TL;DR: IMPACT Drones is a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure., currently active with a team of 2.
Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
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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.
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Yes. IMPACT Drones was funded by Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch. Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
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…
IMPACT Drones was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.
IMPACT Drones has a team of 2 people according to Y Combinator's directory.
IMPACT Drones is currently listed as Active with a team of 2 in Y Combinator's directory.
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