Theseus

GPS Denied Navigation for Drones

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveIndustrialsDronesRoboticsDrones

What they do

Problem

Drones cannot reliably navigate when GPS is unavailable or jammed.

Solution

Theseus provides passive visual-inertial navigation software that fuses onboard cameras and inertial sensors with satellite reference imagery to compute position fixes without GPS or RF emissions.

Who it's for

Drone operators and organizations running missions in GPS-denied environments (e.g., defense, security, and industrial teams).

Founders

Ian Laffey

Founder

GPS-denied nav for drones

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Sacha Lévy

Founder

Sacha Lévy is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Theseus Technology Corporation, where he develops visual navigation systems that enable drones to operate autonomously without GPS. Before founding Theseus, he was a PhD student in Computer Science at Yale University, where his research applied large language models to biological data and was published in top machine learning conferences. He holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from McGill University.

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