Theseus
About
About Theseus
Theseus Cyclops compares live electro-optical or long-wave infrared imagery from an aircraft with pre-generated maps derived from satellite or aerial data. Inertial measurements constrain the search, while the visual-matching software estimates the aircraft’s location and sends a passive position fix to the flight controller through MAVLink. The method does not emit a navigation signal that an adversary can detect or jam.
Cyclops can run on compact onboard computers including Raspberry Pi 5 and NVIDIA Jetson hardware. Theseus reports flight tests at altitudes around 1.1 kilometres and routes exceeding 100 kilometres, with location errors below approximately 50 metres in selected trials. Aircraft developers integrate the software with their existing camera, inertial sensor, autopilot and stored terrain data as an additional navigation source when GNSS is unavailable or untrusted.
Funding
- 2025-04-17 - Seed - $4.3M - Theseus raises $4.3M seed round for GPS-denied drone navigation
Theseus raised $4.3 million in seed funding to transition its Micro VPS visual-navigation system into a fieldable product. - source: theseus.us
Investors
- First Round Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-17
- Lux Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-17
- Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-17
Team
- Ian Laffey - Founder
- Sacha Lévy - Founder
Timeline
Events
- 2025-04-17 - Funding - Theseus raises $4.3M seed round for GPS-denied drone navigation
First Round Capital led the seed round, with participation from Y Combinator and Lux Capital. Micro VPS compares onboard camera imagery with stored satellite maps to provide positioning when GPS is jammed or unavailable. Theseus said the capital would support fielding the system after development and testing with USSOCOM operators across varied terrain.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- USSOCOM
Operational Development
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