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Founder · Engineer · Executive
Benjamin Claman Put the Blimp Back to Work
The Alaska-raised engineer started with cargo, found a market in attention, and turned an old aircraft into a new kind of media platform.
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Hardware · Media · Climate
Buoyant Aero
Buoyant Aero builds zero-emissions, self-flying advertising blimps and rents them out as a turnkey service. Founded in 2020 by MIT hardware engineers Benjamin Claman and Joe Figura, the company (Y Combinator S21) started out designing unmanned cargo airships for middle-mile delivery, then turned the same self-flying blimp technology into 'Blimps-as-a-Service' - electric, camera-equipped ad blimps up to 35 feet long that fly pre-planned routes over events, retail launches and conferences for brands like Amazon Prime Video.
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