Company

Digitising the physical world.

Bluebird AI builds its own sensing estate rather than integrating someone else’s — airframes, cameras and edge gateways on one proprietary platform, with the intelligence running on the device instead of in a datacentre somewhere else. Founded in 2024, manufacturing in San Jose, California and Bangalore, India.

What we believe

Insight should be gained exactly where the event unfolds

A camera that ships video to a cloud has already lost the argument — it has added latency, cost and a privacy problem to a decision that needed none of them. Bluebird runs detection in the camera housing and cognition at the gateway, so what crosses the network is an understood event, not footage waiting to be searched.

Why one platform

Four problems, one estate

Security, business intelligence, aerial logistics and mission-critical response normally mean four vendors, four installations and four sets of data that disagree with each other. They are not four problems. They are one sensing problem pointed in four directions. Because Bluebird builds all of it — the airframes, the cameras, the gateway and the software — those four answers finally agree.

Leadership

The people building it.

Chairman

Bobby Rekhi

A veteran of Silicon Valley and a key player in the venture community since its inception. Managing Director, BSC Investment Group.

President / CEO, Board Member

Rohan Sanil

25 years of product and business experience. Entrepreneurial leader and enterprise sales leader. Expert in computer-vision AI and video technology.

COO, Board Member

Michael Adair

25 years as a technology and media executive, investor and advisor. Ex-Googler, Harvard MBA.

VP Engineering

Prakash Atawale

Results-oriented engineering leader with 25+ years in software and systems engineering. Ex-Googler.

VP Infrastructure

Nate Angara

25 years leading global IT and AI operations for Fortune 100 companies and high-growth startups.

CFO

Francisco Madriz Jr

Big 4-trained CPA (California) with 17 years across high-growth SaaS, robotics and manufacturing companies. Economics from UC Berkeley; accountancy from SFSU.

Board of advisors

Who we take counsel from.

Jeff Frazier

Operating Partner, Digital Alpha Advisors

Previously Managing Director in the Office of the Executive Chairman at Cisco, worldwide public sector lead at Microsoft, and Head of Global Public Sector at Snowflake.

Nagesh Saldi

Former CIO, Tesla

CIO of Tesla from 2018 to 2024, reporting directly to Elon Musk. Joined Tesla from HP in 2012 and built out its data infrastructure for AI and autonomy.

Rob Bernshteyn

General Partner, ICONIQ Growth

CEO and Chairman of Coupa Software for fourteen years, through its 2016 IPO. Board member at PTC.

Responsibility

Privacy built into the architecture, not bolted on as policy.

Video stays on site

Inference runs in the camera and at the gateway. Footage does not leave the premises by default — there is nothing in a cloud to breach.

No facial recognition required

People are attributed by movement and appearance. Tracking works across cameras without identifying anyone.

You own the data

The estate is yours, the recordings are yours, and the platform runs whether or not it can reach us.

Where we build

Global locations, supporting customers worldwide.

San Ramon, California

Headquarters. Design, engineering and US assembly across the Bay Area, in San Ramon and San Jose. Country-of-origin matters to government and critical-infrastructure buyers, and building here is the answer to it.

Bangalore, India

Manufacturing and AI engineering. Scale capacity and a second source for the same hardware, so supply is not a single point of failure.