February 18, 2024 Ian Laffey Published On X, that he and two others met, he built a low-cost drone in Hackaton, which calculated his coordinates simply with the help of camera maps and Google. He and his colleagues, Sacha Lvy and Carl Schoeller, were engineers under the age of 25.
The technology had clear potential to fight raging family doctors in Ukraine. Instead of GPS, drone operators must use technologically advanced goggles to direct the drones. But this results in many problems, especially in bad conditions, reminiscent of thick fog or at night.
At the end of Hackaton, Schoeller wished his two teammates well and parted, hoping that their paths could exceed again.
But the tweet has grow to be popular and modified his life. A day later all of the Trój Spring 2024 Kohorta.
Now their company based in San Francisco, TheisusHe just raised $ 4.3 million seed funds in the round run by the first round capital, with additional support Y Combinator and Lux Capital, said only TechCrunch.
Theseus joins the herd of other startups related to drones. There is Skydio, which focuses on replacing Chinese drones for American law enforcement agencies, and has recently been priced at $ 2.2 billion in 2023 AI, which builds reconnaissance drones, recently collected with a valuation of $ 5.3 billion. The largest defense technology player, Anduril, fired own small drone last 12 months and apparently is in conversations about a valuation value $ 28 billion.
Theseus claims that he does not build drones, but focuses on hardware components and software that may allow almost any unmanned military drone without GPS. Schoeller, the general director of Theseus, told Techcrunch that the company does not build management systems. His software does not resolve whether a specific place is a legitimate military goal or not – the only goal is to get a drone from point A to B.
Theseus has not won any American military offers yet and has not been placed on the actual battlefield. So he uses his fresh capital to focus on further technology building, hiring for three engineering roles.
However, the viral tweet Hackathon noticed Theseus by the American special forces that concluded an agreement on early tests and development. Theseus claims that he recently went to the secret base of special forces to check his latest system, sending technology its photo in motion.
In general, the establishment of a company with people, of whom you know under a week “generally not recommended”, but in the case of Theseus justified the jump of religion, Schoeller wrote is LinkedIn.