Skapion
Skapion builds a mobile counter-swarm air-defense battery — detection, classification and a launcher firing small kinetic interceptors — designed to defeat hundreds of cheap attack drones at a target cost below $10,000 per kill.
Background
Skapion was incorporated in Israel in October 2025 and spent roughly seven months in stealth before emerging in July 2026. Its founding premise is that conventional air defense was built to kill single, expensive aerial targets and breaks down economically when dozens or hundreds of cheap drones arrive at once. The team assembled around that argument is unusually senior for a seed-stage company. Brig. Gen.
(res.) Pini Yungman, who ran Rafael's Air and Missile Defense Systems division and worked on Iron Dome and David's Sling, serves as founding architect. CEO Ido Bar-On came from drone maker XTEND, where he led defense and government business, and is a former IDF special-operations lieutenant colonel in the reserves. Gal Goren, previously an R&D leader at Roboteam, is chief technology officer. Co-founders Zafrir Yoeli, of Enlight Renewable Energy, and defense entrepreneur Yaron Karp complete the group.
The company is structured as a US parent, Skapion, Inc., with an Israeli subsidiary, Skapion Ltd., that employs its engineers — a deliberate inversion of the usual Israeli-startup-with-a-sales-office pattern, aimed squarely at the Pentagon as the eventual buyer.