Vernius Systems, Inc. YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Vernius Systems, Inc. went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2026
Industry: IndustrialsDefense
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Arthur Nguyen-caoFounder/CEO
Hisham El-HalabiFounder/CTO
Joe GonzalezFounder/COO

What Vernius Systems, Inc. does

We make mass-deployable radars for unmanned systems. Our first product is Archimedes, a radar seeker that finds and locks onto targets, enabling autonomous intercept on any drone. We have over $580M in LOIs for Archimedes, across some of the largest defense primes in Ukraine, the EU, and the Middle East. Seekers are the most critical and costly component in every autonomous interceptor. Developing a radar seeker takes a 200+ person team at Raytheon and hundreds of millions of dollars. Archimedes is 100x cheaper than existing radar seekers on the market - and is the first product to make it feasible to deploy radars on every drone.

Vernius Systems, Inc.'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vernius Systems, Inc., Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vernius Systems, Inc.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mass-deployable radars for air defense

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build mass-deployable radars for unmanned systems. Our first product is Archimedes, a radar seeker that finds and locks onto targets so drones can autonomously intercept threats. Archimedes is 100x cheaper than the radar seekers used by defense industry incumbents, which normally take massive teams and budgets to develop. Our approach finally makes it possible to put reliable radar seekers on every drone, not just a select few.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will stay based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is based, and it's the best place for early-stage hard tech startups to access talent and hardware resources. We also need to be close to the early defense and robotics community.

21 more answers in the full application

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Is this the real Vernius Systems, Inc. YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Vernius Systems, Inc.'s public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Vernius Systems, Inc. would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.