I'll research Vantage Robotics to verify its profile.
Vantage Robotics, LLC — commonly "Vantage Robotics" — is a private unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) company headquartered in San Leandro, California, founded in 2013 by Tobin Fisher and Joe van Niekerk. It is venture-backed and privately held, with no public ticker; investors include Sand Hill Angels, Alumni Ventures, Hone Capital, Veteran Ventures Capital, and India-based drone maker ideaForge. Reported funding totals vary by source (roughly $42M raised across disclosed rounds, with some sources citing over $50M including federal R&D awards). Employee count is not consistently disclosed publicly.
Vantage designs and builds small, NDAA-compliant drones and drone components for defense, public-safety, and infrastructure-inspection customers. Its product line includes Snap (an early consumer drone that received an FAA waiver for commercial flight over people), Vesper (a portable ISR quadrotor with 4K and thermal imaging and up to 50-minute endurance), and Trace, a nano reconnaissance drone. The company also produces modular micro-gimbals. Customers have included the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, FBI, NASA, DEA, and CNN. Vesper was among five systems selected for the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit Blue sUAS program, and the company has pursued the Army's Short Range Reconnaissance program.
Litigation posture: The tracked data shows Vantage Robotics as a defendant in a single case, with zero plaintiff-side cases — the profile of an operating company being sued rather than a patent asserter. The case, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Turing Video et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for Delaware. Cedar Lane Technologies is a widely documented patent-assertion entity that has filed numerous suits against technology companies; Vantage appears among multiple named defendants. The Delaware venue is notable, as Cedar Lane has filed across several districts.
No further tracked litigation, acquisitions, or parent-company ownership is reflected in the case data. The suit's technology focus (video/imaging-related patents, given Cedar Lane's typical portfolio) is consistent with Vantage's camera- and sensor-centric products, but no merits determination is implied here.