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Flytrex

Flytrex is a Tel Aviv-based drone delivery company that provides fully autonomous, FAA-approved backyard drone delivery for food and retail items.

Founded
2013
HQ
Tel Aviv, Israel
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Flytrex: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $40.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.

Regulatory status1 FAA action

Flytrex holds 1 FAA action, per the DEPLOY registry.

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CategoryDrones

Appears inLogistics robots/Delivery drones

Overview

Flytrex is a Tel Aviv-based drone delivery company that provides fully autonomous, FAA-approved backyard drone delivery for food and retail items. Founded in 2013 by CEO Yariv Bash, Flytrex has raised $60M in total funding including a $40M Series C. The company partners with Walmart (grocery delivery pilot in Fayetteville, NC) and El Pollo Loco (food delivery), offering delivery starting at $0.80 per mile.

Verified record

Verified deployments
1 deployment on file
Active incidents
None on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED
$400M (reported, approximate)as of Nov 2021

Priced roundSeries C post-money

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Key facts

Service

Captive suburban drone delivery (DoorDash); DFW + North Carolina; Sky2 8.8 lb payload.

BVLOS

FAA BVLOS authorized Aug 13 2025 (4th US co, with Wing/Amazon/Zipline).

Delivery categories

Food and retail

CEO

Yariv Bash (Co-founder)

Partners

Walmart, El Pollo Loco

Cost

starting at $0.80 per mile

Uber partnership

Uber Eats drone delivery partnership (2025), Uber invested tens of millions

Financial stage

Growth ($60M total funding, Series C, Uber investment, FAA BVLOS authorized)

Data & sources

Press releases

1

Web sources

2

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Current platform

Flytrex delivery drone (Sky2)

Flytrex, an Israeli-founded, US-operating company led by chief executive and co-founder Yariv Bash, runs an on-demand suburban food and retail drone-delivery service integrated with the DoorDash app in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and North Carolina. Its new Sky2 drone carries up to 8.8 pounds, which it bills as the largest food-delivery payload, and enabled the first two-large-pizza drone delivery with Little Caesars in April 2026. Its verified gating event is an FAA beyond-visual-line-of-sight authorization received on August 13, 2025, described as making Flytrex only the fourth US company to earn it, alongside Wing, Amazon, and Zipline, which enables one-to-many remote operation from a central operations center in place of per-drone visual observers. Its operating model is a captive service: Flytrex flies its own routes and runs the delivery service through DoorDash rather than selling drones to third parties, in contrast to XAG's hardware-sales model and Percepto's captive robotics-as-a-service. The registry records it at early, scaling commercial maturity, since genuine FAA BVLOS clearance plus a live paid consumer service in two states clears the gate, while it remains geographically limited. Company figures such as more than 200,000 deliveries and a plan to reach 100 million Americans across 37 metro areas are cap-flagged as company-sourced or forward-looking, the exact scope of the BVLOS approval is ambiguous between nationwide and operating-area-scoped, and the Part 108 BVLOS rule remained proposed as of mid-2026 so operations run on Part 107 authorization.

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Partnerships

Every company Flytrex has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total2 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Uber1× joint31 total
  2. 2Walmart1× joint8 total

Most recent

Flytrex on the deployment map

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Relationships

Current leadership (2)

Founders (2)

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Flytrex.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Flytrex in third-party press

Peers

102 peers across 2 segments. Every Flytrex competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

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