FlytBase

FlytBase Enterprise drone autonomy software platform FlytBase provides drone agnostic software solutions to automate and scale drone operations.

It is the world’s first Internet of Drones Platform (IoD), that allows easy deployment of intelligent drone fleets, connected with cloud-based business applications. The commercial drone industry is moving towards fully autonomous BVLOS operations. These drone operations cannot be scaled without automation and connectivity. FlytBase leverages its IoD Platform to provide drone agnostic software sol

utions for Remote Drone Operations, Emergency Response, Automated Inspections, Security & Surveillance, Warehouse Management, Delivery, etc., integrated with automated Drone-in-a-box solutions. FlytBase won the Global NTT Data Innovation Contest 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. FlytBase graduated from Cisco Launch Pad Accelerator Program in 2017 and was awarded the TiE50 Top-Startup award by TiE Silicon Valley.

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FlytBase has been awarded with several recognitions for its innovation:
== Won TiE50 award at TiEcon Silicon Valley 2017
== "Best Startup"​ at TiEcon Pune 2017
== Startup of the Year - Technology, 2016; awarded by the Startup Leadership Program
== Selected among top 45 product startups at InTech50, 2016
== Selected for TiE Nurture program, 2016
== Selected among 11 startups to participate in Microsoft Ventures backed GenNext Accelerator Program, 2016
== Winner at TiECon Pune 2015
== Winner at PuneConnect 2015

Website
http://flytbase.com
Company size
11-50 employees
47 on LinkedIn
Includes members with current employer listed as FlytBase, including part-time roles. Headquarters
San Jose, California
Founded
2017
Specialties
Drone Software, Drone Solutions, Cloud Connectivity, Onboard Intelligence, Payload Integration, Collision Avoidance, Precision Landing, Object Recognition, Drone AI Platform, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Fleet Management, Application Dashboards, Enterprise Drone Solution, Drone Tower Inspection, Drone Delivery, Autonomous Drone Docking Stations, Drone Pipeline Inspection, Construction, Emergency Response, Drone Survey, Mining, Security, Developer Tools, and Business Workflow Integration

Every enterprise drone program eventually hits the same wall: the operating system that takes it from one site to ten ca...
06/23/2026

Every enterprise drone program eventually hits the same wall: the operating system that takes it from one site to ten cannot take it from ten to fifty. The drones get added. The workflows do not always keep up.

FlytBase Flex is the next layer of the FlytBase stack developed to resolve this. Built for the teams running mission-critical drone programs at scale: streamlining operations, simplifying workflows, and scaling the fleet without scaling the team running it.

Going live on June 30.

Ready to flex your drone ops?
Register here:https://flytbase.com/flytlaunch/flex

Enterprise oil and gas drone programs run ten to twenty flights per site per month. An autonomous program at scale runs ...
06/23/2026

Enterprise oil and gas drone programs run ten to twenty flights per site per month. An autonomous program at scale runs closer to a thousand.

Bridging those two numbers was what Nitin Gupta, CEO and Founder of FlytBase, walked through at the EDR Summit. Joining him was Ross Doak, Offshore Robotics Program Manager at Shell.

The bottlenecks are familiar. Cost per flight caps the volume. Data has no system of record. Automated analysis works for a handful of flights and does not survive a program.

Ross brought the operator's view. Shell is deploying drone-in-a-box offshore as infrastructure, the way control systems get deployed. Automated rounds. Fewer crews on helicopters. The drone is now a layer of the site.

The operating model that closes the gap looks different. One operator runs many docks. Every capture is tied to its asset. AI reads inspection history and SOPs before flagging. The system assigns the work it finds.

That is the operating model for energy operations in the age of AI.

The conversation continues today at 4:20 PM, when Dhiraj Dhule, Director of Products at FlytBase, takes the session on Digital Twins, Drone Docks, Bots and AI for Major Facilities.

Find us at Booth 407 in between.



Nitin Gupta Ross Doak Shell Dhiraj Dhule

Live from Day 1 of EDR Summit 2026 in Houston.Most drone programs in oil and gas, utility, and solar are still built aro...
06/22/2026

Live from Day 1 of EDR Summit 2026 in Houston.

Most drone programs in oil and gas, utility, and solar are still built around the flight, not the asset. Inspections live in PDFs, maintenance lives in a CMMS, and compliance lives in audit folders. The asset itself is never the source of truth.

That gap is exactly what we are showing at Booth 407 this time. The FlytBase ecosystem unifies autonomous docks, Verkos AI agents specialized per asset class, and asset-linked compliance records into one platform that runs across oil and gas, utility, and solar operations. Every flight tied to the asset. Every finding scored, evidenced, and routed to the right team.

The conversation on stage today morning ran on the same thread. Nitin Gupta, CEO and Founder of FlytBase, was joined by Ross Doak, Offshore Robotics Program Manager at Shell, for the session on Drone for Energy Operations in the Age of AI. It continues tomorrow at 4:20 PM when Dhiraj Dhule, Director of Products at FlytBase, joins the panel on Digital Twins, Drone Docks, Bots and AI.

Come see it live.

Booth 407 · June 22-24 · Houston, Texas

Inspection in oil and gas no longer happens when a crew arrives. It happens every day, on every asset, without anyone le...
06/22/2026

Inspection in oil and gas no longer happens when a crew arrives. It happens every day, on every asset, without anyone leaving the operations center.

The Oil & Gas Industrial Guide walks through how. Docks running daily across upstream wellpads, midstream pipeline corridors, and downstream refineries. AI agents specialized per asset class. Compliance records that generate themselves after every mission, asset-linked and ready for EPA, DOT, and API.

Built around the asset, not the flight.

