BIVOUAC INDUSTRIES

Unmanned systems that support infrastructure development with human-robot teams — proven in extreme terrain on Earth, built for extraterrestrial surfaces.

Pre-Seed · Raising $8M
StagePre-Seed
Analog SitePatagonia
StatusHiring Technical Co-Founder
Mission Brief

Unmanned systems for infrastructure development on extraterrestrial surfaces

Our mission: unmanned systems — ground, aerial, and subterranean UxS — that support infrastructure development with human-robot teams on extraterrestrial surfaces. The long-term goal: human-UxS teams building expedition outposts, "bivouacs," on extraterrestrial surfaces, proving the core technologies NASA JPL needs for astronaut bases.

From Field Test to Outpost
1

Extreme-terrain field validation

High-altitude, high-wind analog testing in Patagonia, run with Comisión de Auxilio de El Chaltén.

2

NASA analog mission engagement

Bivouac's own version of NASA's analog mission model — testing systems on Earth in conditions that stand in for space — validates the tech against space-relevant requirements.

3

Extraterrestrial surface infrastructure

Human-robot teams building expedition outposts on extraterrestrial surfaces.

Operational Domains

Expeditions

Domain 01

Extreme-Terrain Field Testing

High-altitude, high-wind autonomous flight testing in Patagonia, run as an analog mission with Comisión de Auxilio de El Chaltén — proving the close-contact autonomy stack in terrain a helicopter can't fly and a consumer drone can't survive. First expedition.

Domain 02

Close-Contact Human-UxS Autonomy

Ground, aerial, and subterranean unmanned systems working in lock-step with humans in extreme, GPS-denied conditions — the core autonomy stack behind every domain we operate in.

Domain 03

Extraterrestrial Surface Infrastructure

The long-term target: human-robot teams building expedition outposts — "bivouacs" — on extraterrestrial surfaces, proving the core technologies NASA JPL needs for astronaut bases.

The Ask

$8M to prove the core tech NASA JPL needs for astronaut bases

$8M Pre-Seed Round
1

Hire the technical co-founder

and core engineering team — closing Bivouac's clearest gap.

2

Prove the core tech NASA JPL needs for astronaut bases

starting with the Patagonia flight test — proving how humans and ground, aerial, and subterranean UxS work together to build bivouacs and survive extreme conditions on Earth.

3

Formalize a NASA analog mission

engagement — a Bivouac-run analog mission, in the spirit of NASA's own program, as our bridge to space-relevant validation.

These three milestones convert Bivouac from a pre-prototype, LOI-stage company into one with field-tested, NASA JPL-relevant hardware, a validated space technical partnership, and a complete founding team — the natural inputs to a Series A conversation.