Flux Auto
Flux Auto is a YC Winter 2021 (W21) company. Based in Houston, TX, USA. Team of 56.
About Flux Auto
Summary
Flux Auto retrofits existing forklifts, pallet jacks, and tuggers with its Odin AI platform and ARK hardware kit, making legacy material handling fleets fully autonomous in warehouses, farms, and mines. The system maps facilities using lidar and runs vehicles across multiple shifts without floor markings, infrastructure changes, or replacement equipment. It targets operations losing money to forklift operator turnover, accident liability, and the high cost of purpose-built autonomous vehicles.
Business model
Fee for retrofit hardware and the Odin autonomy platform, deployed per unit
Go-to-market
Warehouse, factory, farm, and mine operators are the buyers; Flux leads with a site assessment and sends engineers to install hardware on-site, making adoption direct and hands-on rather than self-serve.
From the Y Combinator listing
General Autonomy for Controlled Spaces
Flux Auto is building autonomous mobility technology to fully automate the movement and operation of vehicles in controlled spaces. Using Flux's solutions customers can reduce their dependency on human drivers, while also increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. Flux is currently deploying in warehouses, farms and mines.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics
- Houston, TX, USA
- 56
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Abhishek Gupta
- Pranav Manpuria
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