INVESTORS
Backing autonomous wildfire response.
THE THESIS
- 1Hardware with software: purpose-built aircraft, and the dispatch software that makes them deployable.
- 2Wildfire is the wedge of a much larger response and logistics vehicle market.
- 3Two aircraft, one autonomy stack: a platform roadmap.
- 4Engineered and built in Ontario, supported by McMaster University and Communitech.
- 5Impact-mandate fit: climate adaptation, community safety, air quality, aircrew safety (see our impact).
STAGE
Ryze 1, patent pending, sub-scale demonstrator flying November 2026 (TRL 5) · Ryze Fire, concept and sub-scale development (TRL 3–4) · dispatch software live.
The Ask
Pre-seed round open. It funds the Ryze 1 full-scale prototype and flight test, the Ryze Fire sub-scale demonstrator and the first agency pilots.
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