Nitin Gupta

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of global leader in drone autonomy.
Pioneered AI-native platform for real-time intelligence.
Established thought leadership in autonomous drone industry.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI-driven drone and robotics solutions for enterprise applications.

Contact

nitin@flytbase.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

DronesAi

Other Skills

AerodynamicsAerospaceAircraftAlgorithmsAnalysisArtificial IntelligenceCCTV IntegrationCFDCloud OrchestrationComputer ScienceComputer VisionControl Systems DesignControl TheoryData ProcessingDigital Signal Processors

About

I’m an entrepreneur and technologist with over a decade in drones, robotics, and AI — building at the frontier of autonomy. As Founder & CEO of FlytBase, I’ve led our journey from early experiments in drone control systems to becoming the global leader in enterprise drone autonomy, trusted by Fortune-500 enterprises across energy, utilities, logistics, and mining in 50+ countries worldwide. Along the way, we uncovered a hard truth: enterprises don’t plateau because drones fail — they plateau because humans can’t process the flood of data when operations scale. That insight drove our next leap: evolving FlytBase into an AI-native platform that doesn’t just monitor, but decides and acts. Our latest product, Verkos, fuses data from drones, ground robots, CCTV, and IoT into real-time, site-specific intelligence — turning scaling barriers into competitive advantages. My background in aerospace engineering (IIT Bombay, University of Maryland) keeps me rooted in first principles, while a decade of building FlytBase has taught me that speed of learning is the only durable advantage in the AI era. Our mission: to define and lead the category of AI-native Systems of Action for physical operations — creating the nervous system for the physical world. For me, it comes down to one test every day: Mazza Aayega? — is this the most exciting problem I could be working on? The answer so far has always been yes.

Experience

Flytbase

Founder and CEO

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Built the global leader in enterprise drone autonomy, trusted by Fortune-500 enterprises including Aramco, Shell, Xcel Energy, CSX, Anglo American, and many more.
Deployed in 50+ countries, with regulatory approvals across FAA, EASA, CASA, and other jurisdictions.
Hardware-agnostic architecture with edge AI, cloud orchestration, and enterprise integrations — enabling scalable, enterprise-grade deployments.
Reduced deployment costs by 90%, from $200K+ legacy systems to $20–40K software-centric rollouts.
DJI Official Ecosystem Partner with deep integration into the global drone hardware ecosystem.
Discovered the critical scaling barrier: not drones, but data overwhelm. This led to Verkos, FlytBase’s AI-native evolution — fusing drones, ground robots, CCTV, and IoT into real-time site intelligence.
Took a contrarian go-to-market path: partner-led deployments instead of direct sales, enabling scale without local offices.
Established NestGen, the annual global conference on autonomous drones, cementing thought leadership in the industry.
Built an AI-native organization: daily AI usage across teams, 2-day learning loops, and a culture designed for speed, curiosity, and ownership.
Long-term mission: create the nervous system for the physical world — software that continuously learns, adapts, and orchestrates machines and sensors across large industrial sites.

DronesAIEnterprise SoftwareControl Systems DesignData ProcessingCloud Orchestration+1

Startup leadership program

Fellow

Sep 2013 – Mar 2014 · 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Startup Leadership Inc is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 in Boston, USA, that is focussed on entrepreneurial education. Its flagship program is the Startup Leadership Program (SLP) which brings together entrepreneurs in cities around the world, and provides an education and lifelong network.
http://www.startupleadership.com/

Flytbase labs

Founder and CEO

Jul 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · Pune

FlytBase Labs (NavStik) is a subsidiary of FlytBase, Inc.

Idea research and development (p) ltd.

CEO

Jan 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

We are a multidisciplinary research lab working on development of technologies for analysis and design of aerospace, automobile, energy, robotics and marine systems.
We provide expertise in multidisciplinary areas of fluid dynamics, structures, simulation of dynamical systems, control systems design, and optimization.