Elistair
About
About Elistair
Elistair develops tethered drone systems for persistent surveillance, communications and incident response. Its Orion aircraft and Safe-T power stations keep a UAV aloft through a cable carrying electricity and data, enabling extended overwatch above defence positions, borders, public events and emergency scenes.
Electro-optical payloads provide continuous observation, while communications packages can create elevated radio or cellular relays. Automated flight control maintains position and manages tether tension from a compact ground station, and some configurations integrate into vehicles for rapid deployment. Elistair supplies complete systems, operator training and support to military, security and public-safety organisations worldwide.
Operations
Orders & commitments
- Order / commitment
2025-02-12 - Elistair received a EUR 3 million contract to supply small tethered UAS to an allied military force for persistent surveillance and reconnaissance. - contract value
Source
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Rheinmetall
Outbound - Manufacturing - Rheinmetall integrates Elistair KHRONOS tethered drones with Mission Master UGVs for mobile ISR
Source
Funding
- 2021-03-30 - Series B - $5.8M - Elistair raises EUR 5M Series B for tethered drone systems
Elistair raised EUR 5 million in Series B funding to expand tethered drone systems internationally. - source: elistair.com
- 2018-01-17 - Funding round - $2.3M - Elistair raises EUR 2M for tethered drone growth
Elistair raised EUR 2 million to accelerate international growth for its tethered drone systems. - source: elistair.com
Investors
- Starquest Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2018-01-17 - latest 2021-03-30
- Omnes - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-03-30
Team
- Guilhem de Marliave - Co-founder - Co-founder of Elistair tethered-drone business and persistent-surveillance product direction.
- Timothée Penet - Co-founder & CTO - Technical leader for Elistair tethered-drone systems.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-07-21 - Partnership - Elistair and Exail productise Khronos integration with DriX USV
The productised integration follows earlier sea trials and is not presented as the first technical demonstration. The system supports automatic deployment, vessel-following operation, encrypted video and remote shore control. Elistair states tethered airborne endurance of up to 24 hours.
Source - 2026-04-30 - Capability - Elistair Khronos tethered DroneBox participates in ORION 2026 military exercise
Elistair's Khronos automated tethered DroneBox participated in ORION 2026, France's large joint military exercise. The system was used in a military exercise context for persistent tethered-UAS operations. The exercise demonstrated Khronos in defense surveillance and security workflows.
Source - 2021-03-30 - Funding - Elistair raises EUR 5M Series B for tethered drone systems
Omnes and Starquest Capital backed the round. At the time, Elistair systems had been deployed by military and national security agencies in more than 65 countries. The capital supports unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-drone operations as Elistair moves toward broader commercial use.
Source - 2018-01-17 - Funding - Elistair raises EUR 2M for tethered drone growth
Starquest Capital participated in the financing with existing investors. The funding supported tethered drone systems for surveillance, security and industrial operations. The capital supports unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-drone operations as Elistair moves toward broader commercial use.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Exail
Integrated Platform Partner - Elistair and Exail are productising Khronos integration with DriX.
- Allied military force
Tethered UAS Customer - Elistair received a EUR 3 million contract to supply small tethered UAS to an allied military force.
Context
Comparable profiles
- ProximaVision Aerospace
stack adjacency - Tethered Drone Systems
- Taekyung Electronics
stack adjacency - Tethered Drone Systems
- Beijing Zhuoyi Intelligent
stack adjacency - Tethered Drone Systems
- Fotokite
stack adjacency - Tethered Drone Systems
- Shijiazhuang Yunding Technology
stack adjacency - Tethered Drone Systems
Shared workflows
- RT LTA Systems
workflow adjacency - Persistent Surveillance
- Buntar Aerospace
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- Shield AI
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- AeroVironment
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- Baykar
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- Kronshtadt
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- Orbotix Industries
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- Skyfront
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
- Quadsat
workflow adjacency - Tactical Isr
Context tags
- Tethered Drone Systems - Stack Layer - Consolidated from a retired duplicate tethered-aircraft context tag.
- Tactical ISR - Workflow
- Persistent Surveillance - Workflow
- Maritime Security - Customer Environment
- Perimeter Security - Customer Environment
- Automated DroneBox - Stack Layer
- Public safety operations - Customer Environment
- Defence customers - Customer Environment
- Persistent tethered surveillance - Workflow
- Tethered drone ISR systems - Peer Group
Commercial
- Elistair to supply 13 tethered drones for Hellenic Fire Service operations
2025-05-13 · Order / contract · Elistair announced a contract to supply 13 tethered surveillance drones to Greek company Terra Spatium.
- Elistair awarded EUR 3M contract for small tethered UAS by allied military force
2025-02-12 · Order / contract
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