We are building the aerial internet
Investor Deck · Confidential · 2026
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The Problem

THE WORLD RUNS ON
INFRASTRUCTURE
NOBODY IS WATCHING

Defense
A $500 FPV drone defeats a $3M Patriot missile. Swarms of hundreds arrive simultaneously. No system can handle them.
Energy & Infrastructure
500,000 miles of US oil pipeline. Bridges, power lines, cell towers. Inspected manually, infrequently, expensively.
Security & Monitoring
Borders, perimeters, construction sites, billboards. Every inspection requires a human pilot. One drone. One person. Not scalable.
Emergency Response
Wildfires, floods, collapsed buildings. By the time a human-piloted drone maps the scene, the window to save lives has closed.
Architecture & Construction
Structural defects in buildings, bridges, and towers go undetected for years. Manual inspection is dangerous, slow, and rare.
The Root Cause
No autonomous aerial intelligence layer exists over the physical world. Every drone flying today has a human behind it.

The internet connected information. Nothing has connected the physical world at scale. That layer doesn't exist yet.

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The Gap

EVERY INCUMBENT
BUILT RADAR FIRST.
THAT'S THE MISTAKE.

Radar is expensive, jammable, and was designed for missiles — not swarms. Every major player is now retrofitting cameras onto radar systems as an afterthought. Nobody has built vision-first from the ground up.

Until now.

C-UAS Market 2030 $20B
Annual growth rate 25%
Cost asymmetry 6000×
Vision-primary interceptors on market 0
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The Solution
Formyx Technologies

VISION
FIRST.
ALWAYS.

The same paradigm shift Tesla made over LiDAR —
applied to autonomous drone intercept.

01
Vision-Primary Detection
YOLOv8 running on NVIDIA Jetson Orin. No radar cue needed. Camera sees, classifies, and locks.
02
Autonomous Intercept
DeepSORT tracking feeds MAVLink flight controller. Interceptor navigates to target autonomously.
03
Jam-Resistant
No RF signal to defeat. Vision systems don't care about electronic warfare. It sees. It acts.
04
Full Stack Owned
Hardware, software, and C2 — one integrated product. No vendor risk. One system.
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Project Kestrel

PROJECT KESTREL

225mm · 6S · Vision-Primary Autonomous Interceptor · MVP Build Cost ~$1,397

225mm
Wheelbase
Jetson
Edge AI Compute
YOLOv8
Vision Model
6S
Power System
~$1.4K
MVP Build Cost
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Market

DEFENSE IS THE
ENTRY POINT.
NOT THE CEILING.

The counter-drone market alone is $20B by 2030 growing at 25% annually. But the platform we're building powers every domain where distributed aerial intelligence creates value.

$20B
C-UAS market by 2030
25%
Annual market growth rate
41%
Increase in defense tech VC firms last year
$600M
a16z American Dynamism fund size
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Platform Vision

ONE STACK.
EVERY DOMAIN.

The same vision autonomy stack that intercepts a drone can navigate a lawnmower, inspect a pipeline, or patrol a warehouse. Defense funds the R&D. The platform scales to everything that moves.

Defense & Infrastructure
01
Y
Counter-Swarm Defense
First market. Most urgent. Most funded.
02
Y
Emergency Response
Autonomous swarms mapping disaster zones.
03
Y
Industrial Inspection
Pipelines, power lines, bridges at scale.
04
Y
Smart Cities
Distributed aerial intelligence networks.
05
Y
GPS-Denied Exploration
Mines, caves, collapsed structures.
The same vision stack. Different form factor.
Consumer & Industrial Robotics
06
Y
Autonomous Lawnmowers
Vision-primary navigation. No boundary wires. No GPS dependency.
07
Y
Warehouse Robotics
Autonomous floor robots that see and navigate like humans.
08
Y
Agricultural Drones
Crop inspection and precision spraying at swarm scale.
09
Y
Security Patrol Robots
Autonomous campus and perimeter patrol. No human pilot needed.
10
Y
Consumer Autonomy
Tesla did it for cars. We do it for everything else.
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THE ASK

Raising $200K pre-seed
40%
Kestrel components, build, and flight testing
35%
CTO onboarding and first 90 days of technical team
25%
SBIR application, legal, IP filings, and operations
formyx.co · zeeshaan@formyx.co · Austin & Dallas, TX
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