Founders

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Founder at Primordiant (formerly SuperRadiant). PhD in Physics from Brown, where he invented novel algorithms to discover phase transitions in random-field Ising models, in addition to using micro and nanofluidics to study analogous system experimentally. Research experience at NASA JPL and CERN/LHC. Trained in nanofabrication, microfluidics, and ML methods including PINNs and reinforcement learning.

Boston Dynamics

Founder at Primordiant. PhD in Computer Science from Brown University, where I invented novel methods for building generally capable, verifiable robots and spatial world models. Previously developed AI systems that combined learning, reasoning, and planning for reliable long-horizon autonomy at the Boston Dynamics Robotics & AI Institute.

President, described in both company releases as a former Navy SEAL. No source read gives his start date or prior employers.

Founded Firefly with Dorosz and decided with him in 2024 to shift to defense drones (New York Times). No source read gives him a title at Swarm Defense.

Chief pilot officer, per a U.S. Army National Guard photo caption showing him operating Swarm Threat Emulator drones at Camp Grayling, Michigan, on 7 August 2026.

CEO and founder (company release), the only executive officer and director named on the Form D. Founded Firefly with Ryan Sigmon in 2017 (New York Times).

Nuclear Core Design Lead per the company team page, which says he has led nuclear design at light-water reactor companies. No outside source opened confirms this.

Founder and CEO, director on both Form Ds. AfroTech reports launch teams for Uber's freight strategy, Elroy Air and Arc, and venture partner at Rackhouse Venture Capital.

Director on the 4 September 2026 Form D. The company's press release identifies him as Managing Partner of Slauson & Co., which led the first round.

CEO and co-founder. Says he was a commissioned military officer, worked in shipyards and built a venture-backed startup in offshore oil and gas safety.

Chief Operations Officer. Says in the company's leadership post that he co-founded Deployable Energy. The post names no prior employers.

Chief Commercialization Officer, called a co-founder by POWER. Says he worked more than 20 years across the U.S. government on nuclear energy, including on NRIC's leadership team.

CFO. Says he spent the first 15 years of his career investing in entrepreneurs bringing oilfield technologies to market, and that this is his second company with Gallagher.

PhD in Physics from Brown University. Created ALBERT, an autonomous AI particle physicist that proposes, verifies, and iteratively refines physics theories; given pre-1990 data, it recovered the top quark's mass and properties in under an hour. Previously researched neutrinos at Fermilab on the NOvA experiment. Featured in APS Physics Magazine: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/119

Founder and CEO per Y Combinator. Ex Shield AI autonomy engineer per his YC bio. Says he built autonomy for Group 3 and Group 5 aircraft there.

Founder and CTO per Y Combinator. His YC bio says he was an autonomy engineer at Anduril and Shield AI, working on missile defense systems and robot teaming.

Chief Growth Officer per the FCC filings, where he is the applicant contact. The filings give no prior background and he is not on the YC page.

Former co-founder (X bio reads "prev cofounder @robocurve"). YC partner Ankit Gupta's article lists Harvard's Computational Robotics Lab, Amazon Robotics, Amazon's AGI Lab and Yondu Robotics.

Member of Technical Staff per the NBC News video description of 23 September 2026. No source opened states prior background.

Radar contact in the August 2026 FCC exhibits. An April 2019 SRI International press release calls him principal research engineer, Signals and Space Technology Laboratory.

Chief Engineer and co-investigator for HALE InSAR per NASA's August 2025 article. No source opened states his prior employer.

CEO and principal investigator for HALE InSAR per NASA. NASA says she was principal investigator of the CIRES CubeSat radar and led its development at SRI International.

Founder and CEO per NRC filings. Company website says he founded ADDiTEC (metal 3D printing) in 2015, remains its CEO, and holds a master's in nuclear reactor physics.

CFO since September 2025, per the company website, which says he previously spent more than two decades at United Technologies, including as global CFO of its Carrier division.

Chief Operating Officer. Company website says he founded Nuclear Safety Associates, which Atkins acquired in 2014, and holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Company website says she joined in September 2025 from Carrier Global Corp., where she was Vice President and Associate General Counsel.

President and founder. The company site says he has more than four decades in nuclear energy, including leadership roles supporting U.S. Department of Energy initiatives.

CEO (Treasurer on the 2025 Form Ds). The company site cites executive roles at global enterprises and venture-backed companies in energy and technology, naming no prior employer.

COO (September 2026 Form D) or Chief Commercial Officer (team page). Per the site, an attorney with structured finance, mergers and acquisitions and energy project development background.

Chief Financial Officer, announced 15 April 2026. The company release says he held senior finance leadership roles at NuScale Power and bp.

Founder and CEO. Per the company site, Chief Nuclear Officer of TEPCO from 2014 to 2017 and led the COCN offshore nuclear project from 2020 to 2022.

Outside director and lead investor per the company site, which calls him a former deep-tech founder and CEO and co-general partner at an unnamed venture capital firm.

