Three CEOs of Purdue Strategic Ventures portfolio companies shared their vision of a more connected future at the recent AIrTonomy Workshop, where the future of advancing safe autonomous aviation through AI is taking shape.
On September 12th, three innovative Purdue Strategic Ventures portfolio companies came together at the AIrTonomy Workshop, which aims to revolutionize how researchers and engineers build artificial intelligence and machine learning architectures for advanced aerial vehicles so that they can be trusted by society.
The panel, Advancing Aviation Innovation: What It Takes, introduced the CEOs from promising Purdue-connected startups advancing several next generation air mobility innovations to market and highlighted the importance of collaboration and partnerships.
Meet the three companies and learn more about supporting their vision for a more connected future:
Aerovy
Aerovy is on a mission to power the future of aviation, building software designed to make the growing complexity of electrification dead simple. Born out of over nine years of research conducted through partnerships with Purdue University and NASA Langley, Aerovy quickly positioned itself at the forefront of sustainable aviation technology.
The Purdue connection: Aerovy is a spin-off from research at Purdue in the Center for Integrated Systems in Aerospace. The company also won the Black and Gold Award in 2023.
Nick Gunady
Founder & CEO of Aerovy
GRYFN
GRYFN offers research-ready, high precision, multi-sensor UAV solutions that simultaneously acquire high resolution RGB, LiDAR and Hyperspectral data. The company’s software provides enterprise-ready datasets and analytics of multi-modal, multi-temporal data for research insights to drive actionable decisions across agriculture, environmental and other natural resource applications.
The Purdue connection: GRYFN is a Purdue University startup, with incubator funding from an AgCelerator award. The company also licenses Purdue IP.
We were asked as a Purdue startup operating in unmanned space, to offer insights into our experience, needs and benefits of the Purdue ecosystem. We focus on research markets, so while aeronautics, engineering and related fields fuel what we do… customers care about research and science, and those considerations deserve exploration.
Matt Bechdol
CEO of GRYFN
Pierce Aerospace
Pierce Aerospace provides drone remote identification services. The company is able to detect, track and identify drones and integrate that information into air traffic management and security technologies to safely secure low altitude airspace.
The Purdue connection: CEO Aaron Pierce attended IUPUI. The company is also testing a novel security solution FAA-mandated Remote ID for drone detection at the Purdue University Airport.
Purdue is the heartbeat of aerospace for Indiana and beyond. There’s no other place to hit the thrust we need as aerospace founders than here at Purdue.
Aaron Pierce
CEO and Cofounder of Pierce Aerospace
Media Contact: Polly Barks, phbarks@prf.org
