Defendant

Vantage Robotics, LLC

1 case as defendant.

Cases
1
Active
1
0 closed
Filed
2022
Top venue
D Del Judge Andrews
1 case

Company profile

Vantage Robotics, LLC — commonly "Vantage Robotics" — is a privately held unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) developer founded in 2013 by Tobin Fisher and Joe van Niekerk and headquartered in San Leandro, California (PitchBook; Crunchbase/CB Insights). It is venture-backed rather than publicly traded; CB Insights puts total funding at roughly $18M, while a February 2025 company/partner press release states "over $50M" raised. In February 2025, India-listed drone maker ideaForge Technology Ltd. made a $1.83M minority investment via a compulsorily convertible promissory note, explicitly characterized as not an acquisition (ideaForge exchange filing; Inc42; SUAS News). Reliable public headcount and revenue figures are not available; third-party revenue estimates exist but are unverified.

Vantage designs and manufactures small ("nano" and "micro") UAVs and related subsystems. Named products include the Snap aerial-camera drone and the Vesper, plus portable ground control stations and micro-gimbal camera subsystems. The company markets NDAA-compliant hardware and holds U.S. Department of Defense "Blue sUAS" status, with stated customers including the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, FBI, NASA, DEA, and CNN (company profile; Sensors and Systems; DroneLife).

Patent-litigation posture: the tracked data show Vantage with 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant, which is the signature of an operating company being targeted rather than a patent asserter. The sole tracked suit is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Vantage Robotics, LLC, filed October 26, 2022 in the District of Delaware before Judge Andrews. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian-domiciled, well-documented non-practicing entity that asserts acquired patents (many traced to Intellectual Ventures) and has filed hundreds of suits; it is classified as an NPE by Stanford's NPE Litigation Database and Unified Patents. This case sits in Delaware rather than the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas that Cedar Lane frequently uses, and no litigation activity by Vantage as a plaintiff appears in the tracked data. No parent-company or funding-source detail specific to this suit is available.