// PortfolioData.jsx, canonical portfolio dataset + helpers
// Sourced from axv.vc + AXV Portfolio Companies PDF (public material).
// Where specific details are not publicly documented, sections are omitted rather than fabricated.

const PORTFOLIO_DATA = [
  {
    slug: "privateer-space",
    co: "Privateer Space",
    initials: "PS",
    sector: "Space · Infrastructure",
    sectorKey: "space",
    stage: "Series A",
    vehicle: "AXV SPV I, LLC",
    hq: "Kailua-Kona, HI",
    founded: "2021",
    website: "privateer.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Alex Fielding", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Steve Wozniak", role: "Co-founder" },
      { name: "Dr. Moriba Jah", role: "Co-founder, Chief Scientist" },
    ],
    short: "Knowledge graph for what's happening in orbit: space situational awareness at scale.",
    building: [
      "Privateer is building the data infrastructure for the space economy, a proprietary knowledge graph that ingests, reconciles, and continuously updates information about objects in orbit.",
      "The platform improves space situational awareness and safety for satellite operators, governments, and emerging orbital industries that depend on predictable, well-mapped space.",
      "As the space economy scales, Privateer's data layer becomes the connective tissue between operators, regulators, and the next generation of in-orbit services.",
    ],
    thesis: "Privateer sits at an inflection point in space infrastructure. As LEO becomes the most contested and commercially active domain in history, the market needs a neutral, authoritative layer for orbital data. The founding team of Wozniak, Fielding, and Jah brings a combination of engineering scale, platform intuition, and space-science authority that is unusually hard to replicate.",
    axv_role: [
      "Led the Series A (2024) via SPV; participated in the Seed (2023)",
      "Supported Privateer's acquisition of Orbital Insight, a strategic consolidation in space-tech",
      "Board seat; active on commercial and government go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Acquired Orbital Insight (2024), consolidating geospatial and orbital data capabilities",
      "Engagements across commercial satellite operators and government customers",
      "Multiple high-profile technical and scientific advisors",
    ],
    related: ["starfish-space", "outpost-space", "seasats"],
  },
  {
    slug: "jetzero",
    co: "JetZero",
    initials: "JZ",
    sector: "Aviation · Airframes",
    sectorKey: "aviation",
    stage: "Series B",
    vehicle: "AXV SPV II, LLC",
    hq: "Long Beach, CA",
    founded: "2021",
    website: "jetzero.aero",
    founders: [
      { name: "Tom O'Leary", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Mark Page", role: "Co-founder, Chief Engineer" },
    ],
    short: "Blended-wing-body airframe for long-range, fuel-efficient commercial and defense flight.",
    building: [
      "JetZero is developing a clean-sheet blended-wing-body (BWB) aircraft, a fundamentally different airframe architecture that integrates the wing and fuselage into a single lifting surface.",
      "The configuration targets meaningful reductions in fuel burn and emissions versus conventional tube-and-wing designs, with applications across long-haul commercial aviation and defense logistics and tanker platforms.",
      "JetZero is one of the few companies attempting a new commercial airframe at scale in decades, a position that aligns with increased DoD and civil-aviation interest in next-generation platform economics.",
    ],
    thesis: "Airframes are a generational bet. The economics of BWB, the regulatory receptivity, and the defense-side tanker and transport opportunities converge in a way that creates a rare window for a new entrant. AXV participated to support founders with conviction and capital discipline.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in the Series B (2025) via SPV",
      "Portfolio engagement on commercial and defense go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Advancing toward a demonstrator aircraft program",
      "Engagements across commercial and defense customers",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/jetzero-hangar.jpg", caption: "Blended-wing-body demonstrator, head-on in the hangar", aspect: "16 / 10" },
    ],
    related: ["whisper-aero", "istari-digital"],
  },
  {
    slug: "safire-technology",
    co: "Safire Technology Group",
    initials: "SF",
    sector: "Energy · Defense",
    sectorKey: "aviation",
    stage: "Series A",
    hq: "Boston, MA",
    founded: "2019",
    website: "safire.co",
    founders: [
      { name: "John Lee", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Darren Rush", role: "Chief Technology Officer" },
    ],
    short: "Intelligent battery management and power-control for aerospace, defense, and electric mobility.",
    building: [
      "Safire Technology Group is building the power-control and battery-intelligence stack for defense, aerospace, and electric mobility, turning energy-storage systems into managed, mission-ready infrastructure.",
      "Their platform spans hardware and software across battery safety, thermal behavior, and power delivery, the layers that determine whether next-generation platforms perform reliably under real operating conditions.",
