About
A marketplace for the airspace above your roof.
Drone delivery is finally moving from pilots to fleets, and every fleet needs a place to land. Most commercial rooftops sit idle. AirParcels connects the two sides — verified owners on one side, verified operators on the other, with escrow and contracts handled end-to-end.
Mission
Make every commercial roof bookable in five minutes.
The bottleneck on drone delivery is real estate, not technology. The FAA cleared Part 137 + Part 135 commercial drone operations years ago, but every operator still negotiates rooftop access one building at a time — slow, opaque, lawyer-heavy.
We think rooftops should be as bookable as warehouse space: standardized terms, transparent pricing, verified counterparties, automated escrow. An owner with a 5,000 sqft rooftop in the Fashion District should be able to capture recurring revenue the same way a self-storage operator does — list, accept, get paid.
Our job is to be the marketplace layer underneath all that. We don't own drones; we don't own rooftops. We connect the two parties, verify everyone is who they say they are, hold the funds in escrow, and execute the contracts.
Why now
Three things converged in the last 18 months.
Regulatory clarity
The FAA's Part 135 expansion plus state-level routing approvals (CA SB-1059, others in flight) created the first nationwide framework that lets operators scale beyond single-pilot proofs of concept.
Operator economics
Major logistics players (Zipline, Wing, Matternet, Amazon Prime Air) have reached unit economics that pencil at scale — but they all bottleneck on landing infrastructure. Every mile of route requires a vertiport at each end.
Owner demand
Commercial real estate margins have compressed. Rooftop revenue used to be the domain of cell towers and HVAC. Drone landing pads are the next category and, unlike cell-tower contracts, they're inherently month-to-month — fitting the short-cycle expectations of post-2022 commercial leasing.
Where we're going
Los Angeles first. Then every dense corridor.
Phase 1 — Los Angeles (now). We launched in ZIP 90015 (South Park / Fashion District / DTLA core). Mixed-use commercial and industrial rooftops, with the highest density of medium-sized buildings (5,000–30,000 sqft footprints) in the city.
Phase 2 — LA Metro + neighboring counties. San Diego, Long Beach, Orange County. Then the Bay Area corridor. Adding ownership pre-verification via county assessor data so owners can claim properties without a manual document review.
Phase 3+ — Other dense US metros. Chicago, Boston, Miami, NYC. Each one is a separate ingestion project: county assessor data, building footprints, zoning overlays. The marketplace layer doesn't change — only the underlying property catalog.
Team
Building this in public, with two founders + a few advisors.
Founder bios and the full team roster will live here once we close the seed round and bring on full-time hires. Want to talk to a founder directly? Reach out.