Twenty-first century Silicon Valley founders and investors have not been the fastest to embrace the rise of defence tech, but shifts in geopolitics and US posture has seen that shift massively in the last couple of years. Perseus is a prime example of that – pun intended. The startup is backed by Y Combinator — which only started backing defence tech in 2024 — and it is building attritable 15-inch missiles, a smaller and more agile form factor that in theory should also cost less. The two founders are both technical and worked on frontier projects for the next generation of hardware respectively at NASA and Boeing. IL
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