      "The company is positioned as a cross-domain platform, a rare profile in energy storage, where most companies choose a single vertical.",
    ],
    thesis: "Energy storage is the connective tissue of next-generation defense and mobility platforms. A company with credible technology across multiple end-markets, and defensible IP on the control and safety layers, is a structurally advantaged position. AXV led the Series A with advisory shares.",
    axv_role: [
      "Led the Series A (2026)",
      "Advisory shares in the company",
      "Board participation; strategic introductions across defense and mobility",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Active development programs across multiple end-markets",
      "Expanding engineering and business-development footprint",
    ],
    related: ["claros", "asylon-robotics"],
  },
  {
    slug: "asylon-robotics",
    co: "Asylon Robotics",
    initials: "AR",
    sector: "Autonomy · Security",
    sectorKey: "robotics",
    stage: "Series B",
    hq: "Philadelphia, PA",
    founded: "2015",
    website: "asylonrobotics.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Damon Henry", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Brent McMahon", role: "Co-founder" },
    ],
    short: "Drone and ground-robot perimeter security: automated, proactive, resilient.",
    building: [
      "Asylon brings together aerial drones, ground robots, and human-in-the-loop AI into a single, scalable platform for perimeter security.",
      "The approach redefines what security can be: automated, proactive, and resilient, so organizations can protect people, assets, and supply chains with confidence in a world of constant change.",
      "Asylon is building toward a category where physical security and autonomy converge, serving enterprise, critical-infrastructure, and government customers.",
    ],
    thesis: "Perimeter security is being rebuilt around autonomy and AI. Asylon is one of the few companies operating at scale across aerial and ground robotics with a unified platform, a position that gets more defensible as customers expand their deployments.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Series B (2026)",
      "Portfolio engagement on enterprise and government go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Deployments across enterprise, logistics, and critical-infrastructure customers",
      "Integrated aerial + ground + AI operations platform",
    ],
    related: ["scylla", "exyn-technologies", "zeromark"],
  },
  {
    slug: "claros",
    co: "Claros Technologies",
    initials: "CL",
    sector: "Compute · Data Centers",
    sectorKey: "ai",
    stage: "Seed",
    hq: "United States",
    founded: "2023",
    website: "claros.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Dan Kultran", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "Power delivery and edge-compute infrastructure for mission-critical AI workloads.",
    building: [
      "Claros optimizes power delivery in data centers using innovative hardware and software, redefining infrastructure for sustainable, high-performance computing.",
      "As AI workloads reshape data-center economics, power becomes the binding constraint, and Claros sits at the intersection of silicon, thermal, and systems engineering that defines the next generation of compute infrastructure.",
    ],
    thesis: "Power is the new bottleneck of AI. Claros is building at the layer where hardware, software, and facilities meet, a system-level approach to a problem that has historically been addressed with point solutions. Strong technical founding team; large and time-sensitive market.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Seed round (2026)",
      "Introductions across hyperscaler and defense-compute customers",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Early-stage deployments and design partnerships",
    ],
    related: ["edgecortix", "safire-technology"],
  },
  {
    slug: "outpost-space",
    co: "Outpost Space",
    initials: "OS",
    sector: "Space · Logistics",
    sectorKey: "space",
    stage: "Pre-A",
    hq: "Santa Monica, CA",
    founded: "2021",
    website: "outpostspace.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Jason Dunn", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Michael Vergalla", role: "Co-founder, CTO" },
    ],
    short: "Reusable orbital cargo return: scalable downmass for commercial and government customers.",
    building: [
      "Outpost Space is building reusable reentry spacecraft purpose-built for scalable space logistics and orbital manufacturing.",
      "The company focuses on the 'downmass' problem: how to reliably, repeatedly, and affordably return material from orbit to Earth, an under-developed layer of the space economy as in-space manufacturing and experimentation accelerate.",
      "Outpost's platform is designed to serve both commercial and government customers, with a long-term vision of making reusable return as operationally routine as launch.",
    ],
    thesis: "Launch has been solved at scale; return has not. The companies building credible, reusable downmass architectures are positioned to own a critical primitive of the space economy for decades. AXV led the Pre-A round.",
