Our Portfolio

Meet the companies changing how innovation is done in aerospace and defence.

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Skyways
Founder Charles Acknin, Tom Martin
Category Aviation
Location Austin, TX
Product

Skyways is building autonomous cargo drones to make deliveries in remote areas at one tenth the cost of traditional manned helicopters. Skyways is targeting the defense & energy markets to both sell vehicles and operate as a transportation-as-a-service provider.

Clarvoyant
Founder Matthew Clausen, Charles Goddard
Category Enabling technologies
Location Pasadena, CA
Product

Clarvoyant develops a computer model visualization platform based on holographic reality augmentation. The system can be used for any kind of computer-aided engineering model, allowing full-size holographic model replication with detailed technical insights. Clarvoyant can also be used to implement VR on websites for e-commerce applications.

Natilus
Founder Aleksey Matyushev, Anatoly Starikov, LZ Zhang
Category
Location Richmond, CA
Product

Natilus is building and operating an amphibious freight drone capable of transporting goods worldwide at 50% the cost of traditional air-shipping methods. The Natilus amphibious drone has a blended wing body capable of carrying up to 100 tons and operates routes up to 30 hours at just below transonic speeds. Natilus is fully autonomous and doesn’t require a cockpit or heavy and complex life control systems such as pressurization and emergency escape routes. These simplifications reduce estimated manufacturing costs from $250MM for a Boeing 777 down to $50MM for a Natilus.

Corenova
Founder Peter Lee
Category Enabling technologies
Location Santa Monica, CA
Product

Corenova develops an autonomous operation framework aiming to eliminate the need for human management of fleets of any type of unmanned vehicles for critical operations.

The framework enables users to simply mark the location, urgency, and type of operation (e.g. infrared photo, 3D visual scan, etc). The fleet then automatically assesses which vehicles are equipped to perform the action by checking available battery or range. Corenova instantly and constantly optimizes the mission plan for all vehicles in the fleet.

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