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Moonware
Moonware is a Los Angeles aviation-technology company building the software and autonomy layer for airfield ground operations. Its flagship product, HALO, is billed as the world's first AI-powered Ground Traffic Control platform - coordinating the crews and equipment that fuel, load, clean, and turn around aircraft, much like air traffic control coordinates planes in the sky. Moonware serves commercial, cargo, defense, and advanced air mobility operators, and has deployed with customers including British Airways, dnata, Japan Airlines, and PrimeFlight across airports in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Mexico City.
AeroVect
AeroVect builds AI-powered autonomous driving software for airside ground support equipment (GSE) - the tractors, dollies and tugs that move bags, cargo and aircraft around airport ramps. Founded in 2020 by Harvard grads Raymond Wang and Eugenio Donati, the company turns existing OEM vehicles into self-driving machines with its hardware-agnostic AeroVect Driver platform, and is deployed with partners including dnata, GAT and Delta Air Lines.
Raymond Wang
Raymond Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO of AeroVect, a Silicon Valley startup building AI-powered autonomous driving systems for airport ground support equipment. A Harvard computer science graduate (Class of 2020) who grew up in Vancouver, Canada, Wang came to aviation obsession early - as a high school student he won the $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award at the 2015 Intel ISEF for an invention that reduced pathogen transmission on aircraft by 55x, and later gave a TED Talk on the subject. At Harvard he co-founded Civology (YC W20) before pivoting to AeroVect, where he and co-founder Eugenio Donati built the world's largest airside driving dataset and deployed autonomous tractor systems at major hubs including Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson and Dubai International. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Manufacturing & Industry, 2022), Wang is reshaping the last 500 feet of global logistics - the chaotic tarmac - with self-driving software built from scratch for the airport environment.