Autonomous Operations
Each airship operates without onboard crew.
Flight control, routing, and buoyancy management are handled by satellite-networked autonomous systems designed for repeatable, long-duration operations.
Autonomous Airships.
Global Trade.
Float Cargo is building a new class of cargo vehicle — one that moves freight at trucking costs while reaching places roads and runways can't.
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Airships Reengineered for 21st Century Logistics
100T
Target Payload Class
2027
Prototype Flight
0
Port Dependency
0
Onboard Crew Required
Float operates large rigid-frame airships as an industrial freight platform.
We leverage modern materials, sensing, autonomy, and meteorology to make lighter than air logistics safe and profitable — at a global scale.
Airships / Roadmap
Rather than focusing on a single exquisite airship, we're building a scalable architecture and expanding it in stages.
Atmospheric Routing
Real-time and predictive weather modeling inform route selection. Airships navigate with prevailing wind systems rather than against them, improving speed and energy efficiency.
Point-to-Point Infrastructure
Airships operate without dependence on deepwater ports, long runways, or railheads. Cargo moves directly between origin and destination, reducing congestion and transfer delays.
Intelligence / Vision
Global trade depends on resilient physical infrastructure.
We are building a new layer of that infrastructure in the sky. This is the missing middle: faster than ocean freight, and cheaper and more energy efficient than air transport.
Founder & CEO
Conor Lenahan
Designed and shipped product at Apple and Neuralink. Only works on hard problems, always ships.
CTO
James Harvey
Beat the lottery. Sold YC startup to Dropbox. Early engineer at Samsara.
Vision
The trajectory of 20th-century airship technology pointed toward the same safe, repeatable operational cadence of modern flight. With modern avionics, propulsion, autonomy, and meteorology, we can exceed that operational model and usher in a new golden age of airships.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Location
Earth
Work with us
Float is hiring a small team of hardware engineers ready to get their hands dirty. You'll build what you design, fly what you build, and help shape the future of global logistics.
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