Polemos Industries
Polemos Industries is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA.
About Polemos Industries
Summary
Polemos Industries builds low-cost guided interceptors and compact launch systems for ground forces, targeting the cost imbalance where incoming threats are cheap but the weapons used to defeat them are expensive. The product lets military units afford protection in the field rather than reserving air defense for high-value fixed sites. Existing trench-level defense relies on systems priced out of reach for dispersed infantry; Polemos designs around minimizing cost per kill.
Go-to-market
Primary buyers are public-sector and defense partners; the company is actively seeking government, research, industry, and supplier relationships as it moves through physical development.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI-guided ballistic missiles, cheap enough to field in numbers that…
Precision strike is rationed. Forces see more targets than they can afford to hit. Polemos builds AI-guided ballistic missiles and the compact launchers that fire them, designed for mass manufacturing. Our launchers form a strike network wired into the recon drones already in the sky: a drone geolocates a target, the nearest launcher fires, and a guided round lands in seconds. Short range, no wasted kilometers, no modified trucks. Built on production lines that already exist, so output scales when it matters most.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Defense
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Active
- Early
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