    axv_role: [
      "Led the Pre-A round (2026)",
      "Active on commercial and government go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Technical development progressing toward flight demonstration",
      "Customer conversations across commercial and government downmass demand",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/outpost-container.jpg", caption: "Reentry cargo carrier — the returnable container that closes the downmass loop", aspect: "16 / 9" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/outpost-team.jpg",      caption: "Team after a successful parafoil recovery test in the high desert",           aspect: "16 / 10" },
    ],
    related: ["privateer-space", "starfish-space", "whisper-aero"],
  },
  {
    slug: "seasats",
    co: "Seasats",
    initials: "SS",
    sector: "Autonomy · Maritime",
    sectorKey: "autonomy",
    stage: "Seed+",
    hq: "San Diego, CA",
    founded: "2020",
    website: "seasats.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Mike Flanigan", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Grant Gamble", role: "Co-founder" },
    ],
    short: "Solar-powered autonomous surface vessels for long-endurance maritime ISR.",
    building: [
      "Seasats specializes in the development and operation of solar-powered autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) for defense, scientific, and commercial applications.",
      "Their ASVs are utilized for monitoring harmful algal blooms, mapping undersea reefs and vegetation, tracking marine mammals, and conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.",
      "By combining persistent solar power with a low-profile, autonomous platform, Seasats delivers a dramatically longer-endurance maritime sensor than conventional manned or battery-only systems.",
    ],
    thesis: "Maritime autonomy is a long-tail opportunity hiding in plain sight. AXV identified Seasats pre-Seed via a domain deep dive and secured allocation in an oversubscribed round. Seasats' solar-powered platform has structural advantages in endurance and unit economics.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Seed+ round (2025)",
      "Identified pre-Seed via maritime autonomy deep dive",
      "Defense and scientific customer introductions",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Deployments across defense, scientific, and commercial maritime customers",
      "Long-endurance ISR and environmental monitoring missions",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/seasats-fleet.webp",       caption: "Solar ASVs holding formation on a dawn transit",        aspect: "16 / 9" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/seasats-interceptor.jpg",  caption: "High-speed interceptor variant under power off San Diego", aspect: "16 / 9" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/seasats-assembly.jpg",     caption: "Integration and final assembly at the San Diego facility", aspect: "3 / 2" },
    ],
    related: ["asylon-robotics", "privateer-space", "exyn-technologies"],
  },
  {
    slug: "vermeer",
    co: "Vermeer",
    initials: "VM",
    sector: "AR · Navigation",
    sectorKey: "autonomy",
    stage: "Series A",
    hq: "United States",
    founded: "2020",
    website: "getvermeer.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Brian Streem", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "Vision-based navigation for GPS-denied environments, with active US Air Force contracts.",
    building: [
      "Vermeer specializes in augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for mission planning and visualization.",
      "Their technology enables autonomous platforms like drones, satellites, and other systems to navigate GPS-denied environments using vision-based systems.",
      "Vermeer has secured multiple contracts with the U.S. Air Force to enhance command and control capabilities, operating at the intersection of AR, AI, and defense operational needs.",
    ],
    thesis: "GPS-denied navigation is a strategic defense capability. Vision-based systems that are field-proven under real-world constraints are rare. Vermeer's active Air Force contracts validate both the technology and the procurement path.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Series A (2024)",
      "Active on government customer and program expansion",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Multiple active US Air Force contracts",
      "Deployed across command-and-control and visualization use cases",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/vermeer-airframe.png", caption: "Sensor pod mounted under an uncrewed airframe in low light", aspect: "16 / 11" },
    ],
    related: ["zeromark", "seasats", "istari-digital"],
  },
  {
    slug: "edgecortix",
    co: "EdgeCortix",
    initials: "EC",
    sector: "AI · Edge",
    sectorKey: "ai",
    stage: "Series B",
    hq: "Tokyo, JP",
    founded: "2019",
    website: "edgecortix.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Sakyasingha Dasgupta", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "Ultra-efficient AI accelerators for edge inference in defense, robotics, and industrial.",
    building: [
