The primary protection startup to obtain backing from Y Combinator, Ares Industries, launched earlier this week.
In a submit on the YC web site, the startup outlined a imaginative and prescient to construct low-cost cruise missiles that might be suitable with current launch platforms, saying it can “ship the capabilities that the [Department of Defense] needs in a kind issue that’s 10x smaller and 10x cheaper.”
Ares Industries’s founders say they’ve examined prototypes within the Mojave Desert and plan to ship working missile programs to their first clients in mid-2025.
YC accomplice Jared Friedman informed the FT that the incubator began encouraging protection tech startups to use earlier this yr.
YC’s CEO Garry Tan was an early worker at knowledge analytics firm Palantir, which has turn into massively profitable by its typically controversial work for U.S. army, in addition to different governments and businesses. CEO Alex Karp defended the corporate’s “constantly pro-Western view” in a latest New York Occasions interview.
