AquaAirX company profile
AquaAirX develops AI-enabled amphibious drones and mission systems for aerial and underwater operations. Its AVATAAR drone is built for surveillance, inspection, research and maritime security use cases where a single autonomous system needs to move between air and water domains.
Facts
- Segment: Maritime
- Country: India
- Founded: 2024
- Website: https://www.aquaairx.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Sources
Summary
AquaAirX develops AI-enabled amphibious drones and mission systems for aerial and underwater operations. Its AVATAAR drone is built for surveillance, inspection, research and maritime security use cases where a single autonomous system needs to move between air and water domains.
Market context
AquaAirX is relevant if its products connect aerial robotics to water, coastal, maritime or infrastructure workflows. Its value is in the specific operating niche, not in being another general drone company. Amphibious aerial-underwater platform (AVATAAR), inspection-class hovering AUV (NEXOR), and mission control across air, surface, and subsea.
- Capability: Amphibious transition and multi-domain maritime reconnaissance Hovering subsea inspection with adaptive navigation and sensor fusion Port, coastal, offshore, and infrastructure inspection workflows
- Strategic position: Differentiated stack at the intersection of amphibious robotics and subsea operations Relevant to defence, offshore, port security, and marine inspection beyond conventional drone vendors
Facts
- Website: https://www.aquaairx.com/
- HQ: Bengaluru, India
- Founded: 2024
- Segment: Maritime
- Known funding rounds: 1
Funding
- 2026-01-28 - Seed - $1M - AquaAirX raises ₹12.5 crore in seed funding - source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
Investors
- India Accelerator - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-28
- Prime Venture Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-28
- Rainmatter - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-28
- Wyser - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-28
Autonomous underwater inspection drone company
AquaAirX develops NEXOR, a hovering autonomous underwater vehicle for inspection, surveys and monitoring near subsea assets.
- Target environment: Subsea assets, ports, coastal infrastructure, underwater inspection routes and environmental monitoring sites.
- Deployment model: Autonomous underwater vehicle development and deployment for inspection, monitoring and maritime data collection.
- Customer context: Port operators, maritime agencies, infrastructure owners, environmental monitoring teams and underwater inspection users.
- Workflow context: Underwater inspection, high-fidelity imaging, survey, monitoring, hovering near assets and subsea data capture.
- Commercial maturity: Early-stage maritime robotics company with NEXOR positioned for underwater inspection, surveys and monitoring. Scaling depends on underwater reliability, navigation quality, battery endurance, imagi…
- Market position: Indian maritime robotics company focused on autonomous underwater inspection rather than surface-vessel autonomy.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on underwater reliability, current handling, imaging quality, navigation, battery endurance and customer validation.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes autonomous underwater vehicles, subsea inspection drones, port security and environmental monitoring robots.
- Source confidence: medium
Events
- 2026-03-05 - Product Launch - AquaAirX launches AVATAAR amphibious drone - The system was positioned for maritime surveillance, defense reconnaissance, offshore inspection, environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue…
- 2026-01-28 - Funding - AquaAirX raises ₹12.5 crore in seed funding - AquaAirX raised ₹12.5 crore in seed funding to strengthen its core technology stack.
- 2025-09-17 - Demonstration - AquaAirX showcases its amphibious drone at Israel Aerospace Industries' NeuSPHERE Demo Day - Israel Aerospace Industries said AquaAirX presented its amphibious drone at the first NeuSPHERE D…
Team
- Jitendra Saini - Co-founder and CTO
- Gouthami T S - Co-founder and CEO
Relationships
- Investor - Rainmatter is listed as an investor or backer of AquaAirX.
- Investor - Prime Venture Partners is listed as an investor or backer of AquaAirX.
- Investor - Wyser is listed as an investor or backer of AquaAirX.
- Investor - India Accelerator is listed as an investor or backer of AquaAirX.
Context tags
- Maritime surface autonomy builder - Peer Group
- Maritime ASV builder - Peer Group
- Autonomous surface navigation - Capability
- Maritime robotics operations - Workflow
- Marine surface operations - Customer Environment
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