full_name": "Ilia Baranov", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "There is a certain enchanting magic that comes from working with robots;\nBy waving our hands, we can make machines seem alive.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/iliabaranov", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c64fc8a7f715908988488379782f0e67bf6d8b88.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 90535, "title": "Associate, Customer Program Management", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics/jobs/M1qC4rT-associate-customer-program-management", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Product", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$100K - $125K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 94200, "title": "Senior Verification & Validation (V&V) Engineer - San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics/jobs/izf2VxL-senior-verification-validation-v-v-engineer-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Robotics", "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.02% - 0.05%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 112649, "title": "Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics/jobs/8sCtro4-account-executive", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$125K - $250K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 113108, "title": "Applications Engineer - San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics/jobs/Ii1hnp1-applications-engineer-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Robotics", "salary_range": "$113K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.03% - 0.06%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 116081, "title": "Autonomous Vehicle Test Specialist – San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polymath-robotics/jobs/KcVZbqK-autonomous-vehicle-test-specialist-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "QA engineer", "salary_range": "$70K - $100K", "equity_range": "0.01% - 0.03%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "The 30 Early-Stage Startups in 2026 Most Likely to Become Tech's Next Unicorns - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/the-30-early-stage-startups-in-2026-most-likely-to-become-techs-next-unicorns-2026-3#polymath-robotics-21", "date": "Mar 03, 2026" }, { "title": "Case Study: Polymath Robotics and ConGlobal Collaboration", "url": "https://www.polymathrobotics.com/blog/case-study-polymath-and-conglobal", "date": "Feb 12, 2025" }, { "title": "CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/12/ces-2025-self-driving-cars-were-everywhere-plus-other-transportation-tech-trends/", "date": "Jan 12, 2025" }, { "title": "Autonomous vehicles are having a moment and other vibes from CES 2025 | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/autonomous-vehicles-are-having-a-moment-and-other-vibes-from-ces-2025/", "date": "Jan 09, 2025" }, { "title": "Polymath Robotics to share lessons learned as a SaaS-based startup at RoboBusiness - The Robot Report", "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/polymath-robotics-to-share-lessons-learned-at-a-saas-based-startup-at-robobusiness/", "date": "Aug 14, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65002, "title": "📍 Polymath Robotics: plug & play autonomy for industrial vehicles", "tagline": "Polymath lets you easily add autonomy to any industrial vehicle, and build your own applications via Rest API.", "body": "Hey, we’re Stefan & Ilia, founders of Polymath Robotics.\n\n**Polymath makes autonomy software for industrial vehicles.**\n\nToday we’re excited to introduce **Caladan**: a set of simulated vehicles & environments you can use to build autonomous industrial vehicle applications via Rest API.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nBuilding an autonomous industrial vehicle is a multiyear, multimillion-dollar project. Just getting a vehicle to drive itself reliably takes 6 months of engineering effort at a minimum. Even then, the autonomy itself is often buggy and unreliable, and impossible to transfer across different vehicle types.\n\nAs a result, many autonomy companies run out of steam before they even have a reliably-working product … let alone product-market fit.\n\n### **Our solution: general autonomy software**\n\nPolymath software handles generalized basic autonomy — in other words, **driving around and not hitting stuff** — for any industrial vehicle in a controlled environment. That means autonomous industrial vehicle companies can have an autonomous vehicle on day 1.\n\nSince we’re _just_ working on autonomy, we can focus on making the system **stable and reliable.** No more battling with weird controls issues or buggy obstacle detection.\n\n### Caladan: build on Polymath autonomy in simulation\n\nCaladan makes it easy to build autonomous vehicle behaviors in sim. The tool is a set of simulated vehicles & environments you can use to interact with Polymath autonomy via Rest API.\n\nThat means you can program custom autonomous vehicle behaviors and applications using Python, not ROS. And when you’re ready, whatever you’ve built in Caladan can seamlessly transition to a physical vehicle.\n\n### Product demo / example application\n\nHere’s an example application you could build with Caladan (you can download the example code [here](https://github.com/polymathrobotics/caladan_examples)).\n\n\n\nThe free version of Caladan comes with a simulated farm environment or simulated port environment. You can also reach out to us about a custom environment & vehicle in Caladan.\n\n### **Does Polymath autonomy work for my vehicle/use case?**\n\nPolymath autonomy is limited to industrial vehicles in closed environments, since the system will stop immediately if there’s trouble, and fall back on teleoperation in hazardous situations.\n\n**Use case examples:** ⛏ Mining trucks • 🚜 Agricultural vehicles • 🌲 Logging trucks • ✈️ Ground support equipment at airports • 🚢 Yard trucks\n\n### **Can I try it?**\n\nHeck yeah. You can try Caladan for free by signing up [here](http://polymathrobotics.com/product).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GuQ-polymath-robotics-plug-play-autonomy-for-industrial-vehicles", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2022-07-29T15:56:38.207Z" } ] }, { "id": 32781, "name": "Isengard Industries Inc", "slug": "isengard-industries-inc", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/17f019cfd01fa25a85e88f6a43f39d133e5ecaff.png", "website": "http://isengardindustries.