Arlo Industries
Arlo Industries is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About Arlo Industries
Summary
Arlo Industries builds a decentralized mesh of passive sensors that track drones and missiles in three dimensions without emitting radio frequency signals. The system targets militaries and defense operators who need wide-area aerial surveillance but cannot rely on traditional radar, which broadcasts its position, covers limited ground, and costs far more to scale. Each additional node adds linearly to cost while compounding tracking accuracy, replacing centralized, radar-dependent air defense architectures.
Go-to-market
Defense forces, border security operators, and military customers across Ukraine, Europe, and the United States are the primary buyers, reached through direct field demonstrations including live frontline showcases with Ukrainian military units.
From the Y Combinator listing
Track drones and missiles without radars - Accurate, Passive, Scalable
Arlo Industries is building a network of sensors that precisely tracks stealthy drones and aerial threats better than radars. This capability does not exist yet because traditional radars are built on past war doctrines designed to protect single, centralised assets. Modern warfare, however, demands wide-area, persistent coverage that is both passive and economically scalable. By utilising a mesh architecture, Arlo Industries unlocks unprecedented asymmetric economics. The network is fundamentally built to scale: the cost of adding sensors grows linearly, but the tracking accuracy increases exponentially, delivering highly resilient, persistent coverage for a fraction of the cost of legacy systems. Deo founded Arlo Industries after spending over 6 years in the Israeli defence ecosystem, where he lived through multiple conflicts and experienced the Iron Dome and other systems in action against ICBMs and the infamous Shahed drones. Learning exactly how these defence systems could be improved after a Shahed exploded close to his apartment, he built Arlo Industries around the core philosophy that conflict should be concise & precise. The people behind Arlo1 includes a PhD in drones and autonomy and military experts. Arlo Industries has actively showcased this technology directly to Ukrainian militaries on the frontlines, as well as to operators across Europe and the USA.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Defense
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
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