Natilus

Natilus develops blended-wing autonomous cargo aircraft intended to move freight with more usable volume and lower operating cost than conventional tube-and-wing designs.

Facts

Segment: Aerial Robotics And Drones
Country: United States
Founded: 2016
Website: https://natilus.co/

Funding

2026-02-10 - Series A - $28M - Natilus raises $28M Series A for full-scale KONA blended-wing aircraft - Natilus raised a $28 million Series A led by Draper Associates to complete manufacturing of its first full-scale KONA regional freighter prototype and continue HORIZON EVO development. - source: natilus.co

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Investors

Draper Associates - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
Flexport - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10
Liquid 2 VC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-10

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Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

Elroy Air - stack adjacency - capability: Autonomous Flight
Malloy Aeronautics - stack adjacency - capability: Autonomous Flight
Windracers - stack adjacency - stack: Cargo UAV Oem

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Team

Aleksey Matyushev - Co-Founder & CEO - Co-founded Natilus and leads its blended-wing cargo and passenger-aircraft programmes.

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