Perseus Defense YC 지원서

Summer 2025Active

Perseus Defense은(는) Summer 2025 배치에서 Industrials 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Summer 2025
산업: IndustrialsDefense
팀 규모: 3
상태: Active
출시됨: 2025

창업자

Jason CorneliusCo-founder & CEO
Steve MessingerFounder

Perseus Defense의 사업 내용

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.

Perseus Defense의 YC 지원서, 재구성됨

Y Combinator 지원

Perseus Defense, Summer 2025 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

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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Perseus Defense의 실제 YC 지원서인가요?

아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 Perseus Defense의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. Perseus Defense과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.