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Thor Dynamics
Thor Dynamics is a Palo Alto-based defense-tech startup building Laser Armor, an AI-powered directed-energy system that detects, tracks, and neutralizes hostile drones and drone swarms with a high-energy laser. Founded in 2024 by a team of MIT- and Wharton-trained operators and former U.S. Navy leadership, the company pairs up-to-20-kilowatt laser output with reinforcement-learning targeting and NVIDIA edge compute to deliver affordable, scalable counter-drone defense for critical infrastructure and the military.
Gleb Chuvpilo
Gleb Chuvpilo is an American serial entrepreneur, engineer, and venture investor who is co-founder and CEO of Thor Dynamics, the maker of Laser Armor, an AI-driven directed-energy system built to detect, track, and burn drone swarms out of the sky within seconds from a kilometer away. A graduate of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Wharton School, he was an early Palantir engineer, traded quant strategies at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, invested alongside Peter Thiel at Thiel Macro, and co-founded startups including Authy (Y Combinator 2012, acquired by Twilio), Ride, and Pager. He also runs deep-tech VC firm Thundermark Capital and is known in AI circles for his annual AI Research Rankings analyzing publication output at NeurIPS and ICML.