Elroy Air
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$102.3M
9 rounds on record
Latest round
$6.6M
Venture round · Oct 2024 · 23 mo ago
Team
25
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +4% in a year
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$7.3M
5 grants · CORDIS
Backers
4
E14 Fund, Precursor Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
23 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
31/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
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
2025
Team of 25 was 24 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Jan 30, 2025
Won a grant $1.9M · CORDIS
Jan 14, 2025
New executive Elroy Air brings on Dr. Andrew Clare as CEO and secures additional funding to scale business · elroyair.com
Oct 31, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $6.6M · SEC Form D
Feb 15, 2024
Won a grant $235k · CORDIS
Mar 2, 2023
Won a grant $1.9M · CORDIS
Jul 7, 2022
Won a grant $1.7M · CORDIS
Jan 26, 2022
Launched Elroy Air unveils its autonomous vertical take off and landing cargo plane, the Chaparral · verge
Aug 4, 2021
Raised a round Series A $40M · TechCrunch
Mar 24, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $6.8M · SEC Form D
Aug 2, 2019
Won a grant $1.6M · CORDIS
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | Jan 2025 | $1.9M | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Oct 2024 | $6.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Feb 2024 | $235k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Jan 2024 | $48.9M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Mar 2023 | $1.9M | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Jul 2022 | $1.7M | — | CORDIS |
| Series A | Aug 2021 | $40M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Mar 2020 | $6.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | Aug 2019 | $1.6M | — | CORDIS |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Elroy Air, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
David MerrillExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Clinton CopeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Grant NewmanExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
E14 Fund 
Precursor Ventures 
Prosperity7VC 
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How Elroy Air hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Elroy Air scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 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
News
Elroy Air Announces Bristow's Reservation of 10 Additional Early Delivery Positions for Chaparral Aircraft
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Elroy Air Completes the First Uncrewed Autonomous Flights Under U.S. DOT and FAA's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP)
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Columbus Circle Capital Corp II Announces Elroy Air Was Awarded an Up to $46M Contract with U.S. Army
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbus Circle Capital Corp II (Nasdaq: CMII), a special purpose acquisition company led b...
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Elroy Air Awarded $46M U.S. Army Contract
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Elroy Air and Columbus Circle Capital Corp II Announce Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement on Form S-4 in Connection with Proposed Business Combination
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Elroy Air and Columbus Circle Capital Corp II Announce Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement on Form S-4 in Connection with Proposed Business Combination
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Elroy Air Equips Chaparral With Three Unattended Delivery Modes Under U.S. Army Contract
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Elroy Air To Go Public In $1 Billion SPAC Deal
Elroy Air announced that it has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II, a SPAC led by the management team of Inflection Point Asset Management and Cohen & Company.
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Elroy Air to Become Publicly Traded Company via Business Combination with Inflection Point-led SPAC
Elroy Air has entered into a definitive business combination agreement to become a publicly traded company. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, values Elroy Air at $800 million pre-money, and has over $165 million in commit
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Elroy Air over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Python
C++
C
MATLAB
Frameworks & libraries
Qt
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
AWS
Azure
FreeRTOS
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24 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$210k – $280k
Open positions
7
7
Jobs
Senior
85.7%
Architect
14.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 6 | $226k | $210k – $280k |
| Architect | 1 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Flight Sciences Engineer
$280k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Elroy Air
By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay
People
David Merrill
Executive Officer, Director
Clinton Cope
Executive Officer, Director
Grant Newman
Executive Officer
Darren Liccardo
Director
Mark Esper
Director
Raj Shah
Director
Mislav Tolusic
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data
Growth
Hiring Momentum
49/100
Stable
Open positions
7
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
103 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Leadership
50% ▼
Product
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Verification & Validation to stack
Oct 2026
Added Nastran to stack
Oct 2026
Added GD&T to stack
Oct 2026
Added Femap to stack
Oct 2026
Added CATIA to stack
Oct 2026
Added ANSYS to stack
Oct 2026
Added DO-178C to stack
Oct 2026
Added CMMC to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Byron
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Byron
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Byron
United States
Regional office
8 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 50-200 est. staff $236k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, QA
South San Francisco
United States
Regional office
415 East Grand Ave #201, South San Francisco, California, 94080, US
Jobs
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$160k – $260k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Nationals only · Full-Time · Byron
GCP
Azure
AWS
DNS
Cybersecurity
Okta
NIST 800-171
Least Privilege
Defense
CMMC
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$180k – $280k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Byron
Python
C
C++
GCC
C++
CMake
DevOps
RTOS
CI/CD
Git
GitHub
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
IoT
FreeRTOS
SpaceTech
DO-178C
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$210k – $230k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Byron
Python
MATLAB
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$120k – $222k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Byron
Python
MATLAB
SolidWorks
SpaceTech
CATIA
Nastran
Femap
ANSYS
GD&T
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$203k – $280k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Byron
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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Financials
Total raised
$109.7M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
9
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | 2025 | $1.9M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $6.6M | Details |
| Grant | 2024 | $235k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $48.9M | Details |
| Grant | 2023 | $1.9M | Details |
| Grant | 2022 | $1.7M | Details |
| Series A | 2021 | $40M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $6.8M | Details |
| Grant | 2019 | $1.6M | Details |