American Bazaar · Mar 2025
Covers the launch of Odin, Flux Auto’s autonomy platform for controlled environments like warehouses, farms, and mines, and notes the company’s retrofit approach and funding background.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Flux Auto is a Bengaluru-based autonomous mobility startup that retrofits AI-powered autonomy onto existing vehicles, especially for controlled environments such as warehousing, agriculture, mining, and logistics. Its flagship platform is Odin, a universal autonomy platform designed to automate existing fleets without requiring vehicle replacement.
Primary product
Odin, a Universal Autonomy platform for retrofitting autonomy onto existing vehicles
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Bangalore, India
Team size
11-50
Industry
Automotive
Sub-industry
Autonomous mobility / autonomous vehicle systems / fleet retrofitting
Offices
United States
India
Sweden
Business model
B2B
hardware+software
enterprise sales
custom deployments
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$6.1M
Latest round
Seed · May 2024
Latest amount
$6M
Seed
Jan 2021
People & investors
Leadership
Pranav Manpuria
Founder & CEO
Abhishek Gupta
Founder and COO
Shilpaj Bhalerao
Vice President Of Technology
Avinash Datta
Investor & Advisor
Work & culture
Public descriptions emphasize building complex real-time autonomy systems, solving hard engineering problems, and enabling employees to have outsized impact in a small, rapidly growing team.
Compensation
Public salary data is limited. Internshala lists some roles and internships with approximate pay ranges, including AI/ML engineer roles at ₹3.5L–₹12L/year, test ops engineer at ₹4L–₹4.2L/year, and internships typically around ₹10k–₹40k/month.
Benefits
Informal dress code
5 days a week
Flexible work hours
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to use enterprise/custom pricing for autonomy retrofits and deployments.
Differentiators
- —Retrofitting autonomy onto existing vehicles instead of replacing fleets
- —Focus on controlled environments for faster commercialization
- —Cost-sensitive sensor approach versus expensive LiDAR-heavy stacks
- —Universal autonomy platform (Odin) across multiple industries
- —Targets already-deployed commercial and industrial vehicles
Technology
GitHub
Postman
AWS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
RDS
MongoDB
Redis
GitLab
API Gateway
Docker
Linux
Linux kernel
Python
C
React
NVIDIA
Git
ClickUp
Matlab/Simulink
Customers
Industry-leading clients
Warehousing operators
Agriculture operators
Mining operators
Logistics operators
Fleet owners / commercial vehicle operators
Competitors
Waymo
Tesla
Uber ATG
