What Flox Intelligence does

Flox Intelligence, founded in 2020 and spun out of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, develops AI-powered bioacoustics hardware and software for autonomous wildlife deterrence at critical infrastructure. Its core product, Flox Edge, is an edge-based AI device that detects wildlife in real time, emits customized species-specific sounds to steer animals away from airfields, rail corridors, roads, and industrial sites, and logs each event to a proprietary wildlife behavioral dataset that improves model performance with every deployment. The company is building two additional modules: Flox Wildlife Insights for footage analysis and Flox Home for property-level wildlife management.

Flox sells its Edge device through direct enterprise field sales to infrastructure operators, governments, and NGOs, supported by an order capability on its website and an expanding US commercial presence following the 2026 relocation of its headquarters to Syracuse, New York. The company reports more than 60 operators across North America and Europe, including Denver International Airport, Gerald R. Ford Airport, MidAmerica Airport, Parks Canada, BDx Rail, Alstom, and WWF. Revenue is generated through hardware sales with an associated software/insights subscription layer; pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. To date, Flox has raised approximately $5 million across seed and Seed+ rounds, non-dilutive grants from Vinnova and other Swedish agencies, and the $1M GENIUS NY accelerator grand prize.

Name

Flox Intelligence

Legal name

Flox Intelligence Group

Website

https://floxrobotics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Flox Intelligence builds AI-powered bioacoustics hardware and software that autonomously detects and deters wildlife at airports, railways, roads, and industrial sites. The company sells its edge-based Flox Edge device and wildlife insights platform to enterprise infrastructure operators, governments, and NGOs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Wildlife Deterrence Systems

NAICS

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812)

akta.pro primary industry

Real-Time Vision at the Edge (on-device CV/video) (HDAAAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

IoT Farm Sensors & Edge Devices (Soil, Weather, Crop, Water) (AFAAAFAC), Livestock Precision Monitoring Software (Herd/Flock Analytics, Health Alerts) (AFAAAFAM), Environmental Digital Twins & Predictive Analytics (Sensor Fusion, Forecasting, Optimization) (EUAHAKAJ)

Keywords

• Wildlife management AI
• Bioacoustics deterrence systems
• Infrastructure wildlife protection
• Railway collision prevention
• Airport wildlife mitigation

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware Product Sales (Flox Edge): Flox sells its Edge AI device — a physical bioacoustic hardware product — to infrastructure operators. The device is available to order via the company website, suggesting an initial hardware purchase model with ongoing software support.
2. Wildlife Intelligence Platform / SaaS: Alongside hardware, the company likely generates recurring revenue through its wildlife intelligence platform and software services, which log wildlife events, provide insights, and improve deterrence performance over time. The company's product roadmap includes Flox Wildlife Insights and Flox Home, suggesting a multi-tier software offering.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Flox Intelligence sells the Flox Edge, an AI-powered bioacoustics hardware device that autonomously detects, deters, and logs wildlife in real time near critical infrastructure. The system uses edge-based machine learning and customized audio communication to steer wildlife away from airfields, railway corridors, roads, and industrial sites, replacing fences and pyrotechnics with non-lethal, species-specific deterrents. Revenue combines Edge hardware sales with an associated wildlife intelligence software platform that logs events and improves AI accuracy over time.

Product overview

Flox Intelligence offers a product ecosystem centered on AI-powered wildlife intelligence for critical infrastructure. The core product is Flox Edge, an edge-based autonomous AI bioacoustics device currently available for order. The platform is complemented by forthcoming modules: Flox Wildlife Insights for footage analysis and Flox Home for residential properties. All products leverage the same core AI technology that processes animal communication to prevent human-wildlife conflicts across airports, railways, roads, agriculture, and public spaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Flox Edge: AI-powered bioacoustics device for real-time wildlife communication and deterrence; the company's first commercial product
• Flox Wildlife Insights
• Flox Home

Products and services

• Flox Edge AI-powered edge-based bioacoustics device that autonomously detects, deters, and logs wildlife in real time at critical infrastructure such as airports, railway corridors, roads, and industrial sites. It uses machine learning and customized sounds to communicate with and steer wildlife away from infrastructure, targeting enterprise infrastructure operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 60,000 wildlife events logged across 27 species
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• AlstomcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 October 2024Alstom partnered with Flox to develop and test AI wildlife detection technology on the Swedish railway network. The project received SEK 3.3 million (~$321k) in funding from Vinnova, Sweden's government innovation agency. Field tests were scheduled for late 2024 and early 2025. The collaboration aims to reduce train-animal collisions using AI-powered detection and bioacoustic deterrence.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DeTect Inc. DeTect makes MERLIN bird-radar and AI-enabled wildlife detection systems specifically deployed at airports and airfields, the same primary vertical as Flox Edge; both sell to aviation safety/wildlife-hazard teams as a modern alternative to pyrotechnics and falconry.
• Bird-X: Bird-X manufactures ultrasonic, sonic, and visual bird deterrents used at airports, farms, and industrial sites; Flox's bioacoustic Edge device competes head-on with Bird-X's audio-based deterrent category across overlapping end markets.
• Wildlife Acoustics: Wildlife Acoustics is the leading maker of bioacoustic recording hardware (Song Meter) used by ecologists and infrastructure operators for species detection; it shares Flox's core bioacoustic data-collection layer and serves overlapping research/conservation buyers.
• Bird Gard: Bird Gard manufactures species-specific audio bird deterrents used across agriculture, airports, and industrial sites; it is a like-for-like competitor in the bioacoustic/audio-deterrent category Flox Edge is disrupting.

Emerging players

• Aerium Analytics: Aerium Analytics uses drones and AI to survey and manage wildlife near airports and critical infrastructure, addressing the same wildlife-strike risk problem as Flox but with an aerial data-collection layer rather than ground-based bioacoustics.
• Volacom: Volacom offers AI-powered drone and sensor-based wildlife detection solutions aimed at airports and rail operators; it overlaps with Flox's aviation and rail verticals while using a different (aerial) sensing modality.
• Conservation Metrics: Conservation Metrics applies AI and acoustic sensors to large-scale wildlife monitoring for conservation and infrastructure clients, addressing a similar AI-on-wildlife-data opportunity as Flox Wildlife Insights.
• Rainforest Connection: Rainforest Connection uses AI on bioacoustic streams for real-time wildlife and illegal-activity monitoring; it shares Flox's bioacoustic-AI foundation while focusing on conservation and anti-poaching rather than infrastructure deterrence.
• Smart Parks: Smart Parks deploys AI-enabled sensors (including acoustic/camera devices) for wildlife monitoring in parks and reserves; it overlaps with Flox's secondary public-spaces segment and conservation-data layer.

Broad incumbents

• USDA Wildlife Services: USDA Wildlife Services is the dominant government provider of wildlife-damage management at US airports and infrastructure; Flox explicitly positions Edge as an AI-native replacement for the traditional methods this agency oversees.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/floxrobotics
• Facebookfacebook.com/Floxrobotics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds10 records

Investors16 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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