AT THE END of February 2022—a few days after cofounders Luke Allen and Steven Simoni sold their 90-person restaurant-tech startup to DoorDash—Russia invaded Ukraine.
Allen, who, like Simoni, had served in the Navy, immediately pivoted and started designing virtual-reality headset software that would help train Ukrainian soldiers in the use of Javelin anti-tank weapons provided by the U.S. military. Soon his focus turned to the drones deployed in the conflict.
Allen persuaded Simoni to leave DoorDash earlier this year and work with him at his
