allocortech

We spent a few years creating components and software to accelerate advanced aircraft development, and now we're the ones taking off!

Check out this video of demonstrations of each of these recent successful customer integrations! ( Suggest cranking up the volume )

Our Story:
Matt and I have been working on airplanes and airplane technology for the better part of 2 decades, and have found that most aircraft companies have the same problem...they have a great idea for a new aircraft product, but the process of getting from not making airplanes to making airplanes is an immense undertaking!  This is true across the board, but in our experience is especially true for the avionics, especially with the demanding communications, power distribution, power storage, actuation and just general purpose computing needs with modern fly-by-wire aircraft. To get to minimum viable product, startups are forced to either work with existing industry players or to vertically integrate and create everything from scratch, of which both options means extremely long schedules and high initial and recurring price tags.  We founded allocortech to help startups solve this aspect of the aircraft problem by allowing them all to utilize a common provider, and thus get most of the benefits of vertical integration with far smaller team sizes, and lower costs to them. We are finding this is not limited to just airplanes, but many other vehicle platforms as well!

allocortech's goal is to enable and accelerate as many vehicle startups  as possible to advance innovation in their industries.

The numbers:
The company has been self-funded to date, and we have done our best to grow the company organically, to prove that our products and services had value.  We have had pretty steady growth over the first few years while going through development, but have started to see a significant ramp-up in revenue numbers over year as product demand has increased by over 50% in the last year.

Growth Profile:
Our primary revenue our first few years came from development and design services, which both kept the company operating and funded numerous research and development efforts to create our product catalog.  We were blessed to have early customers who appreciated our vision, going through the aircraft development process themselves, who served as our sounding board and really, beta testers for our platforms in the first few years. Now that our products and software solutions have reached a level of maturity that allows integration of our products in very fast timescales, the number of customers jumping onboard has increased tremendously! This momentum has carried forward to 2022, and we already have numerous companies we're starting to discuss product integrations with.  We're hopeful this WeFunder campaign, along with some intentional marketing campaigns will continue to accelerate this growth as more people learn what we're up to!

Our Market(s):
While our initial target market has always been aircraft, recently we've found other industries who have similar needs for robust control system components with similar technical needs, and customizable software.  These are all growing markets we hope to penetrate as our name gets out there and our capabilities are demonstrated by our existing customers.

Our Product Suite:
We have created a diverse set of products, that can work together, or on their own, that attempt to meet the needs we know about today. These include general purpose platforms like the Clio that can be used by customers in countless different configurations given its flexibility. It pairs a high power microcontroller with a smorgasbord of I/O and some smart power distribution channels for powering remote loads. Other solutions are more purpose build, like our motor controllers, smart batteries and Comet flight termination system. All of these platforms software can be customized, either by us as a service or by customers for their specific application.  More details of the products can be found on our website We will continue to develop new products as needs arise.

Sales in Scale:
Our products are fairly economical compared to the competition, but that doesn't mean the economics aren't still attractive.  If we get a full solution set integrated into a vehicle, we can see revenue on the $20k-$40k per vehicle range, meaning even on small scales, revenues well into the $MM per customer.  Given a few large scale customers, the company could soar!

Our Team:
Most of our senior employees come from larger companies with mature development models, which has allowed us to bring these qualities into the culture of allocortech. 

Our Projections:
We anticipate our revenue growth, particularly in product sales to increase fairly rapidly in the next two years, as we bring new customers in developing prototypes in small scale. As these prototypes reach low-rate-initial-production, and then move to full rate production in the hundreds to thousands of vehicles , we expect to see explosive increase in product sales. We expect to see transition to production for some of our customers with smaller UAS products in the 2023-2024 time frame, while customers with larger craft will have longer schedules and start to come to this point 2025 and onward. 

Why are we raising:
We have shown demand, let's keep the growth going and scale our company to support it! This means we need to invest capital in supporting our supply chain efforts to ensure we can keep product on-the-shelf, and to support increasing demand from our new customers that we'll bring in both through word of mouth and the marketing campaign that we fund through this raise.  Further, we expect to continue development of products, and to support qualification of our components for the next phase of customer production.

How do we succeed for our investors:
We expect to continue to grow our customer base, capabilities, product catalog, and sales of products in the coming years. While internal growth is golden, we also realize that there will likely be long term strategic benefits to us merging with another company who can help us to both scale and reach new markets.  Given our intended growth, a 10x increase in company valuation, or even more, over the next 3-years is a possible exit.

What do our customers say?
We pride ourselves not only on our technology, but also in how we support our customers success.