      "EdgeCortix develops ultra-efficient AI accelerators and software for edge devices, targeting defense, robotics, and industrial markets.",
      "Their flagship chip, SAKURA-II, delivers high-performance inference for modern AI models, including LLMs, in compact, power-constrained environments.",
      "The company's compiler-hardware co-design enables seamless deployment without major code rewrites, a critical unlock for real-world edge AI where constraints are unforgiving and software flexibility is scarce.",
    ],
    thesis: "Edge inference is becoming a first-class compute domain as AI moves from the data center to the platform. EdgeCortix combines silicon, software, and systems thinking in a way that competitors typically split across multiple companies.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in the Series B (2025) via SPV",
      "Defense and industrial customer introductions",
    ],
    traction: [
      "SAKURA-II flagship inference chip in market",
      "Design wins across defense, robotics, and industrial customers",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/edgecortix-sakura.webp", caption: "SAKURA-II accelerator on a PCIe card — energy-efficient AI inference at the edge", aspect: "16 / 9" },
    ],
    related: ["claros", "vermeer", "zeromark"],
  },
  {
    slug: "zeromark",
    co: "ZeroMark",
    initials: "ZM",
    sector: "Defense · AI",
    sectorKey: "autonomy",
    stage: "Pre-A",
    hq: "Texas",
    founded: "2023",
    website: "zeromark.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Joel Anderson", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "AI-powered fire-control: turning existing weapons into precision counter-UAS systems.",
    building: [
      "ZeroMark is building the category-defining fire-control system for modern conflict, turning existing weapons into precision systems through AI-powered targeting and autonomy.",
      "Counter-UAS is one of the most urgent procurement priorities for modern militaries. ZeroMark's approach augments existing small-arms platforms rather than replacing them, compressing the deployment timeline and accepting the realities of procurement.",
      "The technology represents a new category at the intersection of AI, optics, and weapons systems.",
    ],
    thesis: "Counter-UAS is a structural defense priority that will last a decade or more. ZeroMark's augmentation-first approach, upgrading existing systems rather than replacing them, is the thesis we underwrite: near-term impact, real procurement paths, and category-defining technology. AXV led the Pre-A.",
    axv_role: [
      "Led the Pre-A round (2025)",
      "Board participation; active on DoD go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Active engagements across DoD counter-UAS programs",
      "Category-defining technical position",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/zeromark-operator.avif", caption: "Fire-control module mounted to a service rifle during desert testing", aspect: "16 / 11" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/zeromark-turret.avif",   caption: "Crew-served mount fitted with the targeting and optics stack",       aspect: "16 / 11" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/zeromark-module.avif",   caption: "The module itself: AI targeting, optics, and actuation in one unit",  aspect: "16 / 11" },
    ],
    related: ["vermeer", "asylon-robotics", "edgecortix"],
  },
  {
    slug: "whisper-aero",
    co: "Whisper Aero",
    initials: "WA",
    sector: "Propulsion",
    sectorKey: "aviation",
    stage: "Series A",
    hq: "Crossville, TN",
    founded: "2020",
    website: "whisper.aero",
    founders: [
      { name: "Mark Moore", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Ian Villa", role: "Co-founder, COO" },
    ],
    short: "Ultra-quiet, ultra-efficient electric fans for spacecraft, aviation, and consumer platforms.",
    building: [
      "Whisper Aero is dedicated to creating cleaner, quieter, and more efficient propulsion solutions.",
      "They have been awarded NASA funding to design ultra-quiet, ultra-efficient fans for spacecraft cabin ventilation, aiming to improve the acoustic environment in crewed space habitats.",
      "The underlying technology extends across aviation propulsion and consumer platforms, a rare case of a core propulsion innovation with credible multi-market applications.",
    ],
    thesis: "Efficient, quiet propulsion is a structural unlock across aerospace. Whisper Aero's platform technology, validated through NASA awards for crewed-habitat applications, is a long-term bet on a fundamental engineering primitive.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Series A (2024)",
      "Active on aerospace and consumer go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "NASA-funded spacecraft cabin-ventilation program",
      "Aviation and consumer product extensions in development",
    ],
    related: ["jetzero", "outpost-space", "starfish-space"],
  },
  {
    slug: "starfish-space",
    co: "Starfish Space",
    initials: "SP",
    sector: "Space · Servicing",
    sectorKey: "space",
    stage: "Series A",
    hq: "Tukwila, WA",
    founded: "2019",
    website: "starfishspace.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Austin Link", role: "Co-founder" },
