Steve Messinger

Co-Founder & CTO @ Perseus Defense (YC S25)

Co-founder

Perseus Defense· Summer 2025🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

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2025Co-founder· Perseus Defense

Founder · since 2025

Company

Perseus Defense

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Austin, Texas, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Perseus Defense

America's Golden Dome for Drones

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

Perseus Defense
Co-founder
Co-Founder · Austin, Texas, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
EpiSci (acquired by Applied Intuition)
Research Scientist - Collaborative Autonomy · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2024 – 2025
2024
Aurora Flight Sciences
Guidance, Navigation, and Control Engineer · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2022 – 2024
2022
The Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University
R&D Engineering Graduate Assistant · State College, Pennsylvania, United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
The Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University
R&D Engineering Intern · State College, Pennsylvania Area · 2019 – 2020
2019

Bio

Co-founder & CTO of Perseus Defense. Swarm robotics researcher focused on building and deploying real-world autonomy. I’ve won swarm robotics competitions, built autonomy that allows Boeing aircraft to land themselves, and developed collaborative behaviors for unmanned boats.