Ornadyne

Ornadyne is a Los Angeles hard-tech startup building autonomous flapping-wing UAVs (ornithopters) that look and fly like real birds for covert reconnaissance and surveillance. Its near-silent, AI-powered, man-portable drones are engineered for low acoustic and visual signatures, hour-class flight times, and natural bird-like flight, contrasting with easily detected quadcopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Founded by Geourg Kivijian (CEO, ex-NASA JPL and Astrolab) and Armen Arakelyan (CTO, ex-SpaceX Starship), the company is a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company operating in the hardware, robotics, drones, aerospace, and defense space. It is a hardware/defense company with a marketing website and no public developer API surface at this time.

Ornadyne is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Drones, Robotics, Aerospace, and Defense.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyDronesRoboticsAerospaceDefenseHard TechUAVSurveillanceY Combinator

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ornadyne Domain Security

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Access & Security 1

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Website
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ornadyne
name: Ornadyne
description: Ornadyne is a Los Angeles hard-tech startup building autonomous flapping-wing UAVs (ornithopters) that look and
  fly like real birds for covert reconnaissance and surveillance. Its near-silent, AI-powered, man-portable drones are engineered
  for low acoustic and visual signatures, hour-class flight times, and natural bird-like flight, contrasting with easily detected
  quadcopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Founded by Geourg Kivijian (CEO, ex-NASA JPL and Astrolab) and Armen Arakelyan (CTO,
  ex-SpaceX Starship), the company is a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company operating in the hardware, robotics, drones, aerospace,
  and defense space. It is a hardware/defense company with a marketing website and no public developer API surface at this
  time.
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- Robotics
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- Defense
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- type: Website
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ornadyne-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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