National Defense Magazine
25 July 2025
About Yrikka
We build the data, evaluation, and model-adaptation tools that help autonomy teams move beyond the conditions their AI was trained on.
Yrikka takes its name from the spirit of eureka: the moment an insight becomes useful. Our platforms bring that idea to vision AI and autonomous systems.
Yrikka launched in 2025 with contextual testing and red-teaming for visual AI. ORION builds on that work to cover the full cycle: data, testing and model adaptation.
Prepare and generate data, test vision models and VLMs, and automate fine-tuning.
Generate mission worlds and put your autonomy stack in them.
Programmatic access to Yrikka's data generation, testing and adaptation capabilities.
Drawing on experiences—from advancing healthcare AI innovations at the Mayo Clinic to spearheading space machine learning explorations at NASA—our co-founders transformed their expertise into a mission to redefine how AI is built and deployed in high-stakes environments. Our team includes researchers and engineers trained at Cornell.
Yrikka Inc. · New York and Iowa, USA
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Research & development
Our work spans defense research awards, university collaboration, technical experimentation, and pilot development.
Our work is funded through U.S. Army SBIR, U.S. Air Force SBIR/STTR, and USSOCOM programs.
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Army SBIR awards, including Phase II work.
View the award recordAir Force SBIR work and an Air Force STTR in partnership with Vanderbilt University.
View the award recordParticipation in a SOCOM technical experimentation event and a pilot research and development contract under the UxSAI program.
Work with Yrikka
Walk through your data, model, and operational challenge with the team building ORION and ATLAS.