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Airbound

Autonomous VTOL drones for lightweight cargo

Communications Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Hoskote, Karnataka, India+1 moreMore locations: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In PersonIn-office role at the Hoskote headquarters, with work on alternate Saturdays.

About the job

Requirements
  • Five to eight years of experience in brand, communications, content, or editorial, ideally including building or shaping a recognized brand.
  • Experience building a consumer, direct-to-consumer, or challenger brand from an early stage.
  • Strong, fast writing ability.
  • Ability to own output with minimal hand-holding and remain effective when the brief is not fully formed.
  • A portfolio of writing and brand work; applications must include work samples.
Responsibilities
  • Write brand narratives, press materials, case studies, blog posts, social copy, website copy, internal announcements, and partner communications.
  • Define and protect Airbound’s brand voice and consistency across all channels.
  • Own Airbound’s LinkedIn and other social and owned channels.
  • Develop the employer brand by communicating the company’s work to prospective hires.
  • Support press strategy and manage the day-to-day relationship with the public relations agency.
  • Brief and manage photographers, videographers, and creative agencies, including ownership of the brief, relationship, and output quality.
  • Run logistics and execution for industry events, partner meetings, and internal milestones.
Desired Qualifications
  • Ability to understand engineers’ work and explain it compellingly to non-engineers.
  • Experience in a startup, hardware, or similarly ambitious environment where the candidate established standards rather than inherited them.

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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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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Business Wire
Aug 26th, 2026
Bengaluru-Based Airbound Secures $8.65M Seed Funding and Contract With Narayana Health to Enable One-Cent Drone Deliveries

Airbound, an autonomous delivery logistics firm specializing in blended-wing-body aircraft, today announced $8.65 million in seed funding and a pilot partner...

TechCrunch
Aug 25th, 2026
Airbound bags $37M to make drone delivery as cheap as trucking

Airbound, an Indian drone startup, has raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks, with participation from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed, and Humba Ventures. This brings the three-year-old company's total funding to nearly $50 million. The startup builds autonomous vertical-flight drones designed to weigh less than their cargo, making air transport competitive with road trucking. Its current drone weighs 3.3 pounds and carries 2.2 pounds of payload. Airbound has completed over 13,000 autonomous flights in southern India, including 1,000 with hospital network Narayana Health, transporting diagnostic samples. The startup has signed an agreement with Andhra Pradesh state government to create a three-city drone network targeting 10,000 daily flights. Despite its progress, the company remains pre-revenue, citing regulatory constraints around beyond visual line of sight operations as the main bottleneck to scaling.

DroneLife
Oct 14th, 2025
Airbound Secures $8.65M in Seed Funding and Medical Delivery Contract with Narayana Health

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

Barchart
Oct 14th, 2025
Airbound Secures $8.65M, Partners with Nara

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.

Primex Media Services Pvt. Ltd.
Mar 1st, 2025
Airbound Secures $1.7M for Drone Deliveries

Airbound, a drone delivery startup, has secured $1.7 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Gradcapital and angel investors. The funds will be used for R&D and to venture into medical deliveries, such as transporting blood samples. Airbound plans to launch its product in early 2025. The startup aims to reduce delivery costs significantly and sees potential in quick commerce, especially in tier 2 and 3 cities. Drone regulations in India have become more liberalized.