Unmanned Experts Inc.
Autonomous Intelligent Swarmer (AXIS) — software and control systems for coordinating large-scale swarms of autonomous unmanned vehicles
- Sector
- Robotics
- Headquarters
- DENVER, CO
- Latest Form D
- $48K offered, Jun 2025
- Total capital
- $8.5M
- Federal grants
- $6.6M
- 9 awards · 2016–2026
- Rank in peer group#5 of 71
- Private capital raised
- $610K
- 3 Form D · last Jun 2025
- 17 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- $1.2M
- 1 award · Defense
- Rank in Robotics#45 of 544
- Granted patents
- 0
- 2 pending
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Optx: Autonomous Day-night Visual Navigation In Contested, Degraded, And Operationally Limited Battlespace$75K
- Offering registeredForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$48K
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$500K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Adonis: Air-deployable Operationally Networked Intelligent Swarm$1.2M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$110K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · AXIS: Autonomous Intelligent Swarmer$1.2M
- Federal contractDefense · Defcon AI$1.2M
Show 6 earlier federal awards
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · WEB WEASELS: Autonomous Swarming AI Munitions$1.8M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · AIR COMMONS - DENIM: Deployed Environment Networked Information Matrix$749K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · DROIDISH: Collaborative Autonomous Vehicle Language$750K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · SWORmBAT: Swarm Order of Battle$50K
- Federal grantAgriculture · Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (utm) For Wildland Fire Management$598K
- Federal grantAgriculture · Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (utm) For Wildland Fire Management$99K
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Federal first
92months
from Unmanned Experts Inc.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Aug 2016
- Agriculture · $99K
- First Form D · Apr 2024
- $110K · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 8 awards
An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.
Standing among 71 peers
Line = medianRobotics · Software
- Federal grants#5 · top 7%
- Linked publications#1 · top 1%
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Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Ken ErneyResearcherExecutive OfficerLinked by $1.2M in grants as PI
- Keven GamboldResearcherExecutive Officer, DirectorLinked by $3.4M in grants as PI
- Edwin FreebornExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Kevin GamboldExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- William CossoffExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
USPTO · 0 granted of 2- PendingOptimized Broadcast Messaging Among Unmanned Aerial VehiclesUSPTOApplication 18933068
- PendingOptimized Communication Among Unmanned Aerial VehiclesUSPTOApplication 18924956
Recent research by its founders
- Collision Avoidance Strategies for Cooperative Unmanned Aircraft Systems using Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications20236 cites
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
How to read this page
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