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Plexus
Techstars '25Techstars '25Techstars '25Omaha, US · Founded 2025 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Plexus Aero provides a software data stack and monitoring platform designed for hardware fleets and physical systems. The platform enables teams managing drones, devices, and hardware-based systems to deploy, monitor, and debug their hardware similar to how software teams manage code deployments.
Also known as Plexus Aero · Plexus Aerospace, Inc.
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Plexus is a data storage and dashboard product for hardware teams, made by Plexus Aerospace, Inc. of Omaha. It ingests, stores and visualizes telemetry from drones, robots and IoT devices, and notifies teams by email, Slack or webhook when a metric crosses a threshold or a device goes offline. The stated aim is to remove the need for hardware startups to build and operate their own dashboard and monitoring infrastructure.
The product includes its own time-series database, Plexus Time Series, built for machine data, with raw readings retained for three years, one-minute rollups for 90 days and hourly rollups for five years. Teams that already operate their own databases can connect PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, MySQL and QuestDB, with InfluxDB partly supported, and Prometheus can push data via remote_write. PX4 flight logs can also be imported. Data can be queried back out over an HTTP API returning JSON for any time range, with bulk export to CSV and Parquet described as forthcoming.
Dashboards cover fleet-wide views that highlight the unit deviating from normal, and comparison charts such as fault rates between hardware revisions. Users can describe a desired chart in natural language rather than writing a query language, build it on their own telemetry, set alerts on it, and embed panels in their own product, site or customer portal. The public site also offers an interactive demo based on a synthetic 12-drone delivery fleet.
Business model
Plexus sells a hosted, subscription software product directly to hardware teams. Customers connect devices or existing databases, and pay by plan tier; a free tier supports up to 3 devices with 7 days of history and requires no payment card, while the paid "Founding 50" plan is priced at $299 per month (stated as normally $499) on a six-month contract and includes all devices, full history, alerts and sharing.
Recurring monthly subscription software revenue, with a free entry tier and a paid plan at $299 per month (listed as normally $499) billed on a six-month contract.
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Market position
Plexus presents itself as a hardware-specific alternative to general-purpose observability and dashboarding tooling, explicitly comparing itself with Grafana and targeting teams that would otherwise assemble storage, dashboards and alerting themselves.
The site positions Plexus against Grafana by noting that Grafana is a mature, plugin-rich dashboard builder for which the user supplies storage and writes dashboards and alerts, whereas Plexus bundles storage, generates an initial dashboard from the data devices send, and ships alerts including device-offline detection; it also states that both can run on the same database. Other stated points of difference are natural-language chart building without a query language and a time-series store purpose-built for machine data with no infrastructure for the customer to operate.
Technology
The stack centers on Plexus Time Series, a managed time-series database for machine data, with tiered retention of raw readings and rollups. Ingestion works with anything capable of an HTTP request: a Python SDK for Linux boards such as Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson, JSON over HTTP for ESP32, Arduino and similar microcontrollers, and PX4 flight log import. Read connectors exist for PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, MySQL and QuestDB, with partial InfluxDB support, and Prometheus remote_write for ingestion. Outputs include an HTTP query API returning JSON, embeddable dashboard panels, and alert delivery via email, Slack and webhooks. The listed environment also includes Linux and Docker.
Go-to-market
Plexus is sold through its website with self-service onboarding: a free tier that requires no payment card, an interactive no-signup demo that renders a prospect's company into the product, and a limited paid "Founding 50" offer at a discounted monthly rate on a six-month contract. Onboarding is developer-led, via a Python SDK (pip install plexus-python), plain JSON over HTTP for microcontrollers, or connectors to existing databases.
Hardware startups and engineering teams operating drones, robots, sensors and other IoT or embedded devices, including those running Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson and other Linux boards, ESP32 and Arduino microcontrollers, and PX4-based flight systems.
Geography
The company behind the product, Plexus Aerospace, Inc., is identified as based in Omaha.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Plexus do?
- Plexus provides hosted time-series storage, dashboards and alerting for drone, robot and IoT hardware fleets.
- Who are Plexus's investors?
- Plexus's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Plexus headquartered?
- Plexus is headquartered in Omaha, US.