Application YC di Perseus Defense
Perseus Defense ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Summer 2025 come azienda Industrials. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.
- Batch YC
- Summer 2025
- Settore
- IndustrialsDefense
- Dimensione team
- 3
- Stato
- Active
- Lanciata
- 2025
Founder
Jason CorneliusCo-founder & CEO
Steve MessingerFounder
Cosa fa 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.
Application YC di Perseus Defense, ricostruita
Domanda per Y Combinator
Perseus Defense, batch Summer 2025. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Perseus Defense
America's Golden Dome for Drones
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.
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.
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.
21 risposte in più nell'application completa
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Domande Frequenti
Questa è l'application YC reale di Perseus Defense?
No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Perseus Defense (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Perseus Defense si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.
A quale batch YC apparteneva Perseus Defense?
Perseus Defense apparteneva al batch Summer 2025 di Y Combinator.
Chi ha fondato Perseus Defense?
Perseus Defense è stato fondato da Jason Cornelius, Steve Messinger.
Cosa fa Perseus Defense?
America's Golden Dome for Drones
Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?
Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Perseus Defense, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.
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