Soundryx
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Summary

Soundryx, Inc. is a Delaware C corporation founded in January 2025 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It builds a distributed acoustic sensor network — mounted on utility poles, border fences, and similar fixed infrastructure — that uses onboard AI to identify drones, powerboats, vehicles, gunshots, and explosions by sound signature, then routes alerts to a customer’s security operations center (SOC). The company markets acoustic sensing explicitly as an anti-stealth complement to radar, thermal, and RF detection, arguing it can catch drones that evade those other modalities.

Key Facts

  • Legal name: Soundryx, Inc.
  • HQ: San Francisco, CA (1388 Haight St, Unit #384); development also credited to Los Angeles
  • Founded: January 2025
  • Founder & CEO: James Mishra
  • Type: Early-stage startup — acoustic sensor network hardware + AI classification software
  • Detection modality: Passive acoustic (sound-wave signature analysis), explicitly positioned as radar/thermal/RF-independent
  • Target markets: Critical infrastructure (oil & gas, electric utilities, agriculture, mining, timber), civilian venues (stadiums, festivals, universities, humanitarian aid), and government (military, law enforcement, border patrol, executive protection, corrections, environmental conservation)
  • Funding: Not publicly disclosed as of this review; no funding announcement found
  • Status: Early-stage, active; company website describes itself as “still a brand-new company” still hiring its founding team

What It Is / How It Works

Soundryx’s pitch is a four-step deployment model:

  1. Install Sensors — acoustic sensors placed on utility poles, border fences, and other strategic fixed points to blanket a wide area.
  2. Monitor for Threats — each sensor runs onboard AI/ML analysis of ambient sound to classify potential threats (drone aircraft, powerboats, ground vehicles, gunshots, explosions).
  3. Receive Alerts — detections are routed to the customer’s existing security operations center (SOC).
  4. Take Action — the customer decides on response (evacuation, equipment lockdown, or (for authorized government end users) neutralization); Soundryx does not appear to offer its own interdiction/kinetic countermeasure.

The company’s stated differentiator versus RF- and radar-based C-UAS vendors (Dedrone, DroneShield, Fortem, etc. — see other entries in this section) is coverage of radar-evading and RF-silent threats: acoustic sensing does not depend on a drone emitting a control-link signal or presenting a strong radar cross-section, so it is pitched as a way to catch stealth drones, fiber-optic/pre-programmed drones, and non-drone threats (vehicles, boats, gunfire) with the same sensor network. No independent test data on detection range, accuracy, or drone/bird discrimination performance was found; all performance claims currently trace back to the company’s own marketing site.

Soundryx’s underlying audio-ML technology stack is inherited from the founder’s earlier company, Neocrym (see Key People below), which built neural-network audio analysis tools for the music industry — the company states “much of the audio expertise—and some of the software—from Neocrym powers the technology stack behind Soundryx.”

Notable Developments

  • 2025-01: Soundryx, Inc. incorporated in Delaware.
  • 2025–2026: Company website live with sector-specific solution pages (oil & gas, electric utilities, agriculture, mining, timber, stadiums, festivals, universities, humanitarian aid, military, law enforcement, border patrol, executive protection, environmental conservation, corrections); actively recruiting for its founding team as of this review.

Key People

James Mishra — Founder & CEO

  • LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jamesmishra
  • X: @jamesmishra (personal); company account @soundryx — profile content not independently confirmable via automated fetch (client-rendered page), handle taken from Soundryx’s own “Contact James” / social links pages
  • Personal site: jamesmishra.com · Substack: substack.com/@jamesmishra
  • Education: B.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota
  • Career: Began in AI and computer security research at the University of Minnesota (TLS-traffic timing analysis), the US National Security Agency, the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Bitcoin protocol / quantum-computing vulnerability research), and NASA. Software engineer at Uber (Developer API; tech lead for the prototype that became UberHEALTH). Cofounded Anton (enterprise software startup, ultimately shut down). Founder & CEO of Neocrym (AI/neural-network audio analysis for pop music) prior to Soundryx; secondary sources also credit engineering/leadership work at DoorDash, not yet corroborated from a primary source.
  • ⚑ Overlap: No overlap yet identified with other companies documented in this Research section — flag for review as more C-UAS personnel entries are added.

People — Last Reviewed: 2026-07-06

Claim Verification

Claim: Acoustic sensing detects drones “invisible to radar” / stealth drones evading thermal and RF sensors

Status: Unverified — company marketing claim, no independent test data found. Supporting sources: Soundryx homepage, Soundryx solutions page — both company-stated. Summary: Plausible in principle (acoustic detection doesn’t depend on RF emission or radar cross-section) but no third-party range, accuracy, or false-positive-rate data has been published.

Claim: Neocrym technology stack directly powers Soundryx

Status: Company-stated, plausible given shared founder and audio-ML domain, not independently verified in technical detail. Supporting sources: Soundryx About page.

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