Akhil Jayaprakash

Today we are proud to bring our portfolio company @airbound_aero out of stealth and announce it to the world at large. We met Naman Pushp, the founder, when he was just 17yrs old but by then he had already dropped out of CMU and spent a year building a VTOL prototype that blew our minds during demos. Over the last 1.5yrs, Airbound has obsessed to build the world's most advanced and aerodynamic Blended Wing Body Tailsitter drones for consumer-grade deliveries. To do this, we've had to design, fabricate, mfg, and heat-treat an entirely new kind of carbon fibre chassis that is almost as light as an A4-sheet of paper, and has the world’s best strength-to-weight ratio - a 22g airbound drone panel can withstand a 70kg human. At Airbound, we are not just building the best drones in the world. We are building the world’s most efficient aircraft to change the last-mile delivery experience. It’s a long road — no pun intended — but we are really excited by how far Airbound has come in just a year. As we finally come out of stealth, it gives us great pleasure to also welcome our co-investors @gradcapital, @dshglobal, together with founders and operators at @PixxelSpace and @boomsupersonic, and grants from @peterthiel backed @1517fund, & Mercatus-Emergent Venture.