Flox Intelligence, a wildlife intelligence company building AI systems designed to prevent human-wildlife conflict across critical infrastructure, has raised $3 million in a Seed+ round led by Tilia Impact Ventures. The round also included participation from Satgana, GENIUS NY operated by CenterState CEO, J.O.S.S., and existing investors Unconventional Ventures and Almi Invest.
The new funding will support expanded deployments across North America while addressing growing international demand for Flox Intelligence’s AI-powered wildlife deterrence platform. The company serves airports, rail corridors, road networks, industrial sites, and other infrastructure operators seeking to reduce wildlife-related incidents before they occur.
Flox Intelligence already works with major airports, departments of transportation, infrastructure owners, and mission-driven organizations across North America and Europe. Customers and partners include the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gerald R. Ford International Airport, WWF, KWS Group, Boliden, and Alstom.
The Seed+ round follows the company’s Seed financing in July last year and marks a period of accelerated execution. In recent months, Flox Intelligence has expanded operations across the U.S. and Canada, grown its New York headquarters, and increased commercial deployments.
Human-wildlife conflict represents a growing multibillion-dollar global challenge. In aviation alone, wildlife strikes are estimated to generate $1 billion to $1.5 billion annually in damage and delays worldwide. In the U.S., more than 1 million wildlife-vehicle collisions occur each year, costing over $10 billion in repairs, medical care, lost productivity, and emergency response. As urban expansion and transportation development continue, animals are increasingly pushed into shrinking corridors, heightening safety, operational, and biodiversity risks.
Flox Intelligence positions its platform as a shift away from traditional reactive tools such as scare tactics, pyrotechnics, fencing, and lethal measures. Instead, the company builds what it describes as physical AI systems that operate continuously in real-world environments. Its technology combines embedded systems, real-time sensing, bioacoustics, and applied wildlife science to influence animal behavior and guide wildlife away from high-risk zones before incidents occur.
The company’s first commercial product, Edge, was developed out of AI research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and validated over five years of field research with wildlife biologists. Edge is engineered for harsh environments, multiple species, extreme weather conditions, remote sites, limited connectivity, and extended uptime.
Edge systems are already deployed in environments ranging from airports managing bird, deer, and coyote risks to rail corridors where large wildlife such as moose and bears can disrupt operations. The platform is also being used along road networks where deer and bison collisions are common, as well as in agricultural and urban settings. To date, Edge has logged more than 60,000 wildlife events across 27 species, with early deployments showing measurable reductions in wildlife presence in high-risk areas.
Beyond deterrence, Flox Intelligence aims to build what it describes as a biodiversity intelligence layer. Each deployment contributes data that strengthens future implementations, creating a growing non-lethal wildlife dataset designed to improve understanding of how animals move and adapt alongside human infrastructure.
KEY QUOTES
“Sara and Tomas possess the qualities of strong founders: unbound ambition and determination, paired with rapid execution and fast learning cycles. Moreover, their mix of business acumen, technical expertise and passion for biodiversity is unique. At Tilia Impact Ventures, we believe protecting our environment requires going beyond CO2 reduction. We must also prioritize biodiversity and human-wildlife coexistence to keep our planet healthy. As AI moves into the physical world, Flox Intelligence is perfectly positioned to become the foundational layer for wildlife intelligence.”
Petr Vitek, GP & Co-founder, Tilia Impact Ventures
“Human-wildlife conflict has been hugely overlooked, and Flox Intelligence is turning the solution to this problem into a scalable business model with tangible impact. Flox Intelligence proves that deep tech can meaningfully change the way industries interact with our natural ecosystems, while deploying at scale and delivering lasting outcomes.”
Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, General Partner, Unconventional Ventures
“The future of infrastructure safety will include wildlife intelligence by default. For decades, we’ve relied on reactive tools — from scare tactics to fences — that don’t scale, don’t learn, and don’t protect the corridors wildlife depends on. For so many years, we have been fighting wildlife, but what if we could communicate with them instead? Flox Intelligence is building a future where critical infrastructure can proactively prevent conflict, where animal movement is respected and safer, and where people and wildlife can finally coexist. Our goal is to make wildlife intelligence a standard layer of modern operations — and to lead that category globally.”
Sara Nozkova, CEO & Co-founder, Flox Intelligence
