# 9 Mothers

[9 Mothers on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/9-mothers-corporation)

Startup · 4 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://9mothers.com/)
- [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/9-mothers)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/9-mothers-corporation)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/9-mothers/)
- [X](https://x.com/9mothers)

## About

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## 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.

[LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/russellhowardsmith) · [X](https://twitter.com/rhs)

### 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dowakin/)

### Bogdan Pyzh — Founder/COO

Building Counter-Drone Systems.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-pyzh-b5b77388)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/9-mothers-corporation) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Bogdan Pyzh](https://hacklab.so/bogdan-pyzh) — Founder/COO (Present)
- [Madison Stanfield](https://hacklab.so/madison-stanfield) — Hiring manager (Present)
- [Roman Khomenko](https://hacklab.so/roman-khomenko) — Founder (Present)
- [Russell Smith](https://hacklab.so/russell-smith) — Founder/CEO (Present)

## Open jobs

- [Machine Learning Engineer, Senior](https://hacklab.so/jobs/e4a81d36-834f-5dd3-9fdb-7f39e8f675c1) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $150K \- $250K · 0\.02% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Senior Mechatronics Engineer](https://hacklab.so/jobs/e434bede-79c5-5c50-8217-87af87f049f2) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $150K \- $250K · 0\.01% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Computer Vision Engineer, Senior](https://hacklab.so/jobs/c90b45f9-1c96-5cb1-80c9-22b30cadbc81) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $150K \- $250K · 0\.01% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Perception Engineer, Staff](https://hacklab.so/jobs/a7ff8a6c-0beb-5d62-b3dc-fbbbfa2de07c) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $250K \- $300K · 0\.02% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Robotics Engineer, Senior](https://hacklab.so/jobs/9e75295b-916c-5a3b-a765-06eb2a890cf3) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $150K \- $250K · 0\.02% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Lead Mechatronics Engineer](https://hacklab.so/jobs/91ace430-498b-5031-b720-8ae6a91f6d7d) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $250K \- $400K · 0\.01% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Embedded Engineer \(BSP\), Staff](https://hacklab.so/jobs/80cb9452-3fe1-5e1b-aa62-3d991a8f0a92) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $250K \- $300K · 0\.02% \- 0\.05% equity
- [Robotics Engineer, Staff](https://hacklab.so/jobs/20e97505-d874-5cc5-b14f-c84c7d1aad45) — Full\-time · On\-site · Austin · $250K \- $400K · 0\.01% \- 0\.05% equity