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Greypoint Industries

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Greypoint builds autonomous sensing and interceptor systems that help allied forces defeat drone swarms.

HQVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 19h ago
Robotics

About

Greypoint Industries develops autonomous electronic-warfare and interception systems for Western and allied defense forces. Its LEGION platform detects, geolocates, and tracks battlefield radio emitters, while ARROW autonomous interceptors counter hostile drones; the company differentiates through mass-produced, lower-cost autonomous systems designed for frontline deployment.

Market

Greypoint competes in defense electronic warfare, RF-based battlefield sensing, autonomous drone systems, and counter-UAS. Its positioning emphasizes using adversaries’ radio signals to locate obscured targets such as drone operators, jammers, and command posts, then coordinating autonomous interceptors, rather than relying only on conventional drone interception. It differentiates through a reportedly mass-producible, lower-cost autonomous architecture, Western/Canadian manufacturing, and interoperability with existing command-and-control platforms.

Target Customers

Greypoint primarily serves national defense ministries, armed forces, and military/security organizations seeking battlefield sensing, electronic-warfare, reconnaissance, and counter-UAS capabilities. Its likely buyers are defense procurement officials, military operators, and frontline units rather than commercial enterprises; the evidence does not specify a minimum customer-company size.

At a Glance

Problem

Greypoint Industries addresses the battlefield visibility and survivability problem created by increasingly capable drones, jammers, command posts, and concealed drone operators. Conventional forces can be forced to react to threats they cannot see, while drone saturation makes one-for-one defensive responses economically unattractive. Greypoint’s stated mission is to make warfighters harder to kill by revealing signals and threats that are invisible to the naked eye; its autonomous-interceptor concept is intended to defeat saturation at a fraction of the cost of the targets.

The clearest use case is finding the people and systems controlling hostile drones. By detecting and geolocating enemy radio emitters, Greypoint aims to expose drone operators, jammers, and command posts before they can continue an attack, allowing friendly forces to act proactively rather than merely intercepting individual drones after launch.

Product / Service

Greypoint is developing a vertically integrated electronic-warfare and counter-UAS system built around LEGION, or Linked Emitter Geolocation Network. LEGION fuses sensor data into a real-time shared battlefield picture, detects signals without alerting the target, and geolocates those signals from aerial platforms and vehicles. The platform is designed to interoperate with existing command-and-control systems and upstream effectors rather than requiring a completely separate battlefield architecture.

The system’s effecting layer is ARROW, an autonomous teaming interceptor cued by LEGION to defeat hostile drones. Together, the products create a detect–geolocate–intercept workflow: identify threats through their emissions, fix their positions, share the information with friendly forces, and dispatch autonomous interceptors when appropriate. The intended benefit is earlier warning, better targeting of the source of attacks, and a more scalable defense against drone swarms.

Market

Greypoint competes in defense technology at the intersection of electronic warfare, RF sensing and geolocation, autonomous robotics, and counter-unmanned-aircraft systems. Its closest competitive set includes established counter-UAS and electronic-warfare providers such as Anduril, Epirus, and Sentrycs, although Greypoint’s combination of emitter geolocation with autonomous aerial interception gives it a distinct early-stage positioning. The broader market is being driven by the need for integrated awareness and affordable responses to drone saturation, rather than reliance only on expensive traditional interceptors.

The company appears to be an early commercial-stage startup rather than a business with demonstrated scaled revenue. Y Combinator lists it as an active Summer 2026 company founded in 2026, and reports that it has won a Canadian Government contract, demonstrated with the Armed Forces, and successfully geolocated a target using its aerial platform. Those are meaningful validation signals, but the available evidence does not disclose revenue, production volume, or a large deployed customer base; the strongest documented traction is therefore contract, demonstration, and technical-validation traction.

