IMPACT Drones
IMPACT Drones is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About IMPACT Drones
Summary
IMPACT Drones builds autonomous interceptor drones that protect fixed civilian infrastructure, including data centers, power grids, refineries, and airports, from hostile drone threats. The system ships as a sealed container pre-loaded with interceptors: when sensors detect a threat, an interceptor launches and neutralizes it without a crew on site. It replaces legacy kinetic effectors that cost over a million dollars per shot with a lower-cost interceptor sized to match the threat.
Business model
Sites subscribe to protection as a service, with hardware, reloads, and monitoring included in the subscription.
Go-to-market
Customers are operators of critical fixed infrastructure such as cloud campuses, refineries, substations, and airfields; they are reached through a direct sales motion targeting security and facilities decision-makers at those sites.
From the Y Combinator listing
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 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.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Defense
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Alessandro Fiume
- Jasper Lortije
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