      { name: "Trevor Bennett", role: "Co-founder" },
    ],
    short: "In-orbit satellite servicing: the Otter vehicle for life extension and disposal.",
    building: [
      "Starfish Space develops the Otter satellite servicing vehicle for in-orbit satellite maintenance, including life extension and disposal.",
      "Their technology aims to enhance space sustainability by providing affordable and available satellite servicing solutions, addressing a fast-growing need as the number of satellites in orbit scales.",
      "In-orbit servicing is among the highest-value primitives of a mature space economy, and Starfish is one of the credible independent entrants.",
    ],
    thesis: "In-orbit servicing is the infrastructure problem of the space age. As orbital density rises, satellite owners need affordable, routine servicing, and governments need credible tools for responsible disposal. Starfish's Otter vehicle is a practical, economically viable approach.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Series A (2024)",
      "Commercial and government customer introductions",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Otter servicing vehicle in development and customer engagements",
      "Commercial and government demand signals",
    ],
    related: ["privateer-space", "outpost-space", "whisper-aero"],
  },
  {
    slug: "istari-digital",
    co: "Istari Digital",
    initials: "IS",
    sector: "Digital Engineering",
    sectorKey: "ai",
    stage: "Seed",
    hq: "Arlington, VA",
    founded: "2022",
    website: "istaridigital.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Will Roper", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "Digital engineering platform for model-based testing and certification of complex systems.",
    building: [
      "Istari Digital is developing a digital engineering collaboration platform to revolutionize the creation, testing, and certification of technologies through modeling and simulation.",
      "Defense and aerospace certification processes are time-consuming and expensive. Istari's platform applies modern software collaboration patterns to the full lifecycle of digital engineering: design, testing, and certification.",
      "Founded by a former senior defense acquisition leader, the company is built on direct knowledge of where digital engineering needs to go for next-generation systems.",
    ],
    thesis: "Digital engineering is how next-generation defense systems are actually built. Istari is tackling the connective layer, a platform for collaboration, simulation, and certification across the full lifecycle. Founder-market fit is exceptional.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in the Seed round (2024)",
      "Active on defense customer and prime-contractor engagement",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Engagements across defense primes and government customers",
      "Platform deployed on complex-systems certification workflows",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/istari-aircraft.avif", caption: "Uncrewed combat aircraft — the class of system Istari's platform certifies", aspect: "16 / 10" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/istari-team.avif",     caption: "The Istari team at AIAA",                                                aspect: "2 / 1" },
    ],
    related: ["wilder-systems", "vermeer", "jetzero"],
  },
  {
    slug: "wilder-systems",
    co: "Wilder Systems",
    initials: "WS",
    sector: "Robotics · Manufacturing",
    sectorKey: "robotics",
    stage: "Seed",
    hq: "Austin, TX",
    founded: "2017",
    website: "wildersystems.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Will Wilder", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "Modular robotic systems for aerospace manufacturing, maintenance, and inspection.",
    building: [
      "Wilder Systems provides modular robotic solutions for aerospace manufacturing and maintenance.",
      "Their systems automate tasks such as aircraft washing, defastening, inspection, and drilling, improving productivity, quality, and ergonomics in the aerospace industry.",
      "The modular architecture is designed to deploy across multiple platforms and manufacturing sites, addressing a labor and consistency challenge that aerospace manufacturers face at scale.",
    ],
    thesis: "Aerospace manufacturing is an ergonomics, consistency, and throughput problem as much as a physics one. Wilder's modular approach is aligned with how primes and MROs actually operate: incremental deployment, measurable throughput gains, and compounding automation.",
    axv_role: [
      "Co-invested in the Seed round (2024)",
      "Active on manufacturing and prime-contractor customer engagement",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Deployments across aerospace manufacturing and MRO customers",
      "Automated aircraft washing, defastening, inspection, and drilling",
    ],
    related: ["istari-digital", "jetzero", "asylon-robotics"],
  },
  {
    slug: "scylla",
    co: "Scylla",
    initials: "SC",
    sector: "Security · AI",
    sectorKey: "ai",
    stage: "Seed+",
    hq: "United States",
    founded: "2017",
    website: "scylla.ai",
    founders: [
      { name: "Albert Stepanyan", role: "Founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "AI-driven video intelligence for physical security across enterprise and infrastructure.",
    building: [
      "Scylla operates at the intersection of AI and physical security, delivering video intelligence that enhances safety and security for enterprise and critical-infrastructure customers.",
      "Their platform turns existing camera infrastructure into a real-time decision layer, detecting threats, anomalies, and safety events with a level of reliability that legacy systems cannot provide.",
      "Scylla sits in a category where AI quality is the product, and where defensible model and system performance matters more than feature parity.",
    ],
    thesis: "Physical security is being rebuilt on modern AI. The operator that combines model quality, practical deployment, and enterprise-grade reliability will define the category. Scylla is one of the credible candidates, with strong customer engagement across verticals.",
    axv_role: [
      "Led the Seed+ round (2024)",
      "Enterprise and infrastructure customer introductions",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Deployments across enterprise, critical-infrastructure, and public-safety customers",
      "Active engagement with AI-first security buyers",
    ],
    gallery: [
      { src: "assets/portfolio/scylla-detect.webp", caption: "Natural-language detection running against a live crowd stream", aspect: "16 / 11" },
      { src: "assets/portfolio/scylla-suite.webp",  caption: "Security suite: vehicle identification and tracking history",   aspect: "16 / 10" },
    ],
    related: ["asylon-robotics", "exyn-technologies", "zeromark"],
  },
  {
    slug: "exyn-technologies",
    co: "Exyn Technologies",
    initials: "EX",
    sector: "Autonomy · 3D Mapping",
    sectorKey: "autonomy",
    stage: "Series B",
    hq: "Philadelphia, PA",
    founded: "2014",
    website: "exyn.com",
    founders: [
      { name: "Nader Elm", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
      { name: "Prof. Vijay Kumar", role: "Co-founder" },
    ],
    short: "Autonomous aerial robots for real-time 3D mapping in GPS-denied subterranean environments.",
    building: [
      "Exyn develops autonomous aerial robot systems designed for real-time, safe, and efficient 3D mapping in high-risk, GPS-denied environments.",
      "Their technology is utilized across mining, construction, and geospatial surveying, operating at autonomy Level 4 (full autonomous operation without prior maps or human supervision) in the most challenging environments imaginable.",
      "Exyn's technical foundation, co-founded with Prof. Vijay Kumar, one of the leading authorities in aerial robotics, underpins a product that has been deployed in real operating environments at commercial scale.",
    ],
    thesis: "Subterranean and GPS-denied autonomy is a distinct technical problem with high-value applications. Exyn has the rare combination of academic pedigree, real-world deployments, and customer traction in industries that pay for outcomes.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in Series B (2024)",
      "Commercial customer introductions; platform-extensibility support",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Level 4 autonomy deployed in mining, construction, and geospatial use cases",
      "Commercial-scale deployments in real operating environments",
    ],
    related: ["asylon-robotics", "seasats", "scylla"],
  },
  {
    slug: "cyvl",
    co: "Cyvl",
    initials: "CY",
    sector: "AI · Infrastructure",
    sectorKey: "ai",
    stage: "Seed",
    hq: "Somerville, MA",
    founded: "2021",
    website: "cyvl.ai",
    founders: [
      { name: "Daniel Pelaez", role: "Co-founder, CEO" },
    ],
    short: "Vehicle-mounted LiDAR and computer vision that turn road networks into 3D digital twins.",
    building: [
      "Cyvl builds the sensing and intelligence layer for physical infrastructure, pairing vehicle-mounted LiDAR and camera kits with computer-vision models that classify assets and detect damage.",
      "The platform produces 3D digital twins of road networks, flags distresses like pavement cracking and broken signage, inventories assets, and models maintenance and budget scenarios for the engineers who have to prioritize repairs.",
      "Customers are municipalities, state agencies, and the civil-engineering firms that serve them, covering roads, highways, sidewalks, airports, and rail.",
    ],
    thesis: "Infrastructure management still runs on windshield surveys and spreadsheets. Cyvl attacks that with a hardware-plus-software approach that is hard to copy: purpose-built sensor kits in the field, proprietary perception models, and a data moat that compounds with every mile scanned. Deep tech applied to a large, chronically underserved public-sector market.",
    axv_role: [
      "Participated in the Seed round (2024)",
      "Portfolio engagement on government and engineering-firm go-to-market",
    ],
    traction: [
      "Deployed across 300+ agencies, with 100+ active municipal and agency customers",
      "$14M Series A led by Sentinel Global (2025)",
    ],
    related: ["exyn-technologies", "wilder-systems", "scylla"],
  },
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