VIRIDIS
About Viridis

An early-stage
aerospace company.

We are exploring unmanned aircraft and autonomous systems.

Our work brings together aircraft design, engineering, and autonomy. We are early in that work, with a technical direction that continues to evolve.

Inside the development
Engineering

Aircraft development.

Four perspectives on our VTOL aircraft concept. These CAD studies document a design in development.

Three-quarter perspective — CAD render of Viridis’s VTOL aircraft concept
Three-quarter perspectiveVTOL aircraft concept · CAD render

Meet the team

The people
behind Viridis.

Four co-founders, working across product, aircraft engineering, and autonomy.

Dylan Brown

Co-Founder Product & Strategy

Dylan leads product direction, customer discovery, and strategic development, translating operational challenges into opportunities for autonomous aircraft systems.

UC BerkeleyEconomics & Data Science

Beckett Song

Co-Founder Avionics & Development

Beckett focuses on avionics and aircraft development, contributing to the aircraft’s onboard systems and technical integration.

Yale UniversityMechanical Engineering

Char Hirata

Co-Founder Engineering & Development

Char contributes to aircraft engineering and development, collaborating across technical design and prototyping.

Santa Clara UniversityMechanical Engineering

Ashkon Chaghajerdi

Co-Founder Autonomy & Software

Ashkon explores autonomy, machine learning, and software, including ergodic search and Bayesian search-map updates for search-and-rescue applications.

UC BerkeleyMathematics & Computer Science

Start a conversation.

viridis.uav@gmail.com