Keres
Kill the drone, keep the jet. Reusable unmanned interceptors.
The founders
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The company
Keres is building reusable unmanned jet interceptors for air defence. Its Garmur launches on cue, closes at jet speed, positively identifies and destroys drones and cruise missiles, then lands to fly again.
Cheap drones and cruise missiles are swarming contested airspace, and defending against them with million-dollar missiles is a losing trade. A reusable interceptor that flies, kills and comes home flips that cost equation.
Founded in 2026 in Denver by Christopher Palazzolo, Keres is going after a gap most air-defence spending ignores: a fighter-class response you don't have to throw away after one shot.
With a single named founder and an early-stage build underway, it's still a founder-led bet — the proof will come from hardware that launches, identifies, kills and lands as advertised.
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