Founder @askaridefense. Electron enthusiast. Building next-gen American robot defenses 🇺🇸🚀 Prev 🇿🇦
Atlanta, GA
Joined January 2023
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Huge respect to Gwynne!
Robert and I are thrilled that our gift of over 2 million shares of SpaceX stock will be distributed to children’s Trump accounts in December!
Our initial gift (shares transferring to escrow as we speak) will go to 11 to 17-year-olds who live in zip codes with median family income (MFI) of $57,000 or less, and to those who live in zip codes with too few residents for an MFI to be reported in the census. These families should receive a notice by Monday.
In a few weeks, an additional gift will be finalized for eligible 11 to 17-year-old children in military families serving overseas, children in foster care, and more children whose MFI is $90,000 or less living in counties near our home in the great state of Texas.
Thank you to the incredible team @SpaceX, @Treasury, @IRS, @DellFdn, @GreaterHorizons, @InvestAmerica24, and the legal firms of Morgan Lewis and Gibson Dunn for working over the past few months to make this happen.
We are deeply grateful for the groundbreaking work that Brad Gerstner @altcap and @MichaelDell have done for the long-term financial security for millions of kids.
God Bless America!
.@SecRubio I hear you are in ATL for the G20 meeting. Come visit the Askari HQ and see how 20 year olds are building technologies to defend our nation from rogue drones. 🇺🇸🚀
.@BlackwingVC has the best merch. Thanks for keeping the team dialed in @ChadCazel @Pete_DiSalvo_BW 🫡
The @AskariDefense team is growing quickly 🚀 Proud to work alongside such talented people!
My international award-winning INTEL Science Fair project from almost 10 years ago is more advanced than 99% of modern drone startups.
It showed that a drone motor’s phase resistance is one of the greatest indicators of the brushless motor’s performance. Screenshot from the project where I used local weighted regression, Neural Networks, and Boosted Decision Trees to optimize racing drone propulsion. After tons of experimental data to train on, it WORKED and out performed even the best FPV pilots in selecting the fastest racing drone propulsion.
Over the next few weeks I will be revisiting memory lane and sharing more about the project. I feel it’s particularly insightful given the massive drone popularity.
Btw I emailed @atlasmotion inquiring why their 2207 motors were so high in resistance. Got zero reply. Whats up? @CMochen
Nice little birthday surprise. One off drone interception is important but AI autonomy tooling is key to maintaining long-term asymmetry.
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"What are they feeding these kids?" @tectonicdefense We run on pure love for the country, a sense of responsibility to defend the homeland, and a lot of coffee.
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First public look at the inner workings of @AskariDefense
we met up with the @askaridefense team this week. In just a year and a half, the team has grown to seven engineers right in @techsqATL and secured more than $2 million in Department of Defense contracts, all while staying rooted right here in Atlanta. #BuiltInTheA
Big fans of @joel_chakra and the mission (+ aura) of the WaterStone Impact fund.
Being a defender of the defenseless is a core thesis for the WaterStone Impact Fund.
@rob_zedd and @AskariDefense are of the few that are actually building a defense tech company with humans (not robots) at the center of the command center.
So grateful to be a part of this with an incredible group of people!
Our team is solving the toughest nat sec problem. If you hold yourself to insanely high standards, seek challenging opportunities, and want to work alongside the best, come join us: lnkd.in/eWQQj79W
Today, we’re excited to share that @AskariDefense has raised a $9M seed round led by @BuildersVC to accelerate our work building hand-launched, autonomous interceptors for the operators closest to the fight.
Our focus is simple: give dismounted teams a lightweight, kinetic, fire-and-forget capability against hostile drones without waiting on a vehicle, a fixed site, or a perfect RF environment.
We’ve already secured major contracts, delivered systems to demanding government customers, and proven that small teams can move fast in one of the most urgent defense categories in the world.
The future of counter-UAS is not just bigger systems. It’s smaller, faster, more autonomous, and carried by the people who need it most.
We’re grateful to @BuildersVC for leading the round, with participation from @SovereignsCap, @swellvc, Rule 1 Ventures, WaterStone Impact Fund, and a syndicate of defense leaders including @dominocielo, @DanMagy, @naweed, James Kubik, and others.
We’re also grateful to the early believers who followed on and doubled down on Askari’s mission: @BlackwingVC, @KnollVentures, @OverlineVC, Georgia Tech Foundation, and Teamworthy Ventures.
Back to work.
#AskariDefense #CounterUAS #SeedRound
Pretty sure I have the coolest job ever: get to build cool technology, save lives, serve our nation, work alongside mission critical/passionate team members, building an already almost infinite money glitch (sales from our products), all with limited supervision and the ability to tackle seemingly crazy challenges.
