The Exyn story
The Exyn story
• 2014 - Founded by Nader Elm and Dr . Vijay Kumar as a spin out of The University of Pennsylvania ’ s General Robotics , Automation , Sensing & Perception ( GRASP ) Lab
• 2015 - Exyn opens its first office at Pennovation . Inaugural flights of ExynAI begin
• 2016 - FirstAutonomous GPS-denied flights with ExynAI . Expand offices to Venture forth ( NE Philadelphia )
• 2017 - Awarded Startup of the Year from Penn ’ s Center for Innovation . Further office expansion to Washington Avenue in Philadelphia . Invited to fly the first ever aircraft inside the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
• 2018 - Exyn begins underground testing of ExynAI including demonstrations for SEPTA and Dundee Precious Metals . Joined Team PLUTO to compete in the DARPA SubT Challenge .
• 2019 - Raised $ 16 + million in Series A round , filed first round of patents with USPTO , and delivered the first set of Exyn A3R ’ s to Dundee Precious Metals
• 2020 - Exyn unveils its product line for the mining industry , the ExynAero and ExynPak
• 2021 - Exyn opens its first Canadian office at the NORCAT Underground Centre
• 2022 - Exyn ranks # 177 on the Inc . 5000 , and unveils AL4 autonomous exploration on a Boston Dynamics Spot with Trimble x7 payload
• 2023 - Enters partnership with Easy Aerial and announces the ExynAero EA6 platform
adaptations based on customer feedback , and to quickly iterate on key software or hardware to ensure enhanced reliability and safe flight . Exyn also benefits from the option to expand its offerings to include EA ’ s dronein-a-box solution , automated charging , and remote operations to further automate their autonomous robot .
Partner Easy Aerial and Exyn , both agile and dynamic startups , were able to quickly and nimbly adjust to customer feature requests , supply chain constraints , new sensors , and specialised configurations . In addition , Easy Aerial and Exyn are ISO-9001 certified and
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