Seeing Systems builds inexpensive, modular, autonomous strike drones engineered for contested combat environments where GPS, communications, and operator attention are all under pressure. By combining true hardware modularity with an agentic control stack, the company aims to deliver platforms that operators with minimal training can deploy for strike, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, or swarm missions, with more than a 2x reduction in lifecycle cost compared to legacy military drones.
The company was founded in 2025 by brothers Matthew and Alexander Le Maitre. Matthew was a top-ranked Cambridge computer science graduate and a software engineer at Jane Street, while Alexander is a self-taught hardware specialist who previously designed explosive ordnance disposal training and diagnostic hardware for military users. Based in London, the two-person founding team is part of Y Combinator W26 batch and is actively hiring software and hardware engineers.
Seeing Systems already ships prototypes to operational users including the UK Royal Marine Commandos, several other UK units, and four additional NATO forces, with units currently deployed in Ukraine for iterative combat feedback. The modular architecture allows payloads, sensors, and communications modules to be swapped quickly, so squadrons can reconfigure aircraft for new missions in the field and upgrade individual subsystems without replacing entire airframes. The agentic autonomy layer reduces operator cognitive load and enables faster doctrine adoption across allied militaries.