Airbound
Autonomous VTOL drones for lightweight cargo
Content Creator
In-office role at the Hoskote headquarters; alternate Saturdays are required.
About the job
- 2–4 years of experience as a cinematographer and editor, with a strong portfolio, ideally in the branded content space.
- Proficiency with professional camera equipment, lensing, lighting, and sound management, from production through post-production.
- Expertise across the Adobe Creative Suite, including Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, and After Effects.
- A strong understanding of the complete filmmaking process, from pre-production to final edit.
- Comfort creating and optimizing content using artificial intelligence tools.
- Ability to work effectively with staff at all levels.
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative, follow through, and manage multiple assignments at once.
- A desire to learn new technologies, software, and techniques to stay current with industry trends.
- Shoot, edit, and produce engaging video content designed to maximize audience interaction and brand reach across channels.
- Establish and uphold a consistent visual identity aligned with Airbound's voice and tone across marketing channels.
- Stay current on digital landscape trends, visual trends, and formats.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external creators to brainstorm, conceptualize, and execute creative projects end to end.
- Back up high-resolution footage, images, and project files and keep them easily accessible.
- Manage, update, and maintain internal camera and lighting equipment.
- Experience with motion graphics and animation.
- Experience with aerial photography.
About the company
Airbound builds autonomous vertical-takeoff tail-sitter drones in Bengaluru that are designed to carry payloads heavier than their own weight, aiming for cost parity with trucking for select goods. The drones are designed and manufactured in-house and operate autonomously, including BVLOS flights to move items like diagnostic samples quickly. Its differentiator is its emphasis on payload-weight balance and largely in-house design and production, enabling fast, local air-cargo solutions. The company aims to scale production and deploy larger aircraft to expand autonomous air-cargo networks, shortening delivery times and reducing logistics costs.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$47.5M
Headquarters
Bengaluru, India
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 2026’s $37 million Series A from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Lightspeed funds scale-up.
- Narayana Health now routes samples through Airbound, cutting transit from hours to seven minutes.
- Andhra Pradesh’s three-city network targets 10,000 daily flights across retail, e-commerce, and healthcare.
What critics are saying
- Airbound remains pre-revenue; BVLOS approvals still block commercial scaling and cash generation.
- The Andhra Pradesh plan needs 250-1,000 aircraft, yet Airbound has one active drone route.
- If regulation stalls through 2027, Airbound becomes a capital-burning prototype shop, not a logistics business.
What makes Airbound unique
- Airbound’s tail-sitter drones weigh 3.3 pounds and carry 2.2 pounds, beating cargo ratios.
- The company manufactures in-house at a 43,000-square-foot Bengaluru facility, controlling cost and iteration.
- Naman Pushp’s team has logged 13,000 autonomous flights, validating a hard-to-copy flight stack.
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Airbound secures $8.65M in seed funding and medical delivery contract with Narayana Health. A bengaluru-based startup aims to make drone delivery costs negligible. Airbound, an autonomous delivery logistics company based in Bengaluru, India, has announced $8.65 million in seed funding and a pilot partnership with Narayana Health, one of India's largest hospital networks. The round was led by Lachy Groom, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, with participation from Humba Ventures and continued investment from Lightspeed. Senior leaders from Tesla, SpaceX, and Anduril also contributed, signaling confidence in Airbound's potential to scale hardware and autonomy systems. Blended-Wing-Body design for efficiency. Airbound's drones feature a blended-wing-body (BWB) with a vertical lift tail-sitter configuration - an unusual design that allows for vertical takeoff and landing while maintaining the aerodynamic advantages of fixed-wing flight. The company's proprietary carbon fiber manufacturing process supports rapid production and contributes to a high payload-to-aircraft mass ratio of 1kg-to-1.5kg. "The healthcare sector represents the perfect testing ground for our technology because it demands both reliability and efficiency," said Naman Pushp, Founder and CEO of Airbound. "Our partnership with Narayana Health validates that our approach can handle the most critical delivery requirements while demonstrating the cost advantages that will make our service accessible globally." Pilot program with Narayana Health. The partnership with Narayana Health will involve a three-month pilot program demonstrating Airbound's capability for medical logistics. Ten drone deliveries per day will transport blood samples, medical tests, and other supplies between hospital locations. The pilot will serve as a proof of concept for one of the most demanding use cases for drone delivery. "At Narayana Health, we are constantly exploring innovative solutions to enhance patient care and operational efficiency," said Dr. Devi Shetty, Founder and Chairman of Narayana Health. "Our partnership with Airbound allows us to pilot a promising technology that could significantly improve the speed and reliability of medical deliveries." Scaling toward global applications. Airbound's mission is to make delivery costs so low that distance becomes irrelevant in accessing goods and services. The company's aircraft design and manufacturing efficiency aim to reduce delivery expenses by up to twenty times compared to conventional logistics methods. "Airbound's approach to drone delivery addresses fundamental physics and economics problems that have limited the scalability of existing solutions," said Lachy Groom of Physical Intelligence. "Their design and manufacturing capabilities position them to achieve the cost efficiency needed to make drone delivery truly viable." The pilot program offers Airbound valuable operational data and regulatory validation as it prepares to expand beyond medical delivery. Following its latest funding round, Airbound has raised over $10 million to date and plans to scale manufacturing capacity and hiring in preparation for broader market adoption in 2026. For more information, visit www.airbound.co
Bengaluru-based Airbound, an autonomous delivery logistics firm, secured $8.65 million in seed funding led by Lachy Groom, with participation from Humba Ventures and Lightspeed. The company also announced a pilot partnership with Narayana Health to showcase its drone capabilities in medical logistics. Airbound's unique blended-wing-body aircraft aims to reduce delivery costs significantly. The funding will help scale manufacturing and expand operations beyond medical delivery.
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