Aviant
About
About Aviant
Aviant operates an end-to-end drone-transport service for local and medical logistics. Aviant reports a live service in Ski with more than 9,000 completed flights, 40,000 kilometres covered, 20-plus drones available and more than 30 paying contracts.
The operating model combines autonomous aircraft, dispatch, route management and delivery to move goods above road traffic. Aviant reports a longest flight of 124 kilometres and more than four tonnes of CO2 saved. Route, payload, supervision and regulatory conditions remain specific to each delivery network.
Team
- Bernhard Paus Græsdal - Founder and CTO - Græsdal leads technology for Aviant's long-range drone-delivery platform, including autonomous aircraft operations in harsh Nordic conditions.
- Herman Øie Kolden - Founder and Operations Manager - Kolden runs operational execution for Aviant drone routes carrying medical samples, groceries, food, and other logistics payloads.
- Lars Erik Matsson Fagernæs - Founder and CEO - Fagernæs leads Aviant's commercial drone-delivery strategy across healthcare logistics, food delivery, and long-range BVLOS operations in Scandinavia.
Timeline
Events
- 2023-06-06 - Product Launch - Aviant launches Kyte drone home delivery service
Aviant also received an additional ?1 million from Innovation Norway for prescription-medicine drone delivery. The company had completed more than 2,500 autonomous flights and 35,000 km before the launch. Kyte had already made deliveries covering more than 4,000 km with 24-minute average delivery time.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Innovation Norway
Public Funding Provider - Innovation Norway provided additional public funding for Aviant prescription-medicine drone delivery.
Context
Comparable profiles
- Skyports Drone Services
comparable profile - Drone Delivery Operator
Shared workflows
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workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Connect Robotics
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Haast Autonomous
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- JEDSY
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Wingcopter
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
- Sora-iina
workflow adjacency - Medical Supply Drone Delivery
Context tags
- Aerial delivery networks - Customer Environment - Aviant's robotics offering serves aerial delivery networks environments.
- Drone delivery operator - Peer Group - Aviant belongs in the drone delivery operator peer group based on its robotics segment and product or workflow focus.
- Medical supply drone delivery - Workflow - Aviant's robotics products or services are relevant to healthcare drone delivery operations workflows.