Flox Intelligence raises $5M to deploy AI devices that deter wildlife from trains, airports, and roads
Stockholm startup Flox Intelligence is opening a $10M Series A in October 2026 to scale from about 150 deployed devices to several thousand. Its battery-powered edge AI cameras identify animals locally and trigger species-specific sounds, with Alstom among its OEM partners.
A Stockholm-founded startup called Flox Intelligence is building edge AI devices that detect nearby animals and emit species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure — and in October 2026 announced it is opening a $10 million Series A to scale its deployments.
The company, which spun out of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2020, has raised about $5 million across pre-seed and seed rounds to date. The seed round was led by Unconventional Ventures and Tilia Impact Ventures, with co-investors including GENIUS NY, Norrsken, and Satgana. The new Series A funding would go primarily toward growing from roughly 150 deployed devices to several thousand units and expanding the system beyond wildlife use cases.
Flox was founded by Sara Nozkova, who spent 13 years working in transportation and autonomous vehicles before joining KTH’s AI lab to develop wildlife-deterrent technology. The company’s battery-operated devices mount on poles, trees, and other structures. A motion sensor triggers a camera that uses on-device models — processing data locally rather than in the cloud — to identify animals and emit a deterrent sound matched to the species. The system varies its responses to prevent animals from becoming habituated to repeated signals.
Flox also offers a software platform for monitoring deployments, regulatory compliance reporting, and biodiversity tracking. Train manufacturer Alstom is among its OEM partners. About 150 devices are currently live across North America, Europe, and Australia at airfields, road and rail corridors, national parks, agricultural land, and electrical substations. The company expects roughly $1.5 million in revenue by the end of 2026.
The scale of the problem Flox is addressing is significant. The FAA estimates wildlife strikes cost U.S. civil aviation about $272 million per year on average between 1990 and 2025. In France, rail operator SNCF reports wandering animals affect more than 8,000 trains annually. Flox is competing in the space alongside Robin Radar’s Scarecrow and iCHASE, both of which use technology to detect and deter birds specifically.
Flox is one of the finalists at the Startup Battlefield 200 competition at TechCrunch Disrupt, held at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13–15, 2026.