Flyby Robotics
Flyby Robotics is a developer of American-made autonomous drones with no critical Chinese electronic components intended for machine learning on the edge capabilities. The company's platform simplifies the tedious processing of running ML-heavy applications on drones while providing a seamless field experience for drone operators to perform complex autonomous missions for drone delivery, critical infrastructure, renewable energy, and public safety applications.
Flyby Robotics
Flyby Robotics is a developer of American-made autonomous drones with no critical Chinese electronic components intended for machine learning on the edge capabilities. The company's platform simplifies the tedious processing of running ML-heavy applications on drones while providing a seamless field experience for drone operators to perform complex autonomous missions for drone delivery, critical infrastructure, renewable energy, and public safety applications.
TL;DR
Product: F-11 programmable UAV with onboard NVIDIA Jetson GPU for on-drone ML
Market Focus: Enterprise applications: inspection, delivery, public safety, infrastructure
Team size: 13 employees
Funding: At least $7.2M total across pre-seed rounds
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Onboard edge machine learning and autonomous mission execution for drone delivery, infrastructure inspection, renewable energy, and public safety.
Founded
2010
Industry
Drones / Robotics / Edge ML
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
$4,000,000
Participating investors reported include Weekend Fund, Ryan Hoover, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Anthemis, Cliff Sirlin and others.
Crunchbase lists a subsequent pre-seed round with Neo as lead; aggregate total funding reported as $7.2M.
Investor Signal
“Participation from named angel and seed investors (Weekend Fund, Ryan Hoover, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan) and venture firms (MaC Venture Capital, Neo) across rounds”