Candidature YC de Perseus Defense

Summer 2025Active

Perseus Defense a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2025 en tant qu'entreprise Industrials. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2025
Secteur d'activité: IndustrialsDefense
Taille de l'équipe: 3
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2025

Fondateurs

Jason CorneliusCo-founder & CEO
Steve MessingerFounder

Ce que fait Perseus Defense

Perseus Defense is building a mass-manufactured Counter UAS solution for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. Current solutions are one-to-one, too dangerous for use on U.S. soil, and orders of magntiude more expensive than the threats they defeat. Our self-guided missile platform is man-portable and multi-domain capable. It senses, engages, and eliminates threats with drastically reduced cost per engagement over existing kinetic solutions. Solving this critical national security problem requires understanding complex DoD needs along with actual rocket science including aerodynamics, guidance, navigation, control, and much more. Jason and Steve met at Penn State while they pursued their PhD and MS in aerospace engineering, respectively. Their past experiences designing space helicopters for NASA, making Boeing airliners land autonomously, controlling swarms of unmanned autonomous systems, teaching aerospace engineering at Stanford, winning multiple ONR and DOE engineering competitions, and founding an international drone competition makes them the perfect team to create transformative solutions protecting our service members. "If you build this, it will be mandatory equipment for every truck, boat, and convoy in the U.S. Military. We're talking thousands of units." - Former DoD Procurement Officer The White House just released Executive Order, "Unleashing American Drone Dominance" which adds billions of dollars, government support, and streamlined regulations to enable the development of our product. Traction: Jason and Steve used more than 100 end-user interviews across the DoD and DHS to shape the product to something of critical need to both boots on the ground and DoD purchasers. In 8 short weeks following a strict 2-week design-build-test cycle, the team has gone through 4 major guided missile iterations with over 30 live-fire flight tests. They were invited to Ft. Hood to present their platform to the 1st Cavalry Division, and also briefed the Pentagon and U.S. congressmen on current U.S. vulnerabilities to advanced drone technology. Perseus Defense is actively standing up cooperative research agreements with U.S. Army DEVCOM's Applied Research Laboratory, Aviation and Missile Center, Armaments Center, and High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

Candidature YC de Perseus Defense, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Perseus Defense, promotion Summer 2025. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Perseus Defense

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

America's Golden Dome for Drones

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

We're building a self-guided missile platform that detects, tracks, and destroys hostile drones. It's man-portable, works across domains, and costs far less per engagement than current systems. Our product addresses a critical gap for the Department of Defense and Homeland Security where existing counter-drone solutions are either one-to-one, prohibitively expensive, or unsafe for use on U.S. soil.

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

We met while at Penn State but location is not specified. Post-YC, we'll base the company wherever it makes sense for working closely with DoD and DHS partners.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our priority is proximity to defense customers and research partners, so we'll be where we can best engage with the Army's development labs and government stakeholders.

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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Perseus Defense ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Perseus Defense (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Perseus Defense se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Perseus Defense appartenait-il ?

Perseus Defense faisait partie du batch Summer 2025 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Perseus Defense ?

Perseus Defense a été fondé par Jason Cornelius, Steve Messinger.

Que fait Perseus Defense ?

America's Golden Dome for Drones

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

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