Deal highlights

• A complete solution (hardware + services) for businesses to fly commercial-sized drones over populated areas  
• Engineering a new standard of safety that addresses public concern
• Only company to publicly prove the functionality and reliability of a parachute recovery system to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and industry leaders
• Exceeds upcoming global regulatory standards from civil aviation authorities
• Patented breakthrough technologies and systems 
• $3.4M+ raised to date from private investors 
• $127B total available market by 2020

100,000+ Commercial drone pilots in US who cannot fly over people

Per the FAA, as of January 2018, there are 100,000+ Part 107 commercial pilots in the US using drones in business. Their numbers grow by 300 each day. The ability to operate a UAV over urban environments for commercial purposes is critical for the industry to expand. Commercial use of drones will cut cost, increase efficiency, improve safety, time, convenience, and overall expand commercial operations.

The danger of operating drones over urban environments is that flight conditions are constantly changing, and drones are unpredictable when failure happens. When a 20-pound object falls out of the sky, it is not just hurting someone—it is killing someone. That is not a risk the public should have to accept.

As a result, the FAA and other international aviation authorities have prohibited commercial flight operations over non-involved people. This risk-averse restriction is preventing growth of this rapidly evolving industry—and will continue to restrict growth until there is a reliable failsafe solution...

Indemnis—making safe, regulated commercial flight over people possible

Indemnis provides both the hardware and the services that enable the integration of small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAS) into the national airspace for the purpose of safely performing commercial operations over urban environments.

•  “Just in case” safety  Like seat belts or airbags in cars, Indemnis UAV recovery systems are the next generation of safety technology. Our products were developed in response to public concerns over injury. We add the necessary measure of “just in case” safety.
•  Setting the bar  Indemnis recovery solutions are designed to exceed expected FAA safety standards for flight over people.
• Unmatched in the market  Indemnis is the only company to publicly prove and validate the functionality and reliability of a parachute recovery system to the FAA and industry leaders.  

1. Quick release clamp for easy installation and user friendly arming process with visual LED and audible status updates.
2. Does not rely on the aircraft in a failure scenario — Auto deployment software detects a fall within 6–10 feet of vertical descent (and our product also includes a manual trigger-by-pilot option).
3. Deploys in under 30 milliseconds at 90 mph, escaping the roll radius to prevent entanglement so the chute will open successfully.
4. Deployment tube, made from ultra-high-strength Dyneema Composite Fabric TM materials, remains rigid — removing the attachment point of the parachute lines away from the control surfaces of the drone.
5. Decelerates the UAV to a stabilized vertical descent rate of 6.8 mph (Nexus i2).

$127B market for commercial drone operation by 2020 

All previous market predictions have continuously underestimated the size and value of the drone market, and investment bankers have refused to make new predictions for the industry until the necessary regulatory framework is in place. Evaluating the industry drone use breakdown, a majority of business use cases involve some form of operation above non-participating human beings and beyond-line-of-sight operations; this requires a need to prove the operations can completed safely before they will be approved by the FAA.

People are just beginning to understand that machines will be buzzing above our heads on a daily basis and the sky is about to become far busier than ever imagined. Time Magazine recently published an article and declared this the drone age, "Drones are here to stay. Get used to it." (http://time.com/longform/time-...)

Indemnis is focused on growing the market share and being the leader in enabling flight operations over people without limitations, from the regulation and waiver processes to hardware and service.

The dream of Jetson-style transportation is becoming reality

UAV or drone technology is revolutionizing business operations across the globe. Flight operations over urban areas will increase efficiency, improve safety, and expand commercial operations in virtually every industry.

We are prepared to succeed.

• IP portfolio includes: approved patent on the generation 1 inflatable parachute airbag system (SLS) and approved patent on the generation 2 inflatable deployment apparatus for descent restraint system for aerial vehicles (Nexus); patents pending on material welding technology, material prep process, valve assembly, and shock cord technology.

• To make our product possible we developed the technology to weld the Dyneema® composite fabric to allow the creation of our products to be possible. (Dyneema® is the world’s strongest mass produced fiber on the planet and is 15 times stronger than steel. This technology has many market uses).

• Because the market is so rapidly changing, many of our technological advances and/or research and development breakthroughs are kept confidential.

Leading the Pack...

When Indemnis began in 2014, the website was a white background with the words, “If you knew what we were up to, you would know we are about to change the world”, and that slogan still rings true today. Flight over people is going to change the landscape of the way businesses operate and Indemnis is the solution that is going to make it possible for non-robust consumer drones to safely be allowed to conduct commercial flight operations over people.

Since launching the Nexus last May, Indemnis has created a new standard in the industry. Through the process of vetting the functionality of our system with regulators and industry leaders, we have become leaders and experts in the failure dynamics unique to multi-rotor UAV flight.

Regulators have entrusted our team to help author the rules that are enabling the industry to expand. Indemnis was appointed as the technical lead for the ASTM testing standard specification WK59171 for Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Parachutes. That standard is intended to set the bar for safety requirements for operations over people. Indemnis was also recently appointed as technical lead for a new initiative: to create a complete guide for all flight-over-people operations and the process of obtaining a waiver to fly drones over populated areas. This is a tall order, and the responsibility speaks volumes about the capabilities of our management team and the respect from our industry.

"This energetic, innovative startup seeks to transform the world by providing needed safety solutions to the commercial UAV community,”   TheTechTribune

The name Indemnis, Latin for “without hurt, harm or damage,” stands as a reminder of the company’s protective promise and mission. We take pride in creating a culture that allows innovation to flourish.

In 2014, our founding team set out to make a solution that would protect life and property on the ground when a drone falls out of the sky. What began as a drawing on a napkin quickly turned into assembling a cut-up air mattress and our first prototype. Since then, we’ve worked to bridge the gap between concept and reality—the word impossible does not exist in our vocabulary. We are privileged to have pulled together some of the brightest minds and out-of-the-box thinkers, and we humble ourselves daily with the speed at which we make advancements.

We work hard to continually create a culture where everyone feels respected and challenged, where people love their jobs. The executive team does not expect anything out of others, that we wouldn’t do ourselves. We have worked together as a team for almost ten years and built an environments of trust. To the outside world, Amber leads everything business related and externally focused and Alan leads the technical R/D and product innovation – in reality we lead as a super unit.

Flight over people is going to change the landscape of the way businesses operate and Indemnis is the solution. Our hardware makes it possible for non-robust consumer drones to safely be allowed to fly without limitations, but our leadership team gives Indemis the ability to take calculated risks and quickly course correct when needed so that we continuously head in the right direction in a rapidly evolving industry.

Join us as we commercialize flight over people and enable the expansion of the industry!