YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Emil Falk

Founder of Tenet Industries, Low-cost, mass-producible defense systems

Company

Emil Falk is listed as a founder of Tenet Industries. Tenet Industries is building low-cost mass-producible defense systems, starting with attack drones. We're using design-for-manufacturing and first principles to reimagine how a defense product is developed and manufactured. We begin with the manufacturing, then solve all the inefficiencies and difficulties in the firmware/software. This allows us to hyperscale production in multiple defense categories such as strike drones, loitering munitions, jammers, radars, etc. Our first product is a kamikaze quadcopter. It assembles in two minutes and has half the parts to comparable systems.

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    One of the greatest traits a founder can have is being a great storyteller. @iantien at Mattermost is one of those founders. He went th...

    One of the greatest traits a founder can have is being a great storyteller. @iantien at Mattermost is one of those founders. He went through @ycombinator as a video game company. Then pivoted to building on-prem collaboration tools for organizations where the mission is so...

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    As software/firmware engineers becomes 10-100x more productive... What even is the moat? Had someone build me a specific software in 1 day that a bigger legacy SaaS company charges 2k USD per month for. This is also why we at Tenet is building our defense systems for Show more

    As software/firmware engineers becomes 10-100x more productive... What even is the moat? Had someone build me a specific software in 1 day that a bigger legacy SaaS company charges 2k USD per month for. This is also why we at Tenet is building our defense systems for Show more

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    The scary part of Russia’s missile list isn’t one “super weapon”, its the mix. Different types (ballistic, cruise, hypersonic) Different...

    The scary part of Russia’s missile list isn’t one “super weapon”, its the mix. Different types (ballistic, cruise, hypersonic) Different launch platforms (air, sea, land) And enough volume to keep striking over time We need solutions from @NADindustries and @aureliuslasers to...

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    The next frontier of manufacturing is not on Earth. It is in orbit. Microgravity, unlimited vacuum, and 24/7 solar energy create conditi...

    The next frontier of manufacturing is not on Earth. It is in orbit. Microgravity, unlimited vacuum, and 24/7 solar energy create conditions that are physically impossible to replicate at scale on the ground. Industries like semifabs stand to benefit enormously from these...

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    Arrived last night in Detroit for the Michigan Defense Expo and the @XPONENTIALshow and had a brief chance to explore Motown. Growing u...

    Arrived last night in Detroit for the Michigan Defense Expo and the @XPONENTIALshow and had a brief chance to explore Motown. Growing up in a family that supplied to the auto industry, this city ”the motor town” (known for its auto industry) hits differently. The bones of this...

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    @ycombinator should fund more companies working on the hardware test equipment side. The bottleneck in hardware development has shifted from code generation to code testing. At Tenet we have to build our own test equipment for our hardware in order to keep up with the increase

    @ycombinator should fund more companies working on the hardware test equipment side. The bottleneck in hardware development has shifted from code generation to code testing. At Tenet we have to build our own test equipment for our hardware in order to keep up with the increase

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    Gnosjö is the San Francisco of manufacturing. A small Swedish municipality with an insane concentration of family-owned manufacturers: i...

    Gnosjö is the San Francisco of manufacturing. A small Swedish municipality with an insane concentration of family-owned manufacturers: injection molding, CNC machining, sheet metal processing, and everything in between. It's also where I grew up. Where I learned everything...

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    The US procurement system for defense is much more streamlined than the European one.

    The US procurement system for defense is much more streamlined than the European one.