IMPACT Drones

YC company profile

Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.

IMPACT builds autonomous interceptor drones that ship in sealed containers. The box sits at the site it protects, data centers, power grids, airports, bases, with no crew on the pad. When sensors cue a hostile drone, an interceptor pierces its own frangible lid, launches, and rams the target, guided by onboard vision that keeps working when GPS is jammed. Legacy effectors cost $1M+ per shot against $30k threats; ours cost less than the threat and scale with the swarm, the same class of interceptor already downing Shahed drones over Ukraine. Sites subscribe to protection instead of buying missiles, hardware, reloads and monitoring included: Air Defense as a Service. 180M+ USD in signed letters of intent.

• YC batch: Summer 2026
• Founded: 2026
• Team size: 2
• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: Industrials
• Stage: Early
• Tags: Hardware, Drones, Swarm Robotics, AI
• YC partner: Tyler Bosmeny

Founders

Jasper Lortije — Founder/CEO

Co-founder & CEO, Impact Drones. Aerospace engineer (MSc, TU Delft), over a decade building drones. Built the VTOL drone that won the Hannover Messe VTOL competition. Worked alongside special forces on the counter-drone security plan for the 2025 NATO Summit, protecting heads of state including President Trump.

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Alessandro Fiume — Founder

Co-founder at Impact Drones. Columbia MSc. Built the pipeline behind 180M+ USD in signed LOIs. At Bloomberg, drove 80% week-over-week growth in terminal activations closing 2M USD in contracts. Scholarship fellow to Columbia & ESCP, valedictorian of CIV, France.

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