Head of Corporate Development. The company site describes him as an energy-infrastructure executive and serial cleantech founder, with no employers named.

Regulatory and maritime nuclear engineering. The company site describes him as a former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine operator with ASME pressure-vessel design and licensing support experience.

Stanford

Brandon is the co-founder of Hebbian Robotics, which builds APIs that help robotics data teams verify data quality for model training. He previously built Gigit AI, a Sequoia-backed AI customer experience startup. His research on AI for low-resource languages topped SEA-HELM, an LLM benchmark co-developed with Percy Liang's research group at Stanford. He briefly pursued a PhD in Robotics at Columbia and NTU before starting Hebbian.

Co-founder and CEO per the company site and press release. A podcast episode description calls him a physicist by training.

Co-founder and COO per the company's about page. No source read states his prior work.

Co-founder and CTO. A company post says he first developed the COSMIC construction cost software at MIT.

Board member. A company post describes him as a general partner at Playground Global and former CEO of Intel and VMware.

Chief Operating Officer per the company site. The 2025 site described him as ex-USMMI and a naval architect.

Engineering Manager per the company site. The 2025 site described him as ex-General Dynamics Electric Boat and a naval architect.

CEO and founder per the company site, President and director per the Form D. BetaKit (April 2018) reported that Akira founder Walper launched Newton, a cryptocurrency trading platform.

Director per the Form D. No source opened describes his background or affiliation.

Quality Manager, named as company contact on the FDA 510(k) clearance letter for K260183.

CEO, per the Form D. University of Michigan pages describe him as founder, professor of mechanical engineering, FlexDex co-founder and National Academy of Engineering member (2023).

Director, per the Form D. No source read gives his background.

Chief Executive Officer and director. Per the press release, 27 years as a U.S. Army Green Beret, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center and Acting Secretary of Defense.

Chief Technology Officer and former DARPA program manager per the press release. Tectonic calls him a co-founder. Not listed as a related person on the Form D.

Chief Operating Officer and director, signed the Form D as President. The press release cites U.S. Navy and Defense Innovation Unit experience. Tectonic calls him a co-founder.

Chief Revenue Officer and fourth founder per the press release, a retired lieutenant colonel and career Army Special Forces officer. Executive officer on the Form D.

Co-founder and CEO per the Veridis site, which describes his role as company vision and government partnerships. No source opened gives prior work history.

Co-founder and CTO per the Veridis site, which says he designs every product and builds the aircraft prototypes and software stack solo.

Advisor per the Veridis site, which describes him as former CEO of KAO Data with 20+ years as a global executive.

Listed as co-founder and CTO on the earlier AdAstra Defense site, which is still live. He does not appear on the Veridis site, which names two founders.

CEO and director per the Form D. His site lists engineering roles at Submarine Rescue Service, Oil States, Aker Solutions and NIS, and founding Exnics (flow measurement).

Listed as a director on the Form D filed 18 August 2026. The filing gives no affiliation and no other source ties her to the company.

CEO and founder per company site and press. Site lists him as a candidate at SNU College of Medicine. His page says MEDISC lab researcher since December 2021.

Co-founder per press, which describes him as from the SNU Department of Mechanical Engineering. Not listed as an author on any of the six September 2026 preprints.

Co-founder per press, which describes him as from the SNU Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Preprint author listing Rosota Inc. First-listed author of the appendectomy preprint. No source states whether he is co-founder Lee Dong-ho.

Co-founder and CEO per the September 2026 release. Business Insider says he studied computer science at UC Berkeley and worked one year as a software engineer at Amazon.

Co-founder and CTO per the November 2025 company release. Business Insider says he studied mechanical engineering at Cal Poly and worked at Lockheed Martin.

Named a co-founder by Business Insider and co-CEO by Arena Magazine in 2025. The September 2026 release does not name him. No source states his current role.

Listed as Chief Test Pilot on the FCC application, which he signed on 23 September 2026. No source gives prior background.

Founder and CEO. General Catalyst describes him as a Stanford-trained engineer who led engineering for counter-UAS at Anduril and was Head of Product at Archer.

Director on the Form D. General partner at Andreessen Horowitz, which led the Series A.

Advisor (not an employee). Per the company release, a retired Army general and former Commanding General of U.S. Army Futures Command.

Advisor (not an employee). Per the company release, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and former President and CEO of Textron Systems.

CEO and co-founder since August 2022, holding 4.2% per the Form C. The campaign page cites 20 years of experience and calls Aerovec her second startup.

Chairman and co-founder. The campaign page says he has 25 years in the wind energy industry and retired in 2020 as a Corporate Vice President of Moog Inc.

Director, primary contact for technology and product development. Per the campaign page, a mechanical engineer and owner for over 30 years of An-Cor Technologies, an industrial fiberglass plant.

Board member holding 17.20% per the Form C. The campaign page calls him an investor who served as President of First Choice Medical, Legal Med and Medlab.