# Dmitry Turbiner

> Dmitry Turbiner is the founder and CEO of General Radar Corp., a Silicon Valley deep-tech company building what it calls the world's first 100% commercial AESA phased-array radar with defense-grade performance. An MIT-trained electrical engineer who designed flight-grade satellite antennas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Turbiner left a Stanford master's program to start the company in 2016. General Radar has raised more than $47 million across seed and Series A rounds from backers including Kleiner Perkins and Octave Ventures, and pioneered a 'Radar-as-a-Service' model that aims to deliver high-resolution, long-range threat detection in a fraction of the usual time and cost.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at General Radar Corp.
- **Organizations:** General Radar Corp., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (former)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS, Electrical Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MS, Electrical Engineering (incomplete - left to found General Radar), Stanford University
- **Known for:** Founded General Radar Corp. and raised more than $47 million in total funding, Designed and delivered 30 flight-grade phased array antennas at NASA/JPL for the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 LEO satellite constellation, Led a team of 11 engineers at JPL as Cognizant Engineer for a radio occultation antenna array

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Joined NASA/JPL as RF and Antenna Engineer, Cognizant Engineer for the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 Radio Occultation Antenna Array
- **2013** — Completed JPL tenure after leading a team of 11 engineers and delivering 30 flight-grade phased array antennas for the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 satellite constellation
- **2016** — Founded General Radar Corp.; secured a $3.4M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins
- **2022** — Raised $22M Series A led by Octave Ventures with Disruptive Technology Advisors
- **2024** — Launched Radar-as-a-Service (RaaS); published op-ed in C4ISRNET on modernizing homeland-security radar

## Achievements

- Founded General Radar Corp. and raised more than $47 million in total funding
- Designed and delivered 30 flight-grade phased array antennas at NASA/JPL for the COSMIC-2/FORMOSAT-7 LEO satellite constellation
- Led a team of 11 engineers at JPL as Cognizant Engineer for a radio occultation antenna array
- Pioneered a commercial 'Radar-as-a-Service' delivery model for AESA radar
- Secured multiple Department of Defense and commercial contracts for General Radar

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — Published an op-ed in C4ISRNET arguing the US must replace outdated airport-style radar to counter drones, hypersonic missiles, and other modern airborne threats.
- **2024-02** — General Radar launched Radar-as-a-Service (RaaS), a contractor-owned, operated and financed model for rapidly fielding AESA radar.
- **2022-06** — General Radar closed a $22M Series A led by Octave Ventures.

## Links

- Website: https://genrad.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dturbiner
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/general_radar
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/generalradarcorp/

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