Tempest Droneworx™ has been selected to present at Venture Atlanta 2026, the Southeast’s premier technology innovation event and one of the nation’s leading venture capital conferences. The event, scheduled for October 14-15 at the Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, connects fast-growing technology companies with top-tier investors, corporate innovation leaders, and strategic partners from across the country. This selection matters because it signals that Tempest Droneworx’s platform-agnostic approach to real-time intelligence is gaining traction in a competitive field that includes AI, defense technology, robotics, and other emerging sectors.
Now in its 19th year, Venture Atlanta has helped launch more than 1,000 companies, facilitating over $8.8 billion in capital raised and $22 billion in successful exits. Tempest Droneworx was chosen through a highly competitive application process that evaluated innovation, market opportunity, leadership team, customer traction, and growth potential. Presenting companies span sectors including AI, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, cybersecurity, climate technology, robotics, manufacturing, and defense technology. Being selected alongside these companies positions Tempest Droneworx to gain visibility with hundreds of venture capital firms, corporate venture groups, private equity investors, and Fortune 500 innovation leaders.
“Over the last several years, we’ve gone from proving that our technology works to proving that it solves real problems,” said Ty Audronis, founder and CTO of Tempest Droneworx™. “We’ve demonstrated our technology with the FAA and U.S. Air Force, we’re working with universities and commercial customers, and we’re bringing Corvus MRDR™ to market. Being selected for Venture Atlanta gives us the opportunity to tell that story to people who understand what it takes to turn proven technology into a much larger company.”
Tempest Droneworx develops real-time intelligence technology designed to prevent issues from becoming serious problems through real-time insight. Its Harbinger™ platform aggregates, controls, analyzes, and disseminates information from robots, drones, cameras, sensors, RADAR, satellite data, and other sources into a real-time 3D common operating picture. Unlike systems built around a specific aircraft, sensor, communications network, or AI provider, the technology is platform-, sensor-, communications-, AI/ML-, and presentation-agnostic, allowing customers to integrate existing and future systems without being locked into a single hardware or software ecosystem. This flexibility is critical as defense, government, public safety, research, agriculture, infrastructure, and commercial markets increasingly seek interoperable solutions.
“Venture Atlanta is where promising companies get discovered and where the right connections can change what comes next,” said Allyson Eman, CEO of Venture Atlanta. “This year’s companies represent some of the Southeast’s strongest and most ambitious founders and technologies. Being selected in such a competitive field is a significant achievement, and we’re excited to give these companies a platform to connect with hundreds of investors and influential leaders who can help turn visibility into capital, partnerships, and growth.”
The implications of this announcement extend beyond a single conference appearance. For Tempest Droneworx, presenting at Venture Atlanta could accelerate its next stage of growth by connecting it with investors and strategic partners who can help scale its technology. The company has already demonstrated its capabilities with the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Air Force, including simultaneous control of heterogeneous unmanned aircraft and the development of airspace deconfliction and real-time 3D common operating picture capabilities. It is also bringing Corvus MRDR™ (Modular Robotics Development & Reporting) to market, an engineering platform that allows researchers and developers to build and test robotics, autonomy, cooperative control, and multi-vehicle technologies using combinations of virtual and physical systems in the same environment.
Tempest Droneworx is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Houston, Texas. To learn more, visit www.tempestdroneworx.com. For more information about Venture Atlanta, to register for the event, or to view the conference schedule, visit www.ventureatlanta.org.
