Vernius Systems, Inc.
Vernius Systems, Inc. is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About Vernius Systems, Inc.
Summary
Vernius Systems, Inc. builds low-cost active radar seekers for counter-UAS interceptors. The seeker is the guidance sensor that locks onto a target after launch; today it costs six figures per unit and takes large defense primes years and hundreds of millions of dollars to develop. Vernius automates that engineering pipeline to produce working seekers in weeks, making autonomous interception economically viable against low-cost threats like Shahed drones.
Go-to-market
Customers are defense operators and interceptor platform makers seeking affordable all-weather, beyond-visual-range guidance. The product supports both fully autonomous fire-and-forget employment and operator-assisted modes, making it adaptable to existing interceptor platforms without a full redesign.
From the Y Combinator listing
Autonomous radar guidance for interceptors
We make radar seekers for interceptors. The seeker — the sensor that finds and locks onto targets — is the most critical and costly component in every interceptor. Developing a radar seeker takes a 200+ person team at Raytheon and hundreds of millions of dollars. We’ve built a pipeline which automates their entire engineering pipeline, and can produce working seekers in weeks, not years.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Defense
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Hisham El-Halabi
- Joe Gonzalez
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