Tornyol's 40-Gram Drone Hunts Mosquitoes By Sound, Not Chemicals
Founders Alex Toussaint and Clovis Piedallu's Tornyol, backed by Y Combinator, scored its first air-to-air kill on July 14, a moth.
- The 40-gram drone listens for wingbeat echoes, filtering wasps and moths by acoustic fingerprint.
- Manifund granted $28,600 before Y Combinator accepted the pair into its Fall 2025 batch.
- Founders say the method could cut mosquito control costs 100-fold to fight malaria.
Why it matters: Y Combinator money buys a working demo faster than it buys a mosquito actually killed.
Not the Bee (profiling the Tornyol Project, official site tornyol.com) ↗ · Jul 16, 20267/16/26