Flox Intelligence Seeks $10 Million to Scale Wildlife Deterrent AI
Flox uses edge AI and adaptive sounds to steer wildlife from transport sites, with 150 devices live, $1.5 million forecast and a planned $10 million raise.
Summary
Wildlife strikes cost U.S. civil aviation an average $272 million annually from 1990 to 2025. Animals affect over 8,000 SNCF trains yearly; Brittany's 120 strikes in 2023 disrupted 660 services and caused over 15,000 delay minutes. Flox Intelligence spun out of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2020 after founder Sara Nozkova spent 13 years in transportation and autonomous vehicles. Its battery-operated edge devices process data locally: a motion sensor activates a camera, on-device models identify the animal, and species-appropriate sounds drive it away. Responses change with behavior and experience to limit habituation.
About 150 units operate in North America, Europe and Australia across airfields, airport perimeters, roads, railways, wildlife-corridor crossings and fence ends, national parks, farms, cities, mines and electrical substations. Flox's platform maps devices and activity while producing regulatory and biodiversity reports. Customers buy hardware and pay annual software and AI subscriptions after year one; OEMs pay annual vehicle-deployment fees, with Alstom a train partner. Flox forecasts about $1.5 million in 2026 revenue and ultimately wants its software running on trains, cars, drones and other outdoor machines.
Flox has raised about $5 million through pre-seed and seed rounds, led at seed by Unconventional Ventures and Tilia Impact Ventures, with GENIUS NY, Norrsken, Satgana and angels also investing. A new $10 million Series A would expand deployments from 150 to several thousand and extend beyond wildlife. Rivals include Robin Radar's Scarecrow, which records bird activity and plays species-specific distress calls, and iCHASE, which uses computer vision to aim an adaptive moving laser. Nozkova cites Flox's broader system and field data on animals including moose and grizzly bears as its defense. Flox is a Startup Battlefield 200 finalist at Disrupt in San Francisco from October 13 to 15, 2026.
Positives
- About 150 Flox devices already operate across North America, Europe and Australia in transport, agriculture, mining, urban and critical-infrastructure settings.
- Approximately $1.5 million in 2026 revenue is forecast through hardware sales, recurring AI subscriptions and OEM licensing.
- Alstom pays to deploy Flox software on trains, validating an expansion path beyond standalone battery-operated units.
- About $5 million has been raised from Unconventional Ventures, Tilia Impact Ventures, GENIUS NY, Norrsken, Satgana and angel investors.
- Regulatory compliance reports and biodiversity monitoring give customers uses beyond preventing wildlife collisions.
Risks & concerns
- Wildlife strikes cost U.S. civil aviation an average $272 million annually between 1990 and 2025.
- More than 8,000 SNCF trains are affected by wandering animals each year, making them one of its five leading delay causes.
- Brittany recorded 120 train collisions with animals in 2023, disrupting 660 services and producing over 15,000 minutes of delays.
- Robin Radar's Scarecrow and iCHASE already offer adaptive bird-deterrence technologies using distress calls or computer-guided lasers.
- Scaling from roughly 150 devices to several thousand depends partly on completing the newly opened $10 million Series A.