Flytrex

Flytrex is a Tel Aviv company that operates suburban restaurant and convenience delivery by drone in the United States. It was founded in 2013 by Yariv Bash, who remains CEO, and Amit Regev. Its distinguishing choice is narrowness: it does not chase medical logistics, defence or long-range cargo, and it concentrates almost entirely on one metropolitan area, Dallas-Fort Worth, with a longer-running operation in North Carolina.

It does not hold its own FAA Part 135 certificate. US flights run under Causey Aviation Unmanned, which received a standard Part 135 air carrier certificate in January 2023 and operates Flytrex aircraft. Live delivery zones listed on Flytrex’s own site as of 2026 are Little Elm, Wylie, Rowlett and Hurst, Texas.

Aircraft and Operations

The Sky2, unveiled in 2026, is the current delivery aircraft, carrying up to 8.8 lb — enough for a family-sized restaurant order rather than a single item, which was the binding constraint on earlier food delivery drones.

In May 2026 Flytrex opened an approximately 8,000-square-foot manufacturing and maintenance facility in Pilot Point, Texas. The company says the site will eventually employ around 50 people and build roughly 1,000 drones a year, handling assembly, maintenance and pre-production testing. Both are stated plans, not achieved output.

Flytrex reported more than 200,000 US deliveries by mid-2026, and holds FAA authorisation for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations without visual observers — one of a small number of delivery operators with that approval. Between January and February 2026 it and Wing flew roughly 8,000 deliveries into overlapping service areas in Little Elm and Wylie, operating simultaneously on 30 of 31 days with automated deconfliction, which is one of the few real-world demonstrations that competing delivery networks can share suburban airspace.

Business Position

Flytrex is privately held and has raised approximately $60 million, following a $40 million Series C led by BRM Group with participation from Lukasz Gadowski, OurCrowd, btov, Backbone Ventures and Benhamou Global Ventures. DoorDash is a live platform partner, with joint operations launched in Little Elm and Frisco in June 2025. Uber made its first drone investment in Flytrex in September 2025, of undisclosed size, alongside a partnership to bring drone delivery to Uber Eats. Revenue is not disclosed.

The stated target is 60 delivery sites across Dallas-Fort Worth by mid-2027, which the company says would put roughly five million residents in range. That is a target.

Why It Matters

Flytrex has solved distribution in the way that matters for consumer delivery: by riding DoorDash and Uber Eats, it does not have to buy customers. Its capital position is also the honest weakness — $60 million raised against competitors backed by Alphabet and Walmart’s volume, in a business where the industry’s failures, DroneUp included, died on cost per delivery rather than on technology.

Two structural dependencies remain. Flytrex flies on someone else’s air carrier certificate, and its geographic concentration means a regulatory or operational problem in one metro area is a problem with the whole company.