Aurelius Systems is a San Francisco defense-technology startup building Archimedes, an autonomous, high-powered laser turret that detects, tracks and neutralizes drones in seconds for roughly the cost of electricity. Founded in 2024 by photonics veterans Michael LaFramboise and John Marmaduke, the company fuses commercial off-the-shelf hardware, advanced optics and AI-guided targeting into a compact, low-cost counter-UAS platform aimed at protecting soldiers and critical infrastructure from cheap, swarming aerial threats.
Glide is a San Francisco no-code app builder that turns spreadsheets and databases into mobile and web apps without writing code. Founded in 2018 by four former Xamarin engineers and launched out of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch, Glide lets anyone build software from data they already have. Since 2023 the company has leaned hard into AI - adding Glide AI, AI agents, and plain-language app generation - to pursue its stated mission of putting software creation into the hands of a billion new creators.