9 Mothers

YC company profile

Counter Drone Systems. $1.6m sales. We delivered for the DoW.

We have sold $1.6m of systems to the DoW. Multiple systems delivered to the DoW.

Our first product - EDDA - is a counter drone system - small, low power, low cost fully autonomous-capable. It's designed to be used on vehicles, bases, or carried - to stop group 1 suicide drones. We have multiple contracts, sales, etc.

We have 3 more products with demand in various stages of development.

More details at https://9mothers.com

• YC batch: Spring 2026
• Founded: 2024
• Team size: 19
• Location: Austin, TX
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: Industrials
• Stage: Early
• YC partner: Garry Tan

Founders

Russell Smith — Founder/CEO

Making AI weapon systems.

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Roman Khomenko — Founder

Co-founder of 9 Mothers Defense. Previously Data Scientist at Rainforest QA (YC S12), hacker, and builder of weird things. I love everything old: Lisp, NES games, IRC, trackers, and 8-bit music. Now building AI-driven counter-drone systems.

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Bogdan Pyzh — Founder/COO

Building Counter-Drone Systems.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.