Tempest Droneworx™ has been selected to present at Venture Atlanta 2026, the Southeast’s premier technology innovation event and one of the nation’s leading venture capital conferences. The Houston-based company announced its selection on September 11, 2026, after a highly competitive application process. Venture Atlanta will take place October 14-15 at the Woodruff Arts Center and Atlanta Symphony Hall, bringing together the region’s fastest-growing technology companies with top-tier investors, corporate innovation leaders, and potential strategic partners from across the country.
The selection matters because it positions Tempest Droneworx among the Southeast’s most promising tech companies at a time when real-time intelligence and autonomous systems are becoming critical across defense, government, public safety, and commercial markets. Venture Atlanta has helped launch more than 1,000 companies, facilitating more than $8.8 billion in capital raised and $22 billion in successful exits. Presenting at this event could provide Tempest Droneworx with access to investors and strategic partners needed to scale its technology and bring its Corvus MRDR™ platform to market.
Tempest Droneworx develops a real-time, cross-platform intelligence system that fuses data from robots, drones, cameras, sensors, and RADAR into a 3D common operating picture. The company’s Harbinger™ platform aggregates, controls, analyzes, and disseminates information from unmanned systems, security cameras, LiDAR, thermal and RGB sensors, RADAR, satellite data, and other sources. This technology is platform-, sensor-, communications-, AI/ML-, and presentation-agnostic, allowing customers to integrate existing and future systems without being locked into a single hardware or software ecosystem. The company’s technology has been demonstrated through programs with the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Air Force, including simultaneous control of heterogeneous unmanned aircraft and the development of airspace deconfliction and real-time 3D common operating picture capabilities.
In addition to its Harbinger platform, Tempest Droneworx is bringing Corvus MRDR™ (Modular Robotics Development & Reporting) to market. Corvus MRDR is an engineering platform that allows researchers and developers to build and test robotics, autonomy, cooperative control, and multi-vehicle technologies using combinations of virtual and physical systems in the same environment. It enables teams to move incrementally from simulation to real hardware without rebuilding the test environment around their code, while capturing telemetry for analysis and playback. This could accelerate development cycles and reduce costs for organizations working on autonomous systems.
The implications of this announcement extend beyond a single conference appearance. Venture Atlanta’s track record of connecting startups with capital and strategic partners suggests that Tempest Droneworx could secure the funding and relationships necessary to expand its operations. The company serves defense, government, public safety, research, agriculture, infrastructure, and commercial markets, and is an SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Houston, Texas. For more information, visit Venture Atlanta. To view the full announcement, including downloadable images, bios, and more, click here.