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Isengard Industries is not another drone company.\r\n\r\nWe build sovereign production: the means for allied nations to make precision-strike and counter-drone systems by the thousand, on their own soil, at a fraction of what the primes charge.\r\n\r\nWe call it Weapons of Mass Production. The Arsenal of Democracy, rebuilt for the drone age.\r\n\r\nMore to come, and only where it helps. You know how to reach us.", "one_liner": "Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS", "team_size": 30, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Defense", "launched_at": 1782404945, "tags": [ "Swarm Robotics", "Unmanned Vehicle", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "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/isengard-industries-inc", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/isengard-industries-inc.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/isengard-industries/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/17f019cfd01fa25a85e88f6a43f39d133e5ecaff.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 3554287, "full_name": "Francisco Serra-Martins", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Isengard Industries Inc. Previously co-founder/CEO at Terminal Autonomy, scaling to $60M revenue with customers including U.S. Army, NATO, and Ukrainian armed forces. Raised $15M+ from investors. Prior CEO at Sonder Design (listed on Forbes) and Combat engineer in Australian Defence Force. Studied Engineering at University of Sydney.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscoserramartins/", "x_url": "https://x.com/FranciscoSerraM", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d2f29dd1ada67b914d72ae7d29c7908601e110f5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3752974, "full_name": "James Tennant", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a co-founder of Isengard Industries. We build attack drones and counter-drone interceptors that allies manufacture locally at a fraction of prime cost. \n\nBefore Isengard I served as an Australian Army Officer. I have spent a decade in private equity and private credit. I ran Balmoral, a Defense Investment Bank, and have led diligence and structuring on defence-tech deals across Australia, Ukraine and the Gulf. \n\nI'm also completing a PhD on economic warfare and hybrid threats.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesjtennant/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/00c28e38e0f0496272a7eb753df9756a88fb9181.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 114670, "title": "Isengard Industries Inc", "tagline": "AI Weapons of Mass Production", "body": "Hi YC, I’m Francisco, co-founder of Isengard (S26). We build precision-strike and counter-drone systems that allied nations can manufacture on their own soil.\\\n\\\n\n\nWe have $10M in revenue and a $350M pipeline spanning the US Army, Ukraine, and allies globally.\n\nI previously co-founded Terminal Autonomy and scaled it to $60M in revenue in Ukraine. Just weeks ago, its Kyiv factory was hit by a Russian ballistic missiles. [The Guardian ](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/us-firm-drone-factory-terminal-autonomy-ukraine-russia)article.\n\n**With my family in Ukraine, for me, resilient defense manufacturing is personal.** Isengard designs for affordable, distributed production, giving allies the capacity to build and replenish their own arsenals.\n\nWe call it Weapons of Mass Production.\n\n**Our ask:** Introductions to allied defense procurement teams and manufacturing partners. Contact [hello@isengardindustries.com](mailto:hello@isengardindustries.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114670&key=user_uploads/3554287/21bb2b9f-c02c-43b6-a778-84a16a1d7414)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TpW-isengard-industries-inc", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-09-10T19:30:05.764Z" } ] }, { "id": 38094, "name": "Super Powers Mobility (SPM)", "slug": "super-powers-mobility-spm", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a5c35648a3ac00d7da1ce27b5b0a62372c6a5f2e.png", "website": "https://www.spm.fun", "all_locations": "Pittsburgh, PA, USA", "long_description": "We started off building 470V high voltage electric off-road vehicles but we realized our ultra power dense battery packs are useful for mobile and stationary energy storage and power export, for military and consumer use cases. We develop battery packs, power electronics, and traction powertrain systems for vehicles.", "one_liner": "Modular battery packs for mobility/vehicles", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Defense", "launched_at": 1788100804, "tags": [ "Energy Storage", "Unmanned Vehicle", "Electronics" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 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/super-powers-mobility-spm", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2026/super-powers-mobility-spm.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Pittsburgh", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/superpowersmobility", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a5c35648a3ac00d7da1ce27b5b0a62372c6a5f2e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Charlie Warren", "url": null }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1979736, "full_name": "Jonathan Powers", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder/CEO at Super Powers Mobility (YC F26). Previously Senior Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla, leading Cybertruck architecture integration including drive units, structures, exterior surfaces, occupant seating, low and high voltage distribution routing, and safety systems. Earlier lead brake system on electric vehicle development at Workhorse and powersports design at Honda R&D. MS & BS in Mechanical Engineering, MBA from Pitt. Also was a pro off-road racer during college. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathancpowers/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/785f983ba364140a70ee62f55b77dbfb3babfe1c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Pittsburgh startup pitches EV kit to elite troops", "url": "https://defence-blog.com/pittsburgh-startup-pitches-ev-kit-to-elite-troops/", "date": "Jul 18, 2026" } ], "launches": [] } ]