More about Nitin Gupta
Building FlytBase: Drone Autonomy Platform
FlytBase offers an enterprise drone automation platform to power large scale deployments of intelligent autonomous UAV fleets. The hardware-agnostic IoT platform features intelligent plugins at the edge, cloud-based real-time fleet management, and APIs for seamless integration with business workflows.
FlytBase is working with a large number of enterprise customers spread across US and Europe, helping them deploy fully automated drone applications for public-safety/security, warehouses, and inspections.
FlytBase is headquartered in Silicon Valley. It has been recognised for its tech-innovation and business-leadership at various events and forums:
== Winner of NTT Data Global Innovation Contest, held at Tokyo in March 2019
== Winner of TiE50 at TiEcon Silicon Valley 2017
== Winner of "Best Startup" at TiECon Pune 2017
== Startup of the Year - Technology, 2016; awarded by the Startup Leadership Program
== Selected among top 45 product startups at InTech50, 2016
== Selected among top 30 Tech Companies in India by Tech30/YourStory, 2016
== Selected among 8 startups for Cisco Launchpad Accelerator Program, 2016
== Selected for TiE Nurture program, 2016
== Selected among 11 startups for GenNext / Microsoft Accelerator Program, 2016
== Winner at TiECon Pune 2015
== Winner at PuneConnect 2015
FlytBase offers an enterprise drone automation platform to power large scale deployments of intelligent autonomous UAV fleets. The hardware-agnostic IoT platform features intelligent plugins at the edge, cloud-based real-time fleet management, and APIs for seamless integration with business workflows.
FlytBase is working with a large number of enterprise customers spread across US and Europe, helping them deploy fully automated drone applications for public-safety/security, warehouses, and inspections.
FlytBase is headquartered in Silicon Valley. It has been recognised for its tech-innovation and business-leadership at various events and forums:
== Winner of NTT Data Global Innovation Contest, held at Tokyo in March 2019
== Winner of TiE50 at TiEcon Silicon Valley 2017
== Winner of "Best Startup" at TiECon Pune 2017
== Startup of the Year - Technology, 2016; awarded by the Startup Leadership Program
== Selected among top 45 product startups at InTech50, 2016
== Selected among top 30 Tech Companies in India by Tech30/YourStory, 2016
== Selected among 8 startups for Cisco Launchpad Accelerator Program, 2016
== Selected for TiE Nurture program, 2016
== Selected among 11 startups for GenNext / Microsoft Accelerator Program, 2016
== Winner at TiECon Pune 2015
== Winner at PuneConnect 2015
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