YCS26· AIIMPACT Drones
Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
Founders
- Jasper LortijeFounder/CEO
- Alessandro FiumeFounder
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About IMPACT Drones
IMPACT builds autonomous interceptor drones that ship in sealed containers. The box sits at the site it protects, data centers, power grids, airports, bases, with no crew on the pad. When sensors cue a hostile drone, an interceptor pierces its own frangible lid, launches, and rams the target, guided by onboard vision that keeps working when GPS is jammed. Legacy effectors cost $1M+ per shot against $30k threats; ours cost less than the threat and scale with the swarm, the same class of interceptor already downing Shahed drones over Ukraine. Sites subscribe to protection instead of buying missiles, hardware, reloads and monitoring included: Air Defense as a Service. 180M+ USD in signed letters of intent.
San Francisco, CA, USA
IMPACT Drones: questions
Which YC batch was IMPACT Drones in?
IMPACT Drones was in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch (S26).
Is IMPACT Drones still active?
Y Combinator lists IMPACT Drones as active.
Who founded IMPACT Drones?
IMPACT Drones's founders, as listed on its YC page: Jasper Lortije (Founder/CEO), Alessandro Fiume (Founder).
Where is IMPACT Drones based?
IMPACT Drones lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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