Florida startup markets hand-launched counter-drone missile, records show $2.3 million raised

MELBOURNE, Fla. (Oct. 13, 2026) SerenX Inc., a company on Florida’s Space Coast, markets two small guided missiles meant to destroy drones. The company says a single soldier can carry the missiles in a rucksack and launch them by hand without a launcher. Corporate filings, federal securities records and archived versions of the company’s websites show the following:

• The company was founded in 2025 as Orcrist.
• It raised $2,305,500 from six investors.
• It has published differing figures for the weight, speed and readiness of its main product across successive versions of its marketing.

The company

SerenX, Inc. is a Delaware corporation. It registered to do business in Florida as a foreign profit corporation on Nov. 3, 2025, under the name Orcrist, Inc., according to the Florida Division of Corporations. The state record shows the following:

• A name change amendment filed June 4, 2026.
• An annual report filed April 9, 2026.
• A principal address of 727 North Drive, Suite B, in Melbourne, updated Sept. 11, 2026.
• One officer, Scott Hasbrouck, with the title code “PD.”

The company’s website lists Commercial and Government Entity code 22VT1 and Directorate of Defense Trade Controls registration M51438. SerenX states that it is “a DDTC registered Arms manufacturer and Exporter.” The company also says its missiles are classified as man-portable air defense systems under Category IV(a)(3) of the U.S. Munitions List and are subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

The company’s export control statement carries an effective date of June 18, 2026. It says that SerenX classifies its systems itself and that “final and binding classification rests with the U.S. Government.” The statement also says it supersedes earlier website language “that referenced EAR and ITAR jurisdiction interchangeably,” which the company called “imprecise.”

Financing

SerenX filed a Form D notice of exempt offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 3, 2026. The filing reports the following:

• $2,305,500 sold.
• Nothing remaining in the offering.
• Six accredited investors and no nonaccredited investors.
• No sales commissions or finder’s fees.
• A first sale on Aug. 27, 2025.
• Securities described as options or other rights to acquire securities.
• The Rule 506(b) exemption.
• The previous name Orcrist, Inc.
• Incorporation in Delaware in 2025.

The filing lists three people:

• Hasbrouck, as an executive officer and director.
• Serge Glushenko, as a director.
• Norman Forbes, as an executive officer.

Forbes signed the notice as chief financial officer on Sept. 2, 2026. The SEC’s company record gives a business address of 411 North Orange Ave., Suite 800, in Orlando.

RuntimeWire reported the filing on Sept. 3, 2026. It noted that the filing came more than a year after the first sale and that it does not identify the investors or the terms of the securities.

An archived “Why Orcrist” page captured Feb. 12, 2026, says the company went “TRL-1 to TRL-6 in 10 months. Zero venture capital.”

Leadership

The SerenX company page lists these people:

• Hasbrouck, founder and chief technology officer.
• Glushenko, co-founder and CEO.
• Dale Coxwell, director of special programs.
• Dr. Michael Kinzel, principal aerodynamics adviser.
• Jim Cantrell, special aerospace adviser.
• Arthur Lindh, field engineer.
• Kurt Bozarth, chief test pilot.

The page does not list Forbes, and it does not give the advisers’ affiliations.

An Orcrist leadership page archived Feb. 12, 2026 identified Hasbrouck as founder and CEO and gave this account of his background:

• He founded Orcrist in February 2025.
• He did graduate work in physical chemistry at the University of Georgia from 2010 to 2012.
• He took part in Y Combinator in summer 2016 and, as chief technology officer, in winter 2021.
• By 2019 he was working on NASA and U.S. Space Force research projects as a software architect.
• He later served as chief technology officer of a company that designed and deployed two satellites.

The page said Hasbrouck “holds 15 patents (pending/issued).” It also said the company reached Technology Readiness Level 6 in October 2025, “just eight months after founding.”

RuntimeWire reported that Hasbrouck has described himself as chief technology officer of Sivo, a financial technology company from Y Combinator’s winter 2021 batch.

A search of Google Patents on Oct. 13 found these publications naming a Scott Hasbrouck as inventor:

• U.S. Patent 11,257,267, a method for generating a handwriting vector, assigned to ConversionRobotics Inc.
• Application US20210374888A1, on systems for training and evaluation, assigned to Talon Tactical Systems LLC.
• A proof of location and velocity blockchain consensus mechanism, assigned to Space Telecommunications Inc. It was published as CA3295785A1 and EP4728691A2.

The search found no published patent or application assigned to Orcrist or SerenX. Patent applications generally are not published until 18 months after filing.

