Drone Delivery Firm Flytrex Welcomes Thein as COO
December 16, 2020
Source: Flytrex
A new COO is flying into the friendly corporate skies of drone delivery company Flytrex.
Last week, the Israeli company announced the hiring of Ben Thein as Chief Operating Officer. Thein will lead global operations and focus on building American partnerships to expand drone delivery in the e-commerce and food sectors.
With 15 years of managerial, operational and technical experience, Thein most recently worked as the VP of Operations at Mindspace. He also worked at SodaStream as head of global business development, creating partnerships with prominent brands such as PepsiCo, Samsung and KitchenAid.
Iris Automation Closes $13 Million in Series B Venture Capital Financing
Computer vision-based technology innovator to advance unmanned air safety through expanded use cases and market channels
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/
Iris Automation has closed a successful round of $13 million in Series B venture capital funding. Founded in 2015, Iris Automation is a computer vision technology company pioneering the development of advanced detection systems used to help provide Detect-and-Avoid (DAA) capabilities that enable safe commercial drone operations including scalable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) missions.
Quote from Jon Damush, CEO of Iris Automation We are incredibly excited about this show of support from our current and new investors, particularly during this unprecedented global pandemic. We have always known that our approach to the problem solves a critical missing link for unpiloted systems, and plan to deploy t
Three years after launching his drone startup, Flytrex, Yariv Bash made a pivot. What started in 2013 as a supplier for drone manufacturers and hobbyists became a delivery service provider. “We realized that the killer application for drones was going to be backyard delivery,” Bash says. Soon after, the Israel-based company became one of the first commercial drone operators, delivering groceries and other goods in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Since then it’s added small-scale test routes in North Dakota and North Carolina. In September, Walmart Inc. announced it would begin using Flytrex drones to make deliveries as part of a pilot program in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A few months earlier, Flytrex and partner Causey Aviation, a private jet charter company, had filed paperwork with the Federal Aviation Administration to be recognized as an unmanned air carrier. If the approval comes through Bash expects it sometime in the next couple of months Flytrex will join Alphab