Founders & Leadership

Darcy ZhangFounder
Co-Founder, CEO
Nic ChuFounder
Co-Founder, COO
Jordan KhooFounder
Co-Founder, CTO
Steven XuFounder
Co-Founder

Funding History

2025-10
Accelerator/IncubatorUndisclosed

UBC Seed Fund

2026-01
Accelerator/Incubator$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-30product
Greypoint Industries: Drone swarms that find drone operators

Y Combinator’s Launch YC profile announced Greypoint’s LEGION drone swarm, which uses enemy radio signals to identify, geolocate, and track battlefield emitters. It also reported that Greypoint had won a Canadian Government contract, demonstrated with the Armed Forces, and geolocated a target using its aerial platform.

2026-07-29
Why Defense Innovation Is Moving Beyond Traditional Contractors

Greypoint’s press page lists this Newsweek coverage dated July 29, 2026. Available snippets indicate the article discusses Greypoint’s broader defense-innovation argument and structural incentives affecting defense procurement.

2026-07-15funding
Greypoint Industries listed among Y Combinator’s 2026 defense startups

Y Combinator’s 2026 defense-startup directory described Greypoint’s LEGION as a drone swarm that identifies, geolocates, and tracks battlefield emitters using the enemy’s radio signals. Greypoint’s LinkedIn profile identifies the company as YC S26 and backed by Y Combinator.

2026-06-30
Canada’s spy agency goes offensive

The Icebreaker mentioned Greypoint Industries as the team that took home the top prize at Canada’s first-ever Defence Tech Hackathon. The article is broader coverage of Canada’s defense and security technology ecosystem.

2026-05-03funding
Grey Point Industries wins UBC Startups’ SOAR grand prize

UBC Startups’ post recapped its March 22 SOAR pitch competition, a $10,000 event, and announced that Grey Point Industries took home the grand prize.

2026-02-26partnership
New Canadian Defence Alliance ACDC Launches

Dronelife reported the launch of the Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies, which brought together more than 25 firms to advocate for procurement reform. Greypoint’s official site listed this article among its press coverage.

2025-12-08
Our best yet! Recapping the 2025 Venture Showcase

UBC Innovation published a recap of its 2025 Venture Showcase, which Greypoint’s official website lists under the company’s press coverage.

2025-10-10
Meet our 50th cohort of Venture Founder: the next wave of innovators leading the charge

UBC Innovation announced its 50th Venture Founder cohort. Greypoint’s official website lists the article as coverage involving the company and its founding team.

2025-10-02
Team Greypoint wins first Defence Tech Hackathon

SpaceQ reported that Team Greypoint won the first Defence Tech Hackathon. The event was supported by Build Canada, the DMZ, SkyWatch, and NordSpace, with prize money distributed among three winning teams.

2025-09-22
Defence hackathon brings whizzes from across Canada together to solve Arctic surveillance

The Globe and Mail covered a Canadian defense hackathon focused on rapidly developing scalable solutions for maritime tracking in the North. Greypoint’s press page identifies its team as holding the event’s first-place cheque.

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Business Model

Greypoint appears to monetize through defense procurement contracts, selling integrated sensing platforms and autonomous interceptor systems to government and military customers. It has publicly reported a Canadian government contract, while specific pricing, recurring-revenue terms, and contract values have not been disclosed.

Products

LEGION — Linked Emitter Geolocation Network, a pan-domain sensing and drone-swarm platform that detects, identifies, geolocates, and tracks radio emittersARROW — autonomous teaming interceptors cued by LEGION to defeat hostile dronesIntegrated LEGION–ARROW sensing-and-effector system for battlefield detection, geolocation, and interception

Customers

Government of Canada (contract)Canadian Armed Forces (demonstration/partner)National Defence / Défense nationale (listed partner)

Tech Stack

RF signal intelligence (SIGINT)Emitter geolocationAutonomous drone swarms and teamingReal-time sensor fusion and common operating pictureC2-platform interoperabilityGNSS-denied autonomous operation

Competitors

AeroVironment (AV)
Anduril
Epirus
DroneShield
Northrop Grumman
ParaZero