Tempest Droneworx™ today announced its selection as one of the Southeast’s most promising tech companies to present at Venture Atlanta 2026, the Southeast’s premier technology innovation event and one of the nation’s leading venture capital conferences. Taking place October 14-15 at the Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, Venture Atlanta brings together the region’s fastest-growing technology companies with top-tier investors, corporate innovation leaders, and potential strategic partners from across the country.
Now in its 19th year, Venture Atlanta has helped launch more than 1,000 companies, facilitating more than $8.8 billion in capital raised and $22 billion in successful exits.
Chosen through a highly competitive application process, Tempest Droneworx™ joins a select group of emerging companies 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, defense technology, and other emerging markets.
“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. We’re looking forward to meeting investors and strategic partners who can help us accelerate that next stage of growth.”
Tempest Droneworx™ develops real-time intelligence technology designed to prevent issues from becoming serious problems through real-time insight. Its technology brings data from robots, drones, cameras, sensors, RADAR, and other sources together into a real-time 3D common operating picture, allowing people and autonomous systems to understand what is happening and act on that information. Unlike systems built around a specific aircraft, sensor, communications network, or AI provider, Tempest Droneworx™ is designed to work across platforms and technologies, allowing customers to use the systems they already have and integrate new ones as their needs change.
As in previous years, Venture Atlanta 2026 is anticipated to be a sold-out event.
“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.”
Each year, Venture Atlanta brings together hundreds of venture capital firms, corporate venture groups, private equity investors, and Fortune 500 innovation leaders seeking the next generation of high-growth technology companies. Venture Atlanta alumni include some of the Southeast’s most successful technology companies, including Bark, CallRail, Car360, Flock Safety, Florence Healthcare, ParkMobile, Salesloft, Kabbage, Bitcoin Depot, PrizePicks, Stax, SingleOps, Pindrop, and Terminus.
To learn more about Tempest Droneworx™, visit www.tempestdroneworx.com. For more information about Venture Atlanta, to register for the event, or to view the conference schedule, please visit www.ventureatlanta.org.
About Venture Atlanta
Venture Atlanta, the Southeast’s technology innovation event, is where the region’s most promising tech companies meet the country's top-tier investors. As the Southeast's largest investor showcase helping launch more than 1,000 companies and raise over $8.8 billion in funding to date, the event connects the region’s top entrepreneurs with local and national investors and others in the technology ecosystem who can help them raise the capital they need to grow their businesses. The annual nonprofit event is a collaboration of the Atlanta CEO Council, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). For more information, visit www.ventureatlanta.org. For updates, follow Venture Atlanta on Twitter and LinkedIn, and visit the Venture Atlanta blog.
About Tempest Droneworx™
Tempest Droneworx™ is a Houston-based real-time intelligence technology company with a mission of preventing 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.
Tempest Droneworx™ 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. 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 Droneworx™ 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. Corvus MRDR™ enables teams to move incrementally from simulation to real hardware without rebuilding the test environment around their code, while capturing telemetry for analysis and playback.
Tempest Droneworx™ serves defense, government, public safety, research, agriculture, infrastructure, and commercial markets. The company is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Houston, Texas.
