ÆTHER / Investors
ÆTHER turns sports venues, trails, resorts and farms into automatic video studios. We are raising to move from operating revenue and a validated technical plan to repeatable production infrastructure.
Buggy tours, padel clubs, resorts and events all sell an experience their guests want on video — and none of them can afford a pilot, a camera crew and an editor per session. Autonomy removes exactly those three costs.
Video is sold on top of a ride, a match or a tour the customer has already paid for. No new demand has to be created — only captured automatically. And every delivered clip doubles as branded UGC: the venue's marketing, published by the guest.
Dock-based drones with cloud APIs, RTK positioning and automatic charging became commercially available and affordable — the missing piece is the orchestration software. That is what we build.
Trajectories, framing decisions and purchased edits accumulate per venue type. Every deployment makes the next one cheaper and better — a flywheel hardware vendors do not own.
Aircraft are flying and clients are paying today. The raise finances the autonomy layer on top of running operations — not the search for a first customer.
The main technical risk — smooth closed-loop control through the drone vendor's cloud API — is attacked first and cheaply. Series hardware is not purchased until the POC gate is passed, and production build starts only on 30–50 pre-orders or confirmed operator demand. Planned duration to industrial launch: 5–6 months.
Planning ranges, pre-tax and pre-shipping, at 1 USD = 6.80 CNY. Most of the total is one-off software development that is reused on every following site — equipment and installation are what repeats.
First site all-in: $62,435–103,760 before taxes, shipping, insurance and permits. Subsequent venues repeat mostly the equipment and installation column.
Roughly half of every ticket drops through as contribution, and the cost side barely moves with volume — the flying, the editing and the delivery are already automated. Growth is a traffic question, not a headcount question.
Illustrative operating model on 25 trading days per month; actual mix varies by venue and season. Payback is modeled per site before we install — and we only install where the venue's own traffic clears it.
Installed nodes turn one sale into an annuity: a base subscription from day one, sessions on top, and churn that is structural — removing the node removes a product the venue now sells.
Each vertical is the same product with a different route file. Two lines earn today; the third is moving from MVP to permanent installation; the rest open as licensed configurations.
An investor pack that hides the risk register is a sales brochure. Ours is on the table.
The IP and the operations are deliberately separated, so capital can enter where it works best.
Holds IP, models and flight data
EU contracts, compliance, equipment supply
Complete the autonomous MVP, validate safety and hardware, deploy the first commercial pilots and build the reusable multi-node core. We want strategic investors, pilot venues, and drone, camera and distribution partners.