Vimaan turned warehouse drone lessons into forklift-mounted inventory vision

Vimaan emerged from stealth on January 26, 2022 with $25 million in Seed and Series A financing from NEA, Wing VC, and Neotribe Ventures. The Santa Clara company pitched computer vision for wall-to-wall warehouse inventory tracking across receiving, put-away, picking, storage, packing, and shipping. The important shift came a year later, when the company moved its inventory vision from flying drones to forklift-mounted scanning.

Vimaan was founded by CEO S.K. "KG" Ganapathi, who previously built a long career around robotics, supply-chain software, and warehouse automation. The company started with StorTRACK AIR drones, and PFS gave the platform an early named deployment surface in July 2022 by integrating Vimaan drones into a Memphis fulfillment operation for retail and consumer-goods brands. PFS said the system would target real-time inventory tracking against its warehouse management system.

Vimaan said its drone operations exposed warehouse hazards such as loose shrink wrap, tape, corrugate and paper that could interfere with rotors. StorTRACK, launched in 2023, mounts cameras and LEDs on existing material-handling equipment and combines machine learning with WMS integration. Source

StorTRACK mounts inventory cameras on forklifts already moving through a warehouse, removing the flight, battery and airspace-management requirements of an indoor drone.

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