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9 Mothers

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
Active Founders
Russell Smith
Russell Smith
Founder / CEO
Making AI weapon systems.
Roman Khomenko
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.
Bogdan Pyzh
Bogdan Pyzh
Co-Founder, COO
Building Counter-Drone Systems.
Company Launches
9 Mothers - AI mission systems
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We make AI mission systems for the DoW.

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Our first product - EDDA - is a tiny robot that protects soldiers and critical assets from Group 1 suicide drones. We are building it small enough and cheap enough to put that protection on everything: every vehicle, every position, every asset. EDDA defeats fast group 1 threats that fielded systems consistently miss. Operators evaluating it have told us it's the only system that's stopped fast Group 1 - we'll let them speak for themselves when they can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGBUmwgpL0

Why this? We were watching people die in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and ended up researching the state of the union on defeating suicide drones. It was insanely bad - over-focus on RF, EW, and larger systems - all with obvious flaws. Nothing was working, all demos were of slow speed or static drones. RF & EW are somewhere between dead-ends and table-stakes, and the larger systems had many flaws. So, we felt compelled to fix it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEgJkZTNcks

The U.S. and allies are up-against this threat with no viable solution, until now. We have multiple contracts, and have sold and delivered multiple systems.

Our next 3 products follow the same vein - delivering working systems at low SWaPc.

Jobs at 9 Mothers
Austin
$150K - $250K
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Austin
$150K - $250K
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Austin
$150K - $250K
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Austin
$250K - $400K
0.10% - 0.50%
6+ years
Austin
$250K - $400K
0.10% - 0.50%
6+ years
9 Mothers
Founded:2024
Batch:Spring 2026
Team Size:19
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Garry Tan