What Seahawk Robotics does

Seahawk Robotics Inc. is a Vancouver, BC-based private company founded in 2020 that develops the F4 (Floating Quadcopter), an amphibious uncrewed aerial system purpose-built for marine environments. The F4 is a rugged quadcopter capable of landing on and taking off from water, deploying sensor payloads to depth, and streaming data in real time. Seahawk holds patented technologies that underpin its water-landing capability and low-impact ocean access, and the platform is designed to operate independently or as a cooperative node with uncrewed surface vehicles and third-party oceanographic sensors for fused above/on/below-surface maritime domain awareness.

The company targets B2B enterprise customers across oil and gas, aquaculture, ship hull inspection, search and rescue, environmental monitoring and research, and military and defense use cases. Its go-to-market is direct enterprise sales with quote-based, custom-integration pricing for select partners rather than a standardized product catalog. Revenue mechanics are hardware-led (F4 platform sales) augmented by integration services, with multi-year contract cadence for enterprise deployments. Geographic operations are centered in British Columbia with an aspirational global sales scope.

Seahawk is at an early commercialization stage. The firm has 1–10 employees, has completed first integrated software trials in late 2025 with partner Open Ocean Robotics, and is backed primarily by non-dilutive funding from the Ocean Startup Project ($25,000 in 2020) and Canada's Ocean Supercluster (2025). Next development milestones center on fully autonomous UAS launch and recovery on USV decks using wave-state sensing and computer-vision deck recognition, which are the gating capabilities for scaling beyond pilot deployments.

Name

Seahawk Robotics

Legal name

Seahawk Robotics Inc.

Website

https://seahawkrobotics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Seahawk Robotics builds the F4, an amphibious uncrewed aerial drone that lands on water, deploys sensor payloads, and streams real-time marine data. It sells to enterprise customers in oil and gas, defense, environmental monitoring, and search and rescue.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marine Unmanned Aerial Systems (Amphibious Drones)

NAICS

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

SIC

Search, Detection, Navagation, Guidance, Aeronautical Sys (3812)

akta.pro primary industry

Marine & Underwater Robotics (USVs/UUVs) (HDAAAIAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) & Autonomous Maritime Surface Platforms (IMABAIAE), Maritime Unmanned Systems (USV/UUV) & Control Stations (IMABAKAJ)

Keywords

• Amphibious marine drones
• Uncrewed aerial systems
• Marine monitoring drones
• Autonomous maritime systems
• Underwater inspection drones

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. F4 Drone Sales: Sale of the F4 (Floating Quadcopter) amphibious drone platform, a rugged aerial drone capable of landing on water, deploying sensor payloads, and streaming real-time data for marine monitoring applications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Seahawk Robotics designs, manufactures, and sells the F4 (Floating Quadcopter), a rugged amphibious uncrewed aerial system (UAS) that can land on water, deploy sensor payloads to depth, and stream real-time data for marine monitoring. The F4 operates independently or in coordination with uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) for multi-platform maritime domain awareness, and is sold through direct enterprise B2B sales with custom integrations for select partners.

Product overview

Seahawk Robotics is a single-product company developing advanced uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) purpose-built for marine environments. The core offering is the F4 UAS (Floating Quadcopter), an amphibious drone that enables seamless air, surface, and subsurface operations through patented technologies. The F4 works independently or in coordinated multi-platform deployments with other uncrewed systems (such as uncrewed surface vehicles) for maritime domain awareness applications including environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and defense operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• F4 UAS (Floating Quadcopter) The F4 (Floating Quadcopter) is a rugged amphibious aerial drone that can land on water, deploy sensor payloads to depth, and stream real-time data. It works alone or in sync with other uncrewed systems (such as uncrewed surface vehicles) for marine monitoring applications, providing high-speed, low-risk data collection above, on, and below the ocean surface. It is sold through direct B2B enterprise sales with custom integrations for select partners, targeting oil & gas, aquaculture, ship hull inspection, search & rescue, environmental monitoring, and military and defense customers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Completed first integrated software trials demonstrating direct radio link connectivity and merged telemetry between USV and UAS platforms

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Open Ocean RoboticscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Collaborative research initiative integrating Open Ocean Robotics' uncrewed surface vehicles (USV) with Seahawk Robotics' amphibious UAS. The partnership completed first integrated software trials in late 2025, demonstrating direct radio link connectivity and merged telemetry between platforms for cooperative AI maritime domain awareness.
• Canada's Ocean SuperclustercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Funding and support from Canada's Ocean Supercluster for collaborative research initiative in British Columbia. The project aims to enable cooperative AI for maritime domain awareness through multi-platform coordination, real-time data fusion, and natural-language operator interfaces.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• L3Harris Technologies: Large defense prime offering unmanned maritime surface and subsurface vehicles (e.g., Iver AUVs, ASW USVs) and integrated C4ISR stacks. Broad incumbent in the maritime unmanned systems space competing for defense and security buyers.
• Anduril Industries: US defense-tech prime building autonomous maritime, aerial, and subsea platforms (including Dive-LD AUV and Ghost UAS) for defense and security customers. Broad incumbent competing for the same defense autonomous-maritime procurement dollars.
• Kongsberg Maritime: Division of Kongsberg Gruppen offering underwater autonomous systems, AUVs, and naval C4ISR/sensor suites. A broad maritime autonomy incumbent whose portfolio overlaps Seahawk's cooperative AI maritime domain awareness value proposition.
• DJI Enterprise: Market-leading commercial drone manufacturer whose enterprise Matrice platform is widely used for inspection, search & rescue, and environmental monitoring. Broad UAS incumbent whose commercial customer base overlaps Seahawk's target verticals.

Emerging players

• ThayerMahan: US-based autonomous maritime systems provider specializing in persistent surveillance and marine domain awareness for defense and homeland security. Directly competes for maritime-domain-awareness contracts where Seahawk's cooperative AI stack would also bid.
• SwellPro: Maker of waterproof/amphibious consumer and prosumer quadcopters capable of taking off from and landing on water. Comparable amphibious-drone technology differentiation targeting adjacent (rather than overlapping) buyer segments.

Direct peers

• Maritime Robotics: Norwegian supplier of autonomous surface vessels (USVs/ASVs) and unmanned bridge systems for ocean mapping, surveillance, and environmental monitoring. Comparable niche marine-autonomy player serving the same offshore/inspection/defense segments.
• Saildrone: US-based maker of wind- and solar-powered autonomous USVs that collect above/below-water ocean data for environmental, defense, and hydrographic customers. Closely comparable autonomous-ocean-data-collection business model targeting overlapping marine monitoring buyers.
• SeaRobotics: US-based manufacturer of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) and unmanned marine systems used for hydrography, port security, and environmental surveys. Direct competitive overlap in unmanned ocean-data collection platforms.
• Open Ocean Robotics: Canadian uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) builder and Seahawk's named integration partner for the cooperative AI maritime project. Directly comparable as a marine-domain unmanned systems company pursuing the same air-surface-subsurface stack.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/seahawk-robotics

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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