IMPACT Drones launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.

Founders

• Jasper Lortije · Founder/CEO
• Alessandro Fiume · Founder

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IMPACT Drones on the record

What they shipped

• From its YC profile: IMPACT builds autonomous interceptor drones that ship in sealed containers. The box sits at the site it protects, data centers, power grids, airports, bases, with no crew on the pad. When sensors cue a hostile drone, an interceptor pierces its own frangible lid, launches, and rams the target, guided by onboard vision that keeps working when GPS is jammed. Legacy effectors cost $1M+ per shot against $30k threats; ours cost less than the threat and scale with the swarm, the same class of interceptor already downing Shahed drones over Ukraine. (source)
• Its own site describes it as: "Autonomous counter-UAS protection for civilian infrastructure." (source)

Who is behind it

• Jasper Lortije, Founder/CEO: Co-founder & CEO, Impact Drones. Aerospace engineer (MSc, TU Delft), over a decade building drones. Built the VTOL drone that won the Hannover Messe VTOL competition. Worked alongside special forces on the counter-drone security plan for the 2025 NATO Summit, protecting heads of state including President Trump. (source)
• Alessandro Fiume, Founder: Co-founder at Impact Drones. Columbia MSc. Built the pipeline behind 180M+ USD in signed LOIs. At Bloomberg, drove 80% week-over-week growth in terminal activations closing 2M USD in contracts. Scholarship fellow to Columbia & ESCP, valedictorian of CIV, France. (source)

Timeline

1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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