Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Airbound raised $37M to scale autonomous delivery drones, signaling investor appetite for robotics logistics beyond road-based autonomy.

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<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/indias-airbound-bags-37m-to-take-on-trucks-with-rocket-like-drones/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260825/i2.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260825/p2#a260825p2" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jagmeet Singh / <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/indias-airbound-bags-37m-to-take-on-trucks-with-rocket-like-drones/">Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Airbound, an Indian startup building autonomous drones, has raised $37 million in fresh capital as it pushes to make moving goods through &hellip; </p>