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Voltair

Autonomous Drones for Earth Observation

Y CombinatorWinter 2026ActiveIndustrialsDrones

What they do

Problem

Utilities and other infrastructure operators lack frequent, fast, high-resolution inspection data for aging assets spread across vast areas.

Solution

Voltair provides long-range, weatherized autonomous drone fleets with pole-mounted charging pads to create a distributed earth-observation and infrastructure inspection network.

Who it's for

Power utilities and other large infrastructure operators (e.g., road, rail, telecom) use this for asset inspection and monitoring.

Founders

Ronan Nopp
Founder

Ronan is the co-founder and CEO of Voltair. He independently designed and tuned the controls system for a manned eVTOL aircraft while still in school.

Hayden Gosch
Founder

Hayden is the co-founder and CTO of Voltair. He studied electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington, where he focused on power electronics. He spent two years doing system protection engineering at Seattle City Light and later worked in R&D at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL).

Avi Gotskind
Founder

Avi is the co-founder and CGO of Voltair. He worked as a consultant on GTM and government affairs strategy across aerospace and space companies, including ExoAnalytic Solutions, Virgin Galactic, and briefly Amazon Kuiper. Formerly a member of the National Youth Orchestra.

Warren Weissbluth
Founder

Warren is the co-founder & COO of Voltair. He studied Operations Research engineering at Rice University. Warren has previously worked for 2x NSF funded startups, where he helped raise a $1M SBIR. He interned for Boeing (structures engineering) during his freshman summer.

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