# Voltair: drone company

Canonical ID: `5060c26c-a69e-42a4-a9f5-d0d3bf9afbb7`

## Key facts

- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Funding:** Seed (2026) — [Pioneer Fund](/investors/pioneer-fund.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **YC Batch:** Winter 2026 (W26)
- **Team Size:** 5 (company-reported)
- **YC Partner:** Tyler Bosmeny
- **Notable:** Self-charging [drones](/drones) for utility infrastructure inspection; ~2,000 poles inspected during prototype validation

- **Slug:** voltair
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Valuation of record:** $40M (Company-claimed, as of Mar 2026; Priced round: [Seed post-money](https://svpost.com/articles/voltair-launches-autonomous-drone-network/)) · [see valuations ranking](/valuations.md)
- **Category:** [Drones](/drones)

## Models

- [Faraday-1](/models/voltair-faraday-1.md) (aerial) (id: `1c38f8b5-0d35-477b-bbfd-5ffc86bf37eb`)

## Current leadership (4)

- [Ronan Nopp](/people/ronan-nopp.md) Co-founder & CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Hayden Gosch](/people/hayden-gosch.md) Co-founder & CTO (secondary-verified)
- [Avi Gotskind](/people/avi-gotskind.md) Co-founder & CGO (secondary-verified)
- [Warren Weissbluth](/people/warren-weissbluth.md) Co-founder & COO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (4)

- [Ronan Nopp](/people/ronan-nopp.md)
- [Hayden Gosch](/people/hayden-gosch.md)
- [Avi Gotskind](/people/avi-gotskind.md)
- [Warren Weissbluth](/people/warren-weissbluth.md)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Voltair?

Y Combinator (W26) startup building a globally distributed network of autonomous drones for Earth observation. The [Faraday-1](/models/voltair-faraday-1) is a weatherized hybrid fixed-wing aircraft that recharges on inductive charging pads mounted directly on utility poles, enabling indefinite field deployment without truck rolls or battery swaps. Each charging pad unlocks approximately 1,000 square miles of coverage for power grid, pipeline, rail, and telecom inspection. Founded in 2025 by University of Washington alumni Ronan Nopp and Hayden Gosch, Voltair targets power utilities as its first market — aging infrastructure and wildfire risk drive demand for millimeter-scale inspection data on the 7 million miles of U.S. grid.

### What does Voltair make?

Voltair has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Faraday-1 (Voltair builds physical robots).

### Where is Voltair headquartered?

Voltair is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

### Where does Voltair operate robots?

Voltair is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Voltair a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Voltair ranks in roughly the top 98% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Voltair founded?

Voltair was founded in 2025.


## Sources (3)

1. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair
2. https://svpost.com/articles/voltair-launches-autonomous-drone-network/
3. https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PG8-voltair-drones-that-charge-on-power-lines

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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