Bogdan Pyzh is Co-Founder and COO of 9 Mothers Corporation, a Y Combinator-backed defense tech startup building AI-powered counter-drone systems for the U.S. Government.

Bogdan studied at Baylor University, where he competed on the nationally ranked cybersecurity team, and went on to work as a Data Scientist at Rainforest QA, a YC S12 company.

With a background spanning data science, cybersecurity, and embedded systems, Bogdan brings a rare hacker-builder ethos to the fast-moving defense tech space.

At 9 Mothers, Bogdan co-leads development of the EDDA turret system, an autonomous AI point defense platform capable of engaging multiple FPV drones at 10-100m range with sub-15ms response times.

Backed by Y Combinator (P26 batch) and investors including Pioneer Fund and Theory Forge Ventures, 9 Mothers is actively deploying hardware in the field and scaling its kill-chain suite for U.S. military use.