Overview
Flux Auto is a Bengaluru-based Y Combinator W21 startup building physical AI for warehouses and factories. The company developed Odin, a universal autonomy platform that can retrofit any vehicle for autonomous operation in industrial and heavy-lifting environments. The only autonomous vehicle company to successfully run vehicles in real-time road and traffic scenarios in India.
Reality check
Odin retrofit (company-claimed)
Retrofits existing forklifts, pallet jacks, reach trucks and tow trucks for autonomous operation.
Operating scope (company-claimed)
Built for controlled indoor sites such as warehouses, plants and distribution centres; not public roads.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
5
5 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Flux Auto on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Flux Auto's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Abhishek Gupta Co-Founder & COOsecondary-verified
- Pranav Manpuria Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Pranav Manpuriacofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Abhishek Gupta
Safety record
No incidents on record for Flux Auto.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Flux Auto2 deployments
Recent coverage
Flux Auto in third-party press
Peer companies
- Blackswan Space3 models
- CarbonSix2 models
- Embark Trucks2 models
- Gatik2 models
- General Intuition2 models
- Genesis AI2 models
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Flux Auto.
People (2)
Funding rounds (1)
- Seed2025-03-14
Investors: Y Combinator (lead), TrueSight Ventures (follow), Metaplanet (follow)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Flux Auto’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-03-14Seed
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
Odin at United States
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
Odin at Germany, Europe
Sources (5)
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-21
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Flux Auto.Peer companies
- Blackswan Space3 models
- CarbonSix2 models
- Embark Trucks2 models
- Gatik2 models
- General Intuition2 models
- Genesis AI2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Flux Auto from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/flux-auto.md
- RSS feed: /companies/flux-auto/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6f127130-a15f-4e1e-bd66-2ca74acfbb23
- Revision history: /companies/flux-auto/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Blackswan Space3 models
- CarbonSix2 models
- Embark Trucks2 models
- Gatik2 models
- General Intuition2 models
- Genesis AI2 models
Video
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Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Flux Auto draws attention at the 60th percentile but verifies reality at the 33rd percentile among brain robots. Hype Gap +26.9, 7th widest among brain robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 7, 2026