WHO WE ARE
Two Aircraft. One Reason to Build Them.
Ryze Mobility is a Hamilton, Ontario aerospace company building VTOL aircraft for the moments when ground transportation isn't fast enough — whether that's a commuter stuck in traffic or a wildfire outrunning the response to it.
OUR STORY
We started Ryze Mobility with a simple observation: the aircraft industry keeps building for people who already have runways. We're building for everyone else.
Founded in 2023 out of Hamilton, Ontario, Ryze Mobility develops dual-mode VTOL aircraft that operate on roads, fields, and lakeshores — no dedicated airstrip required. That single engineering capability opens two very different missions.
On one side, premium personal transport for commuters who lose hours a week to gridlock. On the other, rapid-deploy wildfire suppression for a crisis that is getting faster than the tools built to fight it. Different customers, different missions — same airframe philosophy, same engineering team, same standard for what “flight-ready” means.
WHAT WE'RE BUILDING
Two Vehicles, Built to the Same Standard
A Personal Aircraft for Road and Sky
A 2-seat dual-mode VTOL built for the commuter who refuses to lose more hours to traffic. Drive to clearance, transition, fly direct — no dedicated airstrip needed.
Explore Ryze 1 →A VTOL Water Bomber for the First 30 Minutes
An autonomous VTOL platform carrying 2,000L of water or fire retardant, deployable from any road, field, or lakeshore — built to hit a wildfire while it's still small enough to stop.
Explore Ryze Fire →WHY IT MATTERS
Two Problems, Both Getting Worse
Urban Mobility Has Outgrown the Ground
Traffic congestion costs the global economy over $1 trillion a year, and the average commuter loses more than 100 hours annually to gridlock. Roads aren't getting wider. Cities aren't getting smaller. The only direction left is up.
Lost to traffic congestion worldwide, every year
Wildfires Are Winning the Speed Race
Modern wildfires double in size faster than crews can be scrambled, and the aircraft built to fight them are decades old. The damage runs past $300 billion a year globally — and the gap is a response-speed problem, not an effort problem.
Annual global wildfire economic damage
THE TEAM
Built by engineers, founders, and researchers who've done it before.
Joshua Lombardo-Bottema
Founder & CEO
Two previous exits. Aerospace entrepreneurship.
Burak Korkut, PhD
Aerospace Systems
Systems architecture for dual-mode VTOL.
Prof. Moein Mehrtash, PhD
Advisor
Automotive systems and design. McMaster University.
Wenhao G.
Structural design and fabrication.
Zihao L.
Propulsion systems.
Hunter D.
Airframe and materials.
Bradley T.
Systems integration.
Ainsley B.
Design and testing.
Zicheng W.
Simulation and validation.
Team photos coming soon.
See the Mission in Motion
Follow the wildfire crisis Ryze Fire is being built to answer, or reach out directly if you want to be part of what we're building.