MightyFly Raises $10M in Funding to Advance Autonomous Air Logistics Platform
The future of logistics won’t be decided only on highways and shipping lanes. It will also be decided in the air. MightyFly is betting on that shift. Out of San Leandro, California, MightyFly is building autonomous hybrid eVTOL cargo aircraft designed for expedited middle mile and last mile logistics. Not tiny hobby drones buzzing around your backyard. Think serious airborne workhorses engineered to move real payloads through real supply chains where time is money and distance is friction. The aircraft are designed to carry up to 500 lbs, travel up to 600 mi, and move at speeds around 150 mph. That combination starts to change how people think about moving goods between cities, hospitals, warehouses, and operations that cannot afford delays.
Behind it all is Manal Habib, CEO and founder of MightyFly. Manal Habib brings the kind of résumé that makes aerospace engineers lean in a little closer. MIT. Stanford. Deep expertise in flight controls. Work that helped produce what is described as the first robust commercial flight controller. Also a private pilot who is literally building her own airplane. That kind of profile tells you this is not theory. This is someone who understands aircraft from the circuit board to the cockpit to the sky itself.
Building aircraft is not a solo sport, and the MightyFly leadership bench reflects that. Fernanda Sausen, Senior Director of Business Development, brings more than 15 years of experience across robotics, automotive, and large scale operational deployments, including projects tied to Disneyland Paris, the Rio 2016 Olympics, the Brazil 2014 World Cup, and Europa Park. Andrew Jensen, Head of Operations, carries more than 21 years of leadership across operations, product, supply chain, and data driven systems, with experience at companies like McMaster Carr, 3D Robotics, and Grabango. Rohan Sharma, Lead of Aircraft Design and Aerodynamics, spent 11 years leading aircraft design teams at Boeing across commercial, military, and advanced R and D programs, backed by a BS, MS, and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Missouri S and T.
Investors are clearly paying attention. MightyFly announced a $10M financing round that brings total funding to $15M. The round includes Draper Associates, At One Ventures, and 500 Global, with additional backing from Global Founders Capital, Graph Ventures, Halogen Ventures, and Side Door Ventures. When firms like that gather around a young aerospace company, it usually means they see more than a prototype. They see a logistics shift forming above the horizon.
What makes the story interesting is the positioning. MightyFly is not just building aircraft. The company designs, manufactures, and operates the platform. Hardware, autonomy, and logistics wrapped into one ecosystem. In a world where supply chains stretch across continents but patience gets shorter every quarter, the idea of lifting hundreds of pounds of cargo straight into the air and sending it hundreds of miles starts to look less like science fiction and more like common sense.