Tempest Droneworx, a Houston-based real-time intelligence technology company, 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, taking place October 14-15 at the Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, brings together the region’s fastest-growing technology companies with top-tier investors, corporate innovation leaders, and strategic partners from across the country.
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 joins a select group of emerging companies chosen through a highly competitive application process and recognized for their innovation, market opportunity, leadership team, customer traction, and growth potential. This year’s presenting companies span sectors including AI, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, cybersecurity, climate technology, robotics, manufacturing, and defense technology.
“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 unmanned systems, security cameras, LiDAR, thermal and RGB 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, Tempest’s technology is platform-, sensor-, communications-, AI/ML-, and presentation-agnostic, allowing customers to integrate existing and future systems without being locked into a single ecosystem.
The company’s technology has been demonstrated through programs 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. Tempest 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.
“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.”
Venture Atlanta alumni include successful technology companies such as Bark, CallRail, Flock Safety, Salesloft, and Pindrop. For more information about Tempest Droneworx, visit www.tempestdroneworx.com. For details about Venture Atlanta, visit www.ventureatlanta.org.
