# Re-inventing Forestry
Real climate impact through reinvented forestry management & machinery
Beyond being a great place for picking mushrooms, hiking, or just relaxing, the forest is key to our sustainable future. It is a great source of biomaterials and a carbon sink. And forestry – the caring for and tending of our cherished forests – can be vastly improved!
We have reinvented forestry from scratch. Instead of having 15-ton diesel-guzzling machines on the ground, we do it all from the air with lightweight and high-capacity electric drones.
This is one of the best and fastest ways to take a chunk out of the world’s carbon emissions while contributing to healthy and beautiful forests with more biodiversity.
Our approach also drastically improves the work environment for the operators taking care of our forests. Happier forestry workers and forests, happier planet!
Reinvent forestry with our great team
We are setting up a world class organization to build cutting edge technology that helps solve the climate and biodiversity crises. And we’re having a lot of fun doing it!
As a hands-on, experimental, and outdoorsy bunch, we focus on getting things done. We're quality-oriented, problem-solving, fact-based, kind, open and ask lots of questions. Sounds like a group you’d have a good time with?
There’s currently about 25 of us and we are looking to hire more experts in mechatronics, batteries, flight software and more.
Meet the AirForesters
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Truly my dream job: to combine forestry with cutting edge technology
Martin, Machine design and testing
Martin has a Machine Design Masters from KTH and did his thesis at AirForestry before joining us full time.
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We have a two-fold impact. 1: replace the heavy diesel-driven machinery with electric energy-efficient flying aircraft. And 2. forest is a very important contributor in absorbing carbon dioxide around the globe. If we can make that a little bit more efficient, that would be a great impact.
Mauritz, CTO and Cofounder
Mauritz's passion is solving the climate crisis through tech. He’s an electrification and sustainability researcher with a PhD in Physics and a career in sensors for autonomous vehicles.
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Be a part of designing everything, and learn about all the parts of the system
Linnea, AI and Automation
Linnea did her PhD in Autonomy and Control at KTH, and has done projects at Caltech, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency)
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Designing the airframe of the large drone was really cool - had to think about all the technical details from large to small!
Magnus, Systems architecture
Magnus has a PhD in Engineering Physics within kinetic energy storage and magnetic bearings. He has worked with deep tech projects from start to ISO-certification.
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The best project we’ve found to solve forestry and electrification
Jane, Caroline & Bengt Walerud, Founding Investors
Walerud Ventures is one of Europe's top early stage investors. Jane is an entrepreneur with 14+ startups under her belt, including being the first investor in Klarna, where she was Chairman and built the tech team. Bengt is a pricing and business strategy expert, an expert in choice modelling and predictive analytics, and has advised many leading Nordic corporations. Caroline has been part of three deep+green tech startup journeys before AirForestry and is now Executive Chairman and Cofounder at AirForestry.
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We’re building a world class organization
Paul, Head of Flight Operations
Paul has been President and CEO of Svensk Luftambulans, a large emergency helicopter organisation. He has been a professional pilot for 28 years and has experience building certified and safe flight organisations from scratch. He’s also a Leadership Coach focused on building strong and communicative teams.
Space to innovate
Our main office has good lab space for construction and indoor flight testing. It is located on Verkstadsgatan, just south of Uppsala's city center.
We also have a big barn lab and 10 000 hectares of forest for testing next to our co-founder’s solar-powered farm near Uppsala. We love the forest and want to spend lots of time in it. After all, the forest is our real customer!
We all meet in Uppsala at least 2-4 days per week (depending on the role). You choose freely where to work from on the remaining days - we have people commuting from all over.
We have regular offsite activities with everyone to team-build and workshop our strategy. Most recently we were at our cofounder’s farm. We have had a forestry school, visited Skogforsk’s automation lab, held workshops and cooked together. We like fun social activities, celebrating both small and large victories, and having a beer after a good day’s work.
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Assembling the drone for the first time
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Set the strategy and see the big picture 🙋♀️
We do an annual 2-day offsite activity and quarterly strategy workshops with the entire team. We've got a transparent organization where everyone contributes to setting the best path forward.
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Ownership - Options 🦄
Through our options programs, all employees are invited to be company owners and participate in the value we create together. -
Great labs and offices 🥽🪴
We have beautiful offices with labs and test spaces, an indoor flight space, and nearby forests for testing in the Uppsala area. -
30 days vacation plus 17 bank holidays/year, parental pay supplement 🏝
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Flexible work hours 🕰
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4,000 kr annual wellness allowance (friskvårdsbidrag) 🏊♂️ 🏋️♀️
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Occupational pension (Tjänstepension) and health insurance 💪
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Ping Pong tournaments and coaching from our cofounder! 🏓
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Hassle-free personal budget for anything that will make your work better 🎧
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Building a world class flight organization 🛸🚁
We have a leadership and communication coaching program which includes a professional Boeing 737 flight simulator 😎
About AirForestry
We build cutting edge forestry technology that helps solve the climate and biodiversity crises. Our mission is to contribute to a substantial positive change by creating better forests for everyone.
Forestry is a long-term project. What is harvested today was tended by previous generations, and what is planted today will be harvested by our grandchildren.
AirForestry provides solutions for thinning forests with the help of
electric drones that can harvest trees from the air. AirForestry reduces
the need for access roads, eliminates the consumption of diesel, and
provides a better working environment for those who work in the forest.
We have paying customers and great partnerships. See our main website for more information.
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