HireTop · Jun 2025
Profiled Notus's PALLAS concept, mixed drone-and-ground-robot swarms, and the company's battle-tested positioning from Ukraine-informed feedback.
Swarm robotics and full AI-command hierarchy integration
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
YC Spring 2025 defense robotics startup building PALLAS, a command-and-control system for coordinated drone and ground-robot swarms that can operate in contested, RF-jammed environments.
Primary product
PALLAS command-and-control software for autonomous drone and ground-robot swarms
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States (LinkedIn); YC also lists Los Angeles, CA
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Swarm robotics / drone command-and-control
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Business model
B2B defense technology
hardware + software
government/defense sales
Funding
People & investors
Work & culture
Public materials suggest a small, mission-driven, engineering-heavy team that iterates from combat feedback and emphasizes speed, autonomy, and real-world battlefield constraints.
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Designed for arbitrary-size drone swarms
- —Built to work in RF-jammed and GPS-spoofed environments
- —Centralized command for mixed fleets of drones and ground robots
- —Single-operator mission-level control instead of one-pilot-per-vehicle
- —Claims to incorporate combat feedback from Ukraine
Technology
swarm robotics
PALLAS command-and-control software
phased arrays at 60 GHz
EHF radios
novel radar algorithm
autonomous drones
ground robots
RF-interference resistance
contested-environment operations
mixed-fleet coordination
Customers
militaries
military commanders
defense operators
Competitors
Anduril (Lattice)
Shield AI (Hivemind)
Palantir (Defense / Mission Command)
Skydio
Auterion (Nemyx)
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$220K ARR (GetLatka estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
483
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Startup Intros · Jun 2025
Reported a $500K funding announcement for Notus Autonomous Systems and listed the investor set associated with the round.
Y Combinator
Official YC company profile describing the product and listing Emmanuel Margolin as CEO/cofounder, with founded year 2025 and Spring 2025 batch membership.
FYI Combinator
Competitive analysis naming Anduril, Shield AI, Palantir, Skydio, and Auterion as comparable companies in the defense autonomy stack.
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