Tempest Droneworx™ has been selected as one of the Southeast’s most promising technology companies to present at Venture Atlanta 2026, the region’s premier innovation event and a leading national venture capital conference. The selection places the Houston-based real-time intelligence firm among a select group of emerging companies recognized for innovation, market opportunity, leadership, customer traction, and growth potential. The conference will be held October 14-15 at the Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, bringing together top-tier investors, corporate innovation leaders, and strategic partners from across the country.
Now in its 19th year, Venture Atlanta has helped launch more than 1,000 companies, facilitating over $8.8 billion in capital raised and $22 billion in successful exits. The event is anticipated to be sold out. “Venture Atlanta is where promising companies get discovered and where the right connections can change what comes next,” said Allyson Eman, CEO of Venture Atlanta. “This year’s companies represent some of the Southeast’s strongest and most ambitious founders and technologies. Being selected in such a competitive field is a significant achievement, and we’re excited to give these companies a platform to connect with hundreds of investors and influential leaders who can help turn visibility into capital, partnerships, and growth.”
For Tempest Droneworx, the selection represents a critical opportunity to accelerate its next stage of growth. The company develops real-time intelligence technology designed to prevent issues from becoming serious problems by bringing data from robots, drones, cameras, sensors, RADAR, and other sources into a real-time 3D common operating picture. Unlike systems built around a specific aircraft, sensor, communications network, or AI provider, the company’s technology is platform-, sensor-, communications-, AI/ML-, and presentation-agnostic, allowing customers to integrate existing and future systems without being locked into a single hardware or software ecosystem.
“Over the last several years, we’ve gone from proving that our technology works to proving that it solves real problems,” said Ty Audronis, founder and CTO of Tempest Droneworx™. “We’ve demonstrated our technology with the FAA and U.S. Air Force, we’re working with universities and commercial customers, and we’re bringing Corvus MRDR™ to market. Being selected for Venture Atlanta gives us the opportunity to tell that story to people who understand what it takes to turn proven technology into a much larger company. We’re looking forward to meeting investors and strategic partners who can help us accelerate that next stage of growth.”
Tempest Droneworx’s Harbinger™ platform aggregates, controls, analyzes, and disseminates information from unmanned systems, security cameras, LiDAR, thermal and RGB sensors, RADAR, satellite data, and other sources. The company has demonstrated its technology through programs with the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Air Force, including simultaneous control of heterogeneous unmanned aircraft and the development of airspace deconfliction and real-time 3D common operating picture capabilities. It serves defense, government, public safety, research, agriculture, infrastructure, and commercial markets as an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business.
The company is also bringing Corvus MRDR™ (Modular Robotics Development & Reporting) to market, an engineering platform that allows researchers and developers to build and test robotics, autonomy, cooperative control, and multi-vehicle technologies using combinations of virtual and physical systems in the same environment. Corvus MRDR enables teams to move incrementally from simulation to real hardware without rebuilding the test environment around their code, while capturing telemetry for analysis and playback.
Venture Atlanta 2026 will connect Tempest Droneworx with hundreds of venture capital firms, corporate venture groups, private equity investors, and Fortune 500 innovation leaders. Venture Atlanta alumni include successful technology companies such as Bark, CallRail, Car360, Flock Safety, Florence Healthcare, ParkMobile, Salesloft, Kabbage, Bitcoin Depot, PrizePicks, Stax, SingleOps, Pindrop, and Terminus. To learn more about Tempest Droneworx™, visit www.tempestdroneworx.com. For more information about Venture Atlanta, to register for the event, or to view the conference schedule, visit www.ventureatlanta.org.
