Skybourne Aero
About Skybourne

Engineered with the people who run toward the call.

Manifesto

Why Skybourne.

01
Public safety doesn't have a drone problem. It has an intelligence problem.
533,000 missing-person filings a year. 62 firefighter line-of-duty deaths in 2024. Most of those losses happen with a drone overhead, streaming raw video to a tablet nobody is staring at.
02
You don't fix this with a better camera. You fix it with a different aircraft.
The companies above us iterated on the consumer drone. The companies below us built tactical eyeballs. We started over. New airframe. New AI. New mission model. Because the old one was wrong.
03
Skybourne is an intelligence company that happens to fly.
The aircraft is the delivery mechanism. The product is the decision the operator makes ten seconds after Halo arrives. We optimize for that ten seconds.
04
On-board. End-to-end. American-built.
The compute is on the airframe. The decision is on the airframe. The supply chain is in the United States. Halo flies without internet, without a cell tower, and without a foreign motherboard.
05
In ten years, every fire truck and every patrol car in America will have an autonomous aircraft on board.
We're building the one America's first responders and warfighters deserve.
Halo flying through smoke and fire
Our vision

Where humans and machines save lives together.

How we build
First Halo prototype on the bench
Prototype 01
First Halo airframe on the bench.
Halo GCS live AI detection identifying personnel and vehicles
Vision Stack
On-board AI tagging personnel and vehicles, live.
Halo airframe alongside its ruggedized ground station kit
Field Kit
Drone, ruggedized GCS, controller. Field-deployable.
Skybourne Aero team
Co-founders

Two aerospace engineers. One mission.

We've shipped satellites, rovers, and mission-critical AI. The same obsession that put hardware in orbit now flies for the people running into the fire.

Naman Tibrewal
Naman Tibrewal
Cofounder · CEO
Sid Vaidyanathan
Sid Vaidyanathan
Cofounder · CTO

Build the future of public safety with us.

Operators, investors, partners. The door is open.

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