Orynth Industries was founded on a simple, unbearable fact: in the aftermath of a disaster, the people most likely to survive are the ones found first, and today far too many are found too late, or not at all.
We watched the same pattern repeat across earthquakes, floods, and wildfires. Responders are heroic, but they are outnumbered by the ground they have to cover, and the terrain is exactly the part that disaster has made impossible to cross. The search is slow because the tools are slow.
So we set out to build the search that moves at the speed of the disaster itself, the first coordinated drone swarms purpose-built to find the displaced and map a catastrophe as it unfolds. Not a single drone, but many, acting as one intelligence over the whole event.
Our promise is in our tagline: nobody left in the dark. Not the lost, and not the people searching for them.
Every hour shaved off a search is a life that gets a chance. We optimize for the minutes that matter most, the first ones.
We build for collapsed buildings, flooded streets, and burned ground, the places conventional search can no longer reach.
Our work is shaped by the search-and-rescue teams we're in constant contact with. If it doesn't help the people on the ground, it doesn't ship.
Lives depend on this working. Every part of the system is tested against real field conditions before it goes anywhere near a deployment.
Orynth is founded and led by Donavan Brown, pairing hard autonomy engineering with front-line search-and-rescue thinking.
Mechanical Engineer with hands-on experience with C-UAV and UAV systems.
Marketing & Physiology student at Texas State University with a passion for innovation, sales, and customer engagement.
Mechanical Engineer with applied experience in astrodynamics, orbital mechanics, and the design and development of CubeSats and advanced drone platforms.
Software engineer with experience in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics.
Software Engineer with experience in data engineering, RPA automation, and network science who enjoys collaborating across teams to build impactful solutions.
Mechanical Engineer with a passion for designing practical solutions and improving them through testing and analysis.
Electrical Engineer with applied experience in power, microcontrollers, and sensor integration.
Mechanical Engineer with experience in CFD, additive manufacturing, and aerodynamic research.
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Orynth is in active flight testing now, pushing the system against the conditions it's built for. We're keeping the specifics close until the work is ready to stand on its own, but the reveal is coming, and it will be worth the wait.
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