Seeing Systems
Seeing Systems is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in London, United Kingdom. Team of 2.
About Seeing Systems
Summary
Seeing Systems builds autonomous strike and training drones for military operators in contested combat environments. Its two hardware platforms, Bandit and Banshee, pair a low-cost attritable FPV drone with a modular, fibre-optic-guided autonomous platform that resists jamming. The Aerie AI core manages multi-platform swarm operations, reducing the cognitive demands on operators that current drone systems place on them.
Go-to-market
Customers are military units, currently including UK Royal Marine Commandos and NATO forces, who receive iterative prototypes directly from Seeing Systems as part of a collaborative development process.
From the Y Combinator listing
Modular AI-Commanded Drones for Defence
We engineer inexpensive, autonomous strike drones designed to operate in the most contested combat environments on Earth! By combining true hardware modularity with an agentic control system that lowers cognitive load on operators, we enable faster upgrades, broader adoption, and more than 2x reduction in lifecycle cost. Our customers and partners include the UK Royal Marine Commandos, several other units in the UK, and 4 other NATO forces, and we are currently shipping prototypes for iterative feedback. Think of us as Anduril, but with worse weather, and better banter.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Defense
- London, United Kingdom
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Matthew Le Maitre
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