David Venegas is the Founder and CEO of Edgerun Industries, a Y Combinator-backed company building military exoskeletons to increase human strength and endurance on the battlefield.

David built deep expertise in frontier hardware as Head of Operations at Durin, an early engineer at Hadrian, and a software engineer at Stoke Space, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary foundation in robotics, manufacturing, and aerospace.

David operates with a pro-human expansionist philosophy, believing that every system on the modern battlefield has been upgraded except the warfighter, and that physical augmentation is the missing frontier.

Edgerun is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch and has completed 100+ field tests with Ukrainian operators out of its Kyiv field office, validating its technology in active combat conditions.

Edgerun's 10 lb hip-mounted exoskeleton reduces the effort of moving under combat load by 30 to 45%, addressing a crisis where U.S. infantrymen carry 90 to 140 lbs into a fight, nearly triple the Army's own recommended limit.