The sky’s not the limit. It’s the infrastructure.
Hoverblox is the company behind pioneering modular, autonomous, solar-powered aerial platforms that can remain airborne for days, carrying surveillance, connectivity and heavy-lift payloads beyond the reach of drones, aircraft and satellites.
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Current aerial systems are built on compromise
Battery powered drones run out of endurance in hours. Aircraft and helicopters need crews, runways and fuel.
Satellites cost hundreds of millions and cannot be maintained or updated.
Between the ground and orbit sits an opportunity that has not been grasped, until now
Hoverblox is persistent, reconfigurable, and deployable anywhere, from a truck.
Battery powered drones run out of endurance in hours. Aircraft and helicopters need crews, runways and fuel.
Satellites cost hundreds of millions and cannot be maintained or updated.
Between the ground and orbit sits an opportunity that has not been grasped, until now
Hoverblox is persistent, reconfigurable, and deployable anywhere, from a truck.
Engineering discipline forged from motorsport where milliseconds and milligrams decide everything.
Meet the leadership
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Patrick Lane-Nott
A chartered systems and technology engineer with more than 30 years across Formula 1, aerospace, future flight and advanced mobility. Patrick chairs the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Lighter-Than-Air Working Group, shaping industry standards for next-generation aviation. He specialises in turning complex, multi-disciplinary engineering into deployable solutions, and translates deep technology into clear narratives for technical, commercial and investor audiences.
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Dan Reitzik
A serial technology founder known for building category-defining companies. Dan co-founded and led DMG Blockchain Solutions (TSXV: DMGI), where he raised more than $125M and built a fully operational mining and data-centre campus powered by an 85 MW substation. He later founded and led TerraZero Technologies, acquired in 2023. Across every venture, his focus has been commercialising emerging technology at scale.
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Andrew Sammut-Alessi
Twenty years at the elite level of motorsport, including multiple world championships with the dominant Red Bull Formula 1 team, and most recently Head of Technical Operations at Aston Martin F1. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with full P&L ownership across concept, supply chain, manufacturing and delivery — he brings precision, compliance and delivery under pressure to everything Hoverblox builds.
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Dr John Otter
An aerodynamicist specialising in propulsion, power generation and aircraft performance. John completed a Rolls-Royce–sponsored PhD at Cranfield, then joined the University of Cambridge as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate working on low-carbon turbine research. His work spans structural analysis, computer vision, optics and signal processing.
One platform, many missions, total flexibility.
Hoverblox will keep station for many days, carrying up to 500 kg, and can shift from surveillance to communications to logistics just by changing payload modules, not airframes. Operators can add endurance, lift, sensors or edge compute by joining multiple Hoverblox. The aircraft will scale to the mission instead of the mission scaling to the aircraft.
Defence & surveillance
Persistent ISR, ground force protection and resupply, without runways or crews. Heavy payloads, edge compute at altitude, deployable in hours.
HAPS & communications
A cell tower in the stratosphere. Direct-to-device 5G/6G and Earth observation from 1–20 km: the layer between towers and satellites.
Logistics
Heavy-lift aerial freight that bypasses roads, congestion and broken supply lines. Moving modular cargo pods with no runway or crane.
- Endurance measured in days not hours
- Up to 500 kg payload, scalable across a connected fleet
- Up to 90% lower energy use (solar + battery)
- As little as CAD $1.50 per kg per hour
- Truck-deployable: no runway, no hangar required
- Modular and field-serviceable
Connect platforms together to multiply capability.
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Link Hoverblox to stack payload and extend coverage. The same modular logic that reconfigures a single platform also scales a fleet. A global fleet of 11,000 Hoverblox could extend high-speed connectivity to the 5 billion people still offline.