Get the full guide: https://flytbase.com/playbooks/industry-guide-oil-and-gas

We are bringing this, and a lot more around oil and gas operations to EDR Summit 2026 in Houston. Find us at Booth 407.

When the conversation about scaling autonomous drone operations in oil and gas moves from theory to production, the room...
06/20/2026

When the conversation about scaling autonomous drone operations in oil and gas moves from theory to production, the room has to include the operators.

At EDR Summit 2026, Nitin Gupta will be joined on stage by Ross Doak, Offshore Robotics Program Manager at Shell, for the session on Drone for Energy Operations in the Age of AI: A New Operating Model.

Together they walk through what the operating model actually looks like at production volume: docks as infrastructure, AI on the data layer, remote operations centers running multi-site fleets, and the economics that hold up at scale. Shell operates one of the largest offshore footprints in oil and gas. The conditions are 24/7, remote, weather-exposed, and unforgiving, where the cost of inspection delays, missed anomalies, or human entry into confined spaces is measured in lives and dollars, not hours.

Where the operating model meets the operating reality.

Speaker Session | June 22, 10:00 to 10:30 AM | Houston, Texas

Find us at Booth 407.

EDR Summit | 22 to 24 June 2026

The FlytBase stack is expanding.T-minus 11. June 30th.Stay tuned.
06/19/2026

The FlytBase stack is expanding.

T-minus 11.
June 30th.

Stay tuned.

06/18/2026

The operator's attention does not multiply with the fleet.

At ten or twenty active drones, every second on the dashboard pulls a second from the field, until the operator stops watching the field and starts managing the interface.

FlytBase one-to-many operations are built around that limit. One operator, one screen, the entire fleet.

A video wall keeps a live tile for every drone, with status, altitude, and active mission updating in real time. Fleet Control issues a unified command across one or many drones at once. Direct Launch, Go-to-Location, and alarm response live in the same table and open as overlays, so the rest of the fleet stays visible. Auto-Visibility moves drones in and out of the dashboard as they take off and land. Pin Rotation cycles operator focus across every active drone on a set interval. Performance Mode keeps every feed live without browser overload.

Cognitive load does not scale with fleet size when the interface is built for the operator, not the drone.

FlytBase one-to-many operations.

Scalable AI and data across drone and robotics programs used to be a story told one customer at a time. At EDR 2025 in H...
06/17/2026

Scalable AI and data across drone and robotics programs used to be a story told one customer at a time. At EDR 2025 in Houston, Dhiraj Dhule, Director of Products at FlytBase, sat on the panel that pulled those individual stories together.

A year on, the picture has filled in. Those case studies no longer stand alone. They have stitched themselves into one operating system that holds together across an enterprise energy site, with docks running daily on the ground, bots reaching where aerial cannot, AI agents that learn each asset class instead of detecting everything generically, and digital twins refreshed by every flight, every reading, every sensor stream. The compliance trail writes itself, and decisions move from staring at dashboards to acting on triggers.

Dhiraj is on the panel at EDR 2026 again this year, working through what running all four layers together actually looks like at production scale. The session is titled Digital Twins, Drone Docks, Bots and AI.

Panel Discussion | June 23, 04:00 to 04:45 PM | Houston, Texas

Find us at Booth 407.

EDR Summit | 22 to 24 June 2026

Register here: https://flytbase.com/event/energy-and-drone-summit-2026

A year ago at EDR 2025 in Houston, Nitin Gupta, CEO and Founder of FlytBase, made the case that Physical AI, drones, and...
06/16/2026

A year ago at EDR 2025 in Houston, Nitin Gupta, CEO and Founder of FlytBase, made the case that Physical AI, drones, and robots were going to take over energy operations.

Twelve months later, that future is no longer a thesis. It is the operating model enterprise energy programs are being built on. Docks have become infrastructure rather than pilots, AI on the data layer is turning every flight into operational intelligence, and remote operations centers are running multi-site fleets across regulatory regimes. The economics finally make sense at gigawatt-scale solar, multi-site refining, and continuous pipeline monitoring.

Nitin's session at EDR 2026, Drone for Energy Operations in the Age of AI: A New Operating Model, covers what that operating model looks like at production scale, and where it goes next.

If you were in the room last year, this is the follow-up. If you missed it, this year's session is a good place to pick it up.

Speaker Session | June 22, 10:00 to 10:30 AM | Houston, Texas

Find us at Booth 407.

EDR Summit | 22 to 24 June 2026

Watch last year's session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rolAoc41oIk

The conversation in energy operations has moved past any single technology. The interesting question now is what happens...
06/12/2026

The conversation in energy operations has moved past any single technology. The interesting question now is what happens when they all run together.

On Day 2 of EDR Summit 2026, Dhiraj Dhule, Director of Products at FlytBase, joins the panel working through exactly that.

Energy sites already produce more operational data than any human team can synthesize. The shift is in how that data becomes intelligence. A continuously updated digital twin of every asset on every site. Docks flying daily, bots reaching what no aerial platform can, AI turning every frame into actionable signal the moment it lands. A leak detected before the patrol catches it. A thermal anomaly flagged at 99% confidence before it spreads. A degradation trend that surfaces a maintenance work order on its own.

That is the operating picture energy operators are building toward. Continuous instead of scheduled. Cross-source instead of siloed. Predictive instead of reactive.

The panel digs into what it actually takes to get there. How drone docks and ground bots reconcile into one truth. Where AI takes work off the team's plate and where new decision points emerge. What changes when the digital twin becomes the source of operational decisions, not just a visualization.

Panel Discussion | June 23, 04:00 to 04:45 PM | Houston, Texas

If you are at EDR, find us at Booth 407.

EDR Summit | 22 to 24 June 2026

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