Auterion

Robotics · Arlington, US

Defense software company enabling autonomous drone swarms across air, land and sea (AuterionOS).

Founders

Lorenz Meier (Switzerland · ♂) — The ETH Zurich researcher who created the widely-adopted open-source drone autopilot standards PX4 and Pixhawk, he co-founded Auterion to build a sustainable commercial business around that open-source drone software.
Kevin Sartori (Switzerland · ♂) — An ETH Zurich robotics graduate and Berkeley MBA who worked at 3D Robotics in Silicon Valley, he reunited with lab-mate Meier to co-found Auterion around open-source drone software.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Sep 2025	Series B Auterion raised $130 million in a Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners to scale its AI drone swarms for defense.	$130M
Feb 2024	Funding round Auterion, a Zurich drone-OS defensetech, received investment from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the Diehl family office.	—

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