About
Abraham Bachrach wrote the software that lets a drone fly itself through a forest with no pilot and no GPS. As a doctoral student at MIT he and Adam Bry built a fixed-wing aircraft that navigated autonomously using a laser range finder, years before commercial drones could avoid a tree. He followed that work to Google X's Project Wing in 2012, then co-founded Skydio in 2014 to put the same capability onto cheap smartphone-grade chips and cameras. As chief technology officer he has carried that from the first consumer drone through to the X10 now flown by American public-safety agencies and every branch of the Department of Defense — roughly 22,000 airframes in military use — at a company valued at $4.4 billion in April 2026. He read electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley and took his doctorate at MIT in 2013.
Beyond investing
- Education
- Read electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley and took his doctorate at MIT in 2013, in the Robust Robotics Group.
- More
- As an MIT doctoral student he and Bry built a fixed-wing drone that navigated autonomously with a laser range finder, years before commercial drones could avoid obstacles. Worked on Google X's Project Wing drone-delivery programme from 2012 before leaving to start Skydio.
From Abraham's own website — common ground for a warm intro.
Co-founder & CTO at Skydio
Intro paths
In turn, Abraham can intro founders to Skydio's investors below.
Skydio's investors · 15
Co-founders at Skydio
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Abraham Bachrach?
- Abraham Bachrach wrote the software that lets a drone fly itself through a forest with no pilot and no GPS. As a doctoral student at MIT he and Adam Bry built a fixed-wing aircraft that navigated autonomously using a laser range finder, years before commercial drones could avoid a tree. He followed that work to Google X's Project Wing in 2012, then co-founded Skydio in 2014 to put the same capability onto cheap smartphone-grade chips and cameras. As chief technology officer he has carried that from the first consumer drone through to the X10 now flown by American public-safety agencies and every branch of the Department of Defense — roughly 22,000 airframes in military use — at a company valued at $4.4 billion in April 2026. He read electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley and took his doctorate at MIT in 2013.
- Where does Abraham Bachrach work?
- Abraham Bachrach is Co-founder & CTO at Skydio.
- What companies did Abraham Bachrach found?
- Abraham Bachrach founded Skydio.
Paths to reach Abraham
People who overlapped with Abraham at the same organization — a shared school or employer with one of them is a warm way in.
