Everyone else chases one target at a time. Three numbers explain why we don't.
NEVOD predicts the incoming track and places a modular net, on a rigid spreader bar, across the threat axis.
The wave flies into it, the net releases under impact, and the carrier flies home to reload. One sortie meets a whole wave, not one drone - only the net module is consumed.
Modular panel on a rigid spreader bar, mechanical break-away latches, swappable in the field.
Target set
3-inch drones flown as a training swarm, so every trial runs against real moving targets.
We build everything ourselves. Our two technical co-founders design the boards, write the firmware, and write the autonomy stack. No agency touched it, no contractor wrote a line of the core.
This runs, it isn't a mockup
What the numbers say
72%
AI interception vs 52% classical, single target
100%
net survival under AI policy vs 93% classical
288
hardware configurations swept in sim
0.92
mAP@50 on-board detection, ~155 FPS on Jetson
Full physics of the drone, net and release node, simulated on GPU.
See the market this technology is built for
Sizing, competitive position, and the unit economics of a $5 intercept.
Runs structuring, capital, and government & B2B access. Founded Sterling, a law firm, and built edupro.kz, a course platform for the family travel business. Hosted republic-level events attended by ministers and the Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan - the access NEVOD's government channel runs through.
Owns the autonomy stack: the GPU physics simulator, the reinforcement-learning barrier-placement policy, and the on-board detector. WorldSkills Kazakhstan gold medalist in CAD modelling, invited to represent Kazakhstan at EuroSkills; national medalist in competitive programming.
Designs the interceptor himself: multilayer PCBs, STM32 and ESP32 firmware, flight electronics, the net release mechanism. Built a modular PLC platform from scratch and used it to control a laser separator on a live conveyor line.
Turns plans into things that physically exist. Put the company's first capital in, negotiated NEVOD's lab and test-range access, and closed the component procurement the current hardware is built from.
Why this team
Two of us build the hardware with our own hands; the other two get it in front of buyers. Sergey pairs mechanical intuition with algorithms. Felix designs and builds the interceptor himself, boards to firmware. Arsen and Ilyas handle structuring, capital, and access. We're based where cheap drones first changed what defence costs, so a real pilot happens here in the time a Western vendor spends just getting range access.
This category exists for one figure. Not the price of the system - the price of stopping one drone.
~$3M
Patriot interceptor - one shot, one target
$100K+
Fortem DroneHunter - reusable, one target/sortie
$2,100
Wild Hornets STING - single-use rammer
$5
NEVOD - net panel only, carrier recovered
Sized from the bottom up
Market
SOM
$250M+
US, Europe and Central Asia - defense, energy, airports. Won pilot by pilot.
SAM
~$2.5B
Interception & mitigation for defense and critical infrastructure, ~38% of the counter-UAS market.
TAM
$6.6B → $20B
Global counter-UAS, 2025 to 2030, at ~25% CAGR.
We're not first to nets
Competition
Nets are a hundred years old. Being honest about who else flies them is how we show where our edge actually is.
Player
Approach
Per-kill economics
Where it leaves a gap
Fortem DroneHunter
Net-based interceptor; pursues and tows a single target
Primes' pricing, US federal buyer
Reusable but one target per sortie, priced out of commercial perimeters
Wild Hornets STING
Single-use rammer, produced at very high volume
~$2,100 per kill, airframe destroyed
Cheapest today, but every kill consumes the aircraft
RF / EW jamming
Cuts the control link
Low per shot
Nothing to cut on autonomous or fibre-optic drones
Missile air defense
Kinetic effectors
$100K to $3M per shot
Economically lost against a swarm
NEVOD
Barrier net across the threat axis; carrier returns
$5 per drone, net panel only
Whole-wave interception at consumable cost
Systems once, nets forever
Business model
Land one protected site, expand along the perimeter and into the customer's other assets. Hardware anchors the contract; consumable nets and coordination software build recurring revenue on the deployed base.
🔒 Under NDA
Detailed unit economics & the current raise
Price / system
$•.•K
Gross margin
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Raising
$•••K
Cap table
••/••/••/••
We're currently raising a pre-seed round to fund hardware validation through to a paid pilot. Full financials, equity structure and use-of-funds - available on request, under NDA.
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For partners
Where NEVOD fits next to you
NEVOD sits behind an RF/EW screen - the physical layer that catches what jamming lets through.
Component & hardware suppliers
Net materials, flight electronics and compute - we build in-house but source components locally and are looking for partners who can scale supply with us.
Integration partners
RF/EW vendors, radar and detection layers, site security integrators - NEVOD is the physical layer that catches what jamming can't stop.
Partnership inquiry
Become a partner
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Ground control station
Palace of Peace, test range
