Flox Intelligence opens $10 million Series A to scale wildlife deterrents

Flox Intelligence grew out of founder Sara Nozkova's 13 years in transportation and autonomous vehicles, where she concluded that machines trained inside controlled environments "quickly go blind" once nature enters the picture. That conviction sent her to the AI lab at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the resulting system spun out of KTH in 2020. Rather than escalate volume, Flox's edge devices sense what an animal is doing, identify the species, and answer with a sound tailored to it — the opposite of the sirens, lights, fences, falcons and culling traditionally used around infrastructure.

The commercial pitch rests on infrastructure owners who already absorb animal-related costs. Flox sells battery-operated units that mount on poles or trees, and a software platform that maps deployments and generates reports for regulatory compliance and biodiversity monitoring. It charges up front for the hardware, then an annual software and AI subscription from the second year, with OEM partners like train maker Alstom paying yearly to embed the software on vehicles.

Flox is not alone in the niche: Robin Radar's Scarecrow uses species-specific distress calls on birds, and iCHASE pairs computer vision with a moving laser. Nozkova points instead to field data she calls ground truth on what actually makes a moose or a grizzly bear move safely. The Series A would carry the company from roughly 150 live devices toward several thousand units and, over time, toward trains, cars and drones.