Daedalean AG

Autonomous flight control for the electric personal aircraft

Daedalean is building autonomous flight control software for civil aircraft of today and advanced aerial mobility of tomorrow. The Zurich/Switzerland-based company has brought together expertise from the fields of machine learning, robotics, computer vision, path planning as well as aviation-grade software engineering and certification.

Daedalean has partnered with incumbent avionics manufacturers including Honeywell Aerospace (who also invested) and Avidyne to bring to market the first-ever machine-learning based avionics. The company has developed an onboard visual awareness system demonstrating crucial early capabilities on a path to certification for airworthiness.

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06.08.2025

Daedalean acquired by Destinus in CHF 180 million deal to advance AI-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) autonomy (venturelab.swiss)

05.08.2025

Destinus and Daedalean sign CHF 180 million acquisition deal (startupticker.ch)

10.04.2025

Aviation startups expand their reach across Switzerland and Germany (startupticker.ch)

10.04.2025

Aviation startups expand their reach across Switzerland and Germany (startupticker.ch)

06.09.2024

Strategic and leadership changes in the Startup landscape (startupticker.ch)

27.05.2024

Zurich-based startups undergo C-level changes (startupticker.ch)

28.04.2023

Swiss Accelerator: Innosuisse supports 53 companies with CHF112 million (startupticker.ch)

12.08.2022

Daedalean enters the US market with new office (startupticker.ch)

23.03.2022

Porsche, Embraer und Jelmoli kooperieren mit Schweizer Startups (startupticker.ch)

18.01.2022

$58 million to bring autonomous piloting software systems to the market (startupticker.ch)

09.10.2020

Erster Swiss AI-Award geht an Daedalean (startupticker.ch)

24.09.2020

Daedalean’s first machine learning avionics system soon in the market (startupticker.ch)

27.03.2020

Forbes' AI30 DACH presents nine Swiss startups (startupticker.ch)

31.01.2020

EIC Accelerator grants for Swiss startups (startupticker.ch)

29.07.2019

AI startup Daedalean raises CHF 12 million to launch air taxi services (startupticker.ch)

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23.03.2021

Partnership with Reliable Robotics on system integration

06.11.2020

Swiss AI award

15.09.2020

Partnership with Avidyne on developing joint product

08.04.2020

Joint report published with EASA on Concepts of design assurance for neural networks Safet

31.01.2020

Horizon2020 grant awarded

20.11.2019

Partnership and investment with Honeywell

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Daedalean visual systems in action

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