Flox Intelligence raises $5M and launches edge AI devices to deter wildlife from critical infrastructure

Flox Intelligence, spun out of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2020, is a finalist in TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Startup Battlefield 200. The company builds edge devices that detect nearby animals, classify species using on-device models, and emit species-specific deterrent sounds to keep wildlife away from critical infrastructure such as rail lines, roads, and airfields.

Flox’s devices use motion sensors to wake the system, trigger a camera, and run perception models locally to identify animals. The company says its system adapts responses over time to reduce habituation by animals and includes a software platform for deployment tracking, reporting, and biodiversity monitoring.

Flox sells battery-operated devices that can be mounted on poles and trees, and it also offers a software platform that shows where devices are deployed and what is happening on the ground. The platform can generate reports for regulatory compliance and biodiversity monitoring.

The company has OEM partnerships with firms that pay an annual fee to deploy Flox’s software on vehicles like trains; train manufacturer Alstom is one such partner.

Flox reports approximately 150 devices are live in North America, Europe, and Australia at airfields and airport perimeters, road and rail corridors (especially fence ends and crossings along wildlife corridors), national parks, agricultural land, urban areas, mining sites, and critical infrastructure such as electrical substations.

Flox expects to end 2026 with revenue of about $1.5 million, deriving income from upfront hardware sales and annual software and AI subscriptions after the first year.

The startup has raised about $5 million across pre-seed and seed rounds, with the seed round led by Unconventional Ventures and Tilia Impact Ventures; co-investors include GENIUS NY, Norrsken, Satgana, and angel investors.

Flox is opening a $10 million Series A to scale from about 150 devices to several thousand deployed units and extend the underlying system beyond its current wildlife use cases.