An Orcrist team page archived July 12, 2025 listed a different leadership group and gave Orcrist, LLC’s address as 9111 Cross Park Drive, Suite D200, in Knoxville, Tennessee:

• Hasbrouck, founder and CEO.
• Cyrus Miryekta, co-founder and president.
• Devin Aiuto, co-founder and director of product.
• Cantrell, aerospace adviser.

That page described Miryekta as a former Air Force and Space Force counterintelligence agent and a founding member of the Defense Innovation Unit. It described Aiuto as a Navy combat veteran and the founder and CEO of Method Endeavors, a security firm. It described Cantrell as a founding engineer of SpaceX and the CEO and founder of Phantom Space.

Miryekta and Aiuto do not appear on the current SerenX company page. An archived Orcrist “Combat” page captured Jan. 12, 2026, directed readers to “contact Method Endeavors for availability, training, and deployment coordination.”

Product history

The earliest archived marketing found for the venture is a page at orcrist.us captured Feb. 10, 2025. It advertised the “APM-1 Sarathiel” personal missile with these specifications:

• 905 by 56 millimeters (35.6 by 2.2 inches).
• A warhead of “up to 1 kg” (2.2 pounds) of TNT.
• A range of 1 to 2 kilometers (0.6 to 1.2 miles).
• “Supersonic in 500 milliseconds.”
• A “10 Missile Rapid Fire-and-Forget” counter-swarm capability.

The page named the seller as Orcrist, LLC. It said the missile was “Developed in Partnership with Deep Planet Research, LLC, a US DDTC Registered Arms Manufacturer.”

By January 2026, the Orcrist site advertised two systems, SEAM-1 and SEAM-2.

An archived SEAM-1 page called it “The World’s First Electric MANPADS Counter-Drone Missile” and listed these specifications:

• A speed of 117 meters per second (262 mph).
• A pursuit range of 8 kilometers (5 miles).
• A weight of 2.8 kilograms (6.2 pounds).
• A 500-gram (1.1-pound) warhead.

The page said the missile could be thrown “like a football” and could return “without GPS” and hover for operator pickup when used against small drones. It listed the system at Technology Readiness Level 6 to 7.

The archived Combat page from the same date listed the 2.8-kilogram figure. It also said SEAM-1 “delivers complete counter-UAS at 3.5kg” (7.7 pounds). It described SEAM-1 as available now at Technology Readiness Level 6 to 7 and said “Production allocation for 2026 is severely limited.”

The archived SEAM-2 page described a 3.5-kilogram turbojet missile with these claims:

• A speed above 450 knots (518 mph).
• An operating ceiling of 45,000 feet.
• A cost of about one-tenth that of a Hellfire missile.
• A live demonstration “coming Mid-2026.”

Orcrist’s January 2026 site also promoted HALYX, a security product for schools, stadiums, estates and military bases. The archived HALYX page said it would deflect bullets by “instantly deploying a high speed liquid barrier.” HALYX does not appear on the SerenX site.

Current products

SerenX now markets the SX-1 and SX-2.

SX-1

SerenX describes the SX-1 on its product page and home page as an electric missile. The published figures are:

• Propulsion: a single electric ducted fan producing 130 newtons (29 pounds) of thrust.
• Steering: a nozzle that gimbals up to 23 degrees.
• Size: 76 millimeters (3 inches) in diameter and 110 centimeters (43 inches) long.
• Mass: 5.78 kilograms (12.7 pounds) in its “test config.” The home page gives a separate figure of “7kg loaded weight” (15.4 pounds).
• Top speed: about 78 meters per second (175 mph) “sim/CFD,” or about 88 meters per second (197 mph) with a planned aerodynamic upgrade.
• Range: marketing copy on the same page says the missile pursues targets “up to 8km” at a sustained speed it gives as 280 kilometers per hour.

The specification sheet lists the SX-1’s status as “Export pathway cleared, to be fielded Q4 2026.” The home page lists it at Technology Readiness Level 6, with Level 7 “expected 2026.” The SX-2 page says “The SX-1 is fielded.”

The company says the SX-1 operates this way:

• Launch: It is a tail-sitting airframe that stands on its own thrust, so it can be released from the hand without a rail or tube.
• Seeker: It finds targets with a camera and a neural network running on an onboard graphics processor. Interchangeable electro-optical or infrared seeker heads twist on.
• Training: It ships “pre-trained on common UAS threats” and can be “custom-trained from a few sample photos.”
• Warheads: They twist on and include integrated safe-and-arm and fuzing electronics. Options listed are a 1-kilogram fragmentation warhead and a “Supercapacitor EMP” payload.
• Guidance: It uses proportional navigation.
• Launch threshold: It computes a predicted probability of kill before launch and “will not launch” if that figure is below 60%.

The company says an operator aims the missile while an audio tone speeds up as the target centers, then holds an arm button for two seconds to release it.

SX-2

SerenX describes the SX-2 as a turbojet version that uses the same seeker heads, warheads and onboard computer. The page labels its specifications “Pre-flight design targets, not measured flight data.” They are:

• Thrust: 190 newtons (43 pounds).
• Mass: about 4 kilograms dry plus about 2 kilograms of kerosene, Jet-A or JP-8 fuel, about 6 kilograms (13.2 pounds) in all.
• Top speed: about 280 meters per second (626 mph).

The page states “In build. Flying in 2026.”

Software

SerenX markets four software products:

• Primorex: onboard targeting and guidance software. The company says it simulates each engagement before launch and serves a web app to a phone over the missile’s own WiFi.
• Solundra: flight control software. The company says it runs a 400-cycle-per-second control loop with a 22-millisecond command-to-deflection time. A graphic on the Solundra page depicts a simulated intercept of a Shahed-136 drone with a closest point of approach of 0.42 meters.
• Kaldrex: a command post that runs on a rugged laptop. The company says it ingests tracks from Robin Radar IRIS, SpotterRF and MyDefence radars and from Cursor on Target and ASTERIX feeds. It ships offline map packs for Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan.
• Delvix: an application programming interface for arming and firing the missiles from outside command and control systems, including ATAK and WinTAK. The page says the SX-1 seeker transmits video on the ROVER waveform before launch.

The Delvix page says every engagement “requires a deliberate operator action” before the software commits to fire.

The export control statement says the website “does not publish system specifications, design or production data, performance parameters, software, or other controlled technical data.” The SX-1 and SX-2 pages publish mass, thrust, speed, steering and guidance figures. Each page carries a disclaimer that “System performance data reflects controlled test conditions.”

Market claims

SerenX’s home page frames its product against cost. It says “The threat costs $40,000. The defense costs $3 million” and that adversaries launched hundreds of Shahed-class drones per day in 2025. The company page puts that figure at “500+” per day.

The company page says, “Every system SerenX builds is validated in actual combat environments, tested with operators.” SerenX’s public materials do not name a customer, test range, unit or government evaluation, and the company does not publish a unit price.

Federal records

Searches on Oct. 13 found no federal record linking SerenX or Orcrist to a contract or registration:

• USAspending.gov showed no federal contract, grant or other transaction award to SerenX, Inc. or Orcrist, Inc.
• The public entity search on SAM.gov returned no record for the names SerenX or Orcrist or for CAGE code 22VT1.

RuntimeWire reported that the U.S. Army’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has announced counter-drone procurements, including a contract worth up to $500 million. It also reported that it found no public link between SerenX and those awards.

Operations

SerenX’s careers page lists eight full-time, on-site positions in Melbourne, with posted salaries from $55,000 to $180,000 plus equity:

• Senior mechanical design engineer.
• Mechanical design engineer I/II.
• Electrical systems and avionics integration engineer.
• Senior flight software engineer.
• Senior targeting and autonomous UAS software engineer.
• Integration and flight test engineer.
• Electro-mechanical prototype technician.
• R&D lab and configuration manager.

The company also sells branded merchandise through shop.serenx.com. Archived Orcrist pages from early 2026 described a “Team of 6.”

Sources

1. SerenX home page, SX-1, SX-2, Company, Careers, Export Control, accessed Oct. 12 and 13, 2026.
2. SerenX technology pages: Delvix API, Primorex, Solundra, Kaldrex.
3. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Form D, SerenX, Inc., CIK 0002153053, accession 0002153053-26-000001, filed Sept. 3, 2026.
4. Florida Division of Corporations, SerenX, Inc., document F25000006185.
5. RuntimeWire, “SerenX discloses $2.3M offering a year after first sale,” Sept. 3, 2026.
6. Internet Archive captures of orcrist.us and orcrist.com: Feb. 10, 2025; team, July 12, 2025; SEAM-1, SEAM-2, Combat and HALYX, Jan. 12 and 13, 2026; Leadership and Why Orcrist, Feb. 12, 2026.
7. Google Patents, inventor search for Scott Hasbrouck: US11257267B2, US20210374888A1, CA3295785A1, EP4728691A2.
8. USAspending.gov and SAM.gov public entity searches, Oct. 13, 2026.