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How two 23-year-old former IDF operators plan to map the spectrum for wireless systems everywhere
Started by two childhood friends and business partners after witnessing the drone mission failures caused by unreliable spectrum data, Israeli startup Bond is building a distributed sensor network to give operators continuous visibility over the environments where their wireless systems operate.
“Wireless systems should not discover the problem only after they have already been affected,” says Jonathan Gurvits, CEO of autonomy tech company Bond. “Our goal is not to build another expensive spectrum sensor. It is to build the network that maps the spectrum everywhere.”
Gurvits co-founded the startup with COO Tomer Cohen in 2026, after the two former IDF operators experienced the same spectrum problem from opposite sides of the military. Both 23 years old, the two grew up in Rehovot, have been best friends since middle school, and have been building businesses together since they were 15.
The idea for Bond came to be when Gurvits, who had trained over 100 Spectrum Controllers, discovered Cohen's drone units were suffering mission failures because the IDF's spectrum control information was too unreliable to trust in the field.
“We gave up two very good jobs because we believed this problem was worth building a company around,” Gurvits continues. “That became Bond.”
You can learn more about the company below.
Company Name: BOND RF
Sector: Autonomy
Product/Service description:
Bond is building a real-time intelligence layer for the radio spectrum. Our platform detects, maps and analyzes GNSS and RF disruptions, helping drone operators, autonomous systems and defense teams understand where signals are reliable, where interference is occurring and how conditions are changing in real time.
Bond combines data from distributed sensors into a live operational map and API. In one recent deployment, our system detected interference before it became visible on the drone itself, allowing the operator to respond before the aircraft was put at risk.
We are now expanding from GNSS monitoring into a broader RF intelligence network. Our long-term vision is to deploy a global grid of low-cost sensors that continuously maps spectrum activity across cities, critical infrastructure and operational environments.
Founder Bios:
Bond was founded by Jonathan Gurvits and Tomer Cohen, two former IDF operators who experienced the same problem from opposite sides of the spectrum.
Jonathan Gurvits, Co-Founder and CEO, served as an electronic warfare specialist, working with technologies designed to disrupt and manipulate radio signals. Tomer Cohen, Co-Founder and COO, served as a UAV operator and commander, where he experienced firsthand what happens when those same signals are jammed during real-world drone operations. One founder was responsible for creating interference. The other had to keep operating through it.
Their backgrounds give Bond a unique combination of electronic warfare knowledge, operational experience and a firsthand understanding of how signal disruption affects missions in the field.
Year of Founding: 2026
Last Investment Round: $200K
Last Investment Stage: Pre-Seed
Date of Last Investment: 08/01/2026
Total investment to date: $200K
Investors: IAI, Deel Ventures
Current number of employees: 2
Website: bondrf.com
Social Media: LinkedIn
How was the idea born?
Bond was born from a problem we both experienced in the military from two different sides. Tomer first encountered the problem through drones. As a combat soldier in the Armored Corps, he followed the war in Ukraine and saw cheap drones changing the battlefield while they were barely discussed in training. He pushed to introduce drone-threat training into his unit and paid from his own pocket when there was no budget. Tomer later became responsible for drone training in the Commando Brigade, training hundreds of operators.
I encountered the same problem through spectrum control. I was part of Cohort 001, the first ever IDF class for a new military role called "Spectrum Controller". The role was created to manage the military's use of frequencies, prevent systems from interfering with one another and understand when Israeli or hostile jamming was affecting friendly systems.
That was where I saw the deeper problem: military systems depend on frequencies to communicate, navigate and operate, but there was no dense sensor network showing in real time where interference was reaching or which frequencies were actually available. Spectrum allocation was largely static while the battlefield was constantly changing.
After training more than 100 Spectrum Controllers, I asked Tomer whether his teams relied on the IDF's spectrum control information. Tomer's answer shocked me: "I don't trust the IDF's spectrum control information. Every time we rely on it, drones fall and the mission gets hurt."
We gave up two very good jobs because we believed this problem was worth building a company around. That became Bond.
What is the need for the product?
Every wireless system depends on spectrum. GPS, drones, radios, cellular networks, autonomous systems, military platforms and critical infrastructure all rely on wireless signals traveling through an environment that operators cannot actually see. That creates a major vulnerability.
A signal can be intentionally jammed, accidentally interfered with or affected by another system operating nearby. When that happens, communication, navigation or control can suddenly fail.
Bond is built to protect wireless systems and the operations that depend on them from jamming and interference by giving operators a real-time understanding of the spectrum around them.
A drone is an easy example. Before flying, an operator can check the weather, battery and route, but usually cannot answer two equally important questions: will GPS work throughout the flight, and will communication with the drone remain reliable?
Today, Bond's software maps GPS interference in real time, showing where GPS is working, where it is jammed or spoofed and how conditions are changing. The goal is simple: wireless systems should not discover the problem only after they have already been affected.
How is it changing the market?
Today, spectrum problems are usually handled reactively. A communication system stops working, a drone loses positioning or an autonomous platform behaves unexpectedly, and only then does someone begin trying to understand what happened. Even after the incident, there are often not enough tools or historical measurements to investigate it properly. A spectrum investigation can take days or even weeks.
We want to turn that into a real-time process. Imagine opening a map before an operation and seeing the spectrum the way you see weather: where GPS is reliable, where it is disrupted, which frequencies are congested, which are available, what changed five minutes ago and what the exact same location looked like a month ago.
Bond continuously collects that information, so customers can understand what is happening now and also investigate what happened days, weeks or months earlier. Eventually, we want wireless systems themselves to consume this data and adapt automatically when the spectrum around them changes.
The shift is from discovering interference after a system has already failed to understanding it in real time, predicting its impact and protecting the operation while it is still happening.
How big is the market for the product and who are its main customers?
We estimate the broader market around spectrum technology at approximately $30 billion. The market is large because almost every critical system is becoming more wireless; the customers are not limited to one industry. They include defense companies and militaries, drone operators, aviation and airspace organizations, telecom companies, smart cities, autonomous systems and critical infrastructure operators.
They all share the same problem: increasingly important systems depend on wireless connectivity, while the organizations operating them have limited visibility into the spectrum around them.
Bond already has more than 10 paying customers, including Kela Technologies, Israel Aerospace Industries, D-Fend Solutions, Cando, Propeller Drones, Robotican and Kronomy. Defense and drones were our natural starting point because we came directly from those worlds and the pain is immediate, but the same infrastructure is relevant anywhere reliable positioning, communication or wireless operation matters.
Does the product exist already?
Yes. Both the software and hardware already exist and are working in the field, but they currently serve different parts of the vision. The software product customers use today is focused on GPS. It provides a real-time map showing where GPS is working normally and where it is being jammed or spoofed, helping operators understand the problem before their drone or system is affected.
The hardware is the next layer. We have developed our own low-cost spectrum sensors, and a limited number are already deployed in the field and feeding data into the network. Unlike the current software product, which focuses on GPS problems, the sensor network is designed to monitor the full range of frequencies relevant to wireless systems.
Interestingly, the GPS product was not our original vision. During our early validation process, two large drone companies told us they urgently needed a real-time GPS map to stop losing drones and missions. We changed direction, built it for them, and they became our first two pilots.
Today we have working software, working hardware, field deployments and more than 10 paying customers. We are now recruiting a VP R&D and preparing to raise our seed round to scale the technology and network.
Who are the main competitors in this sector and how big are they?
There are established companies solving different parts of the spectrum problem, but there is no company building the same vision as Bond: a dense, real-time spectrum network designed to provide continuous visibility without blind spots.
Some companies map GPS interference mainly for aviation, at resolutions and altitudes relevant to aircraft. Bond is designed for systems operating on or close to the ground, where spectrum conditions can change significantly over short distances.
Another category consists of companies selling highly sophisticated spectrum-monitoring sensors that can cost roughly $10,000 to $400,000 each. These systems can be extremely capable, but their price naturally means customers deploy relatively few of them, leaving large areas without coverage.
One expensive sensor can tell you what is happening around that sensor. A dense distributed network can show where interference starts, where it ends, how it changes across an area and which systems are likely to be affected. Our goal is not to build another expensive spectrum sensor. It is to build a network that maps the spectrum everywhere.
What is the added value that the founders bring to the company and the product?
I come from spectrum and electronic warfare, while Tomer comes from drones and field operations. The army gave us the professional combination for Bond. I spent my service trying to understand what was happening in the spectrum, while Tomer spent his making sure drones could successfully operate inside that environment.
But the bigger advantage is that we have been entrepreneurs together since we were teenagers. We met in middle school and became best friends. By the time we started Bond at 22, we had already spent years building businesses, selling, dealing with customers, taking financial risks and learning how the other person behaves when things get difficult.
After almost a decade of friendship, businesses, military service and traveling the world together, there is a level of trust between us that is difficult to manufacture between cofounders. We did not meet because we wanted to start Bond. We started Bond because building things together had already become part of who we were.
What will the money coming in from the round be used for?
The round will primarily be used to scale Bond's technology and deployment. A major part will go into R&D, including our sensors, firmware, signal processing, software and the infrastructure required to turn thousands of distributed measurements into a real-time map of the spectrum. We also plan to significantly expand the engineering team and recruit a VP R&D.
In Israel, we want to build a network dense enough to have approximately one Bond sensor every three kilometers across the country. Internationally, we want to map at least two major cities outside Israel and win at least two significant defense contracts abroad.
Since starting Bond, we have won The Pitch by Deel, received investment from Israel Aerospace Industries and several highly strategic angel investors, deployed our hardware and signed more than 10 paying customers. Now we want to take what we have proven locally and scale it globally. Long-term we aim to build a worldwide network of low-cost sensors that makes the spectrum visible everywhere.
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