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Connections
News
Technologies
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Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$45.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$37M
Series A · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
24
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
IIMA Ventures, Lightspeed India
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
47/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 25 Raised a round Series A $37M · TechCrunch Oct 14, 2025 Raised a round Seed $8.7M · businesswire
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Aug 2026 $37M — TechCrunch
Seed Oct 2025 $8.7M — businesswire
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How Airbound hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Airbound scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Airbound is building the world’s most efficient, zero infrastructure delivery crafts. Engineered, manufactured, and flown in India.

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors3
34 portfolio companies: Innovaccer, k-ID, House of X and 31 more
IIMA VenturesVia a fund
260 portfolio companies: Thrillophilia, Xaults, Zeny and 257 more
634 portfolio companies

News

News Yahoo News 20 days ago
India's Airbound Drones Take Off Like Rockets and Fly Like Planes
This Indian drone takes off like a rocket and flies like a plane. And its maker wants it to deliver as cheaply as a truck.It's the TRT, built by Bengaluru startup Airbound.It's a tail-sitter...
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News Pulse 2.0 2 months ago
Airbound Raises $37 Million Series A Led By Greenoaks As Autonomous Flights Top 13,000 And Andhra Pradesh Targets 10,000 Daily
Airbound has raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Greenoaks to expand its autonomous aircraft platform and pursue a vision of making aerial transportation cheaper than conventional ground-based logistics. DoorDash, Lightspeed India, Lachy Groom a
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News FortuneIndia 2 months ago
Airbound raises $37 million Series A to scale drone delivery and build larger aircraft
Bengaluru-based aerospace startup Airbound has raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Greenoaks to scale autonomous drone delivery across India and develop larger aircraft. Discover how its blended-wing-body designs, healthcare partnerships and And
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News bsindia 2 months ago
Aerospace startup Airbound raises $37 mn to expand autonomous aircraft biz
The Bengaluru aerospace startup will use the Series A capital to scale engineering and manufacturing, while its Andhra Pradesh network is planned to handle up to 10,000 daily flights
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News mint 2 months ago
Airbound raises $37 million in Series A round from Greenoaks Company Business News
The Bengaluru startup will use the funding to expand engineering, commercial manufacturing and go-to-market efforts as it builds drone delivery networks in India.
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News YahooFinance 2 months ago
Airbound Scales New Class of Aircraft to Change the Economics of Flight
$37 million Series A led by Greenoaks to accelerate the commercial expansion of Airbound
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News TechCrunch 2 months ago
India's Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Valley investor Lachy Groom.
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Airbound: $8.65 Million Seed Funding Raised For Autonomous Delivery Logistics Platform
Airbound, an autonomous delivery logistics company developing blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft for efficient cargo transport, has raised $8.65 million in seed funding and announced a pilot partnership with Narayana Health. The round was led by Lachy Groom
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News YahooFinance 1 year ago
India's Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries
Lachy Groom backs Airbound in $8.65M seed round as it launches pilot in Bengaluru.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Airbound over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
58
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Python
Embedded C
C++
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
ArduPilot
Nest.JS
OpenCV
React.js
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
InfluxDB
TimescaleDB
Cloud & platforms
Linux
AWS
RTOS
Windows
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Full Airbound tech stack 58 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$4.8k
Typical range
$2.8k – $11k
Open positions
5
1 Jobs
Junior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $11k $11k
Highest paying role Facility & Admin Associate $11k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Airbound By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
24
7 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
31 days
faster than 41% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
33% ▼
Hardware
14% ▲
HR
14% ▲
Operations
10%
Backend
5% ▼
Support
5% ▼
Actively hiring for HR (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Tableau to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Oct 2026
Added MIL-STD-461 to stack Oct 2026
Added FMEA to stack Oct 2026
Added DO-254 to stack Oct 2026
Added DO-160 to stack Oct 2026
Added Battery Management Systems to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Oct 2026
Added Notion to stack Oct 2026
Added Rollup to stack Oct 2026
Added Adobe After Effects to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Bengaluru
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Daly City United States
HQ
Bengaluru India
Plant / site
22 open roles 21 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 50-200 est. staff $6k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, HR
seen since May 2026 job postings
Guntur India
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff $4k Avg Salary
hires for Administrative, Industrial Engineering
seen since Apr 2026 job postings

Jobs

$6.3k – $11k per year · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Bengaluru
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≈ $17k – $38k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bengaluru
Python
C
C++
Embedded C
AI/ML
OpenCV
Computer Vision
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
RTOS
Git
Linux
Robotics
ROS2
ArduPilot
MAVLink
Zenoh
QGroundControl
Mission Planner
MAVProxy
Sensor Fusion
Path Planning
Obstacle Avoidance
Autonomous Navigation
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≈ $14k – $32k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bengaluru
Python
C
Embedded C
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Apply
≈ $6.5k – $16k per year (Estimated) · In office · Internship · Bengaluru
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In office · Full-Time · Bengaluru
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In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bengaluru
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In office · Full-Time · Bengaluru
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In office · Full-Time · Bengaluru
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≈ $17k – $46k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bengaluru
Git
Linux
Chips/EDA
Altium Designer
KiCad
LTspice
Cadence Allegro
SpaceTech
DO-254
DO-160
FMEA
Energy
Battery Management Systems
Defense
MIL-STD-461
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≈ $23k – $57k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Bengaluru
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
C++
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
RabbitMQ
InfluxDB
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Time Series
Frontend
D3.js
Chart.js
React.js
DevOps
WebSockets
Git
TCP/IP
Robotics
ArduPilot
MAVLink
Management
Agile
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In office · Full-Time · Bengaluru
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≈ $11k – $28k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bengaluru
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
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Financials

Total raised
$45.7M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2026 $37M Details
Seed 2025 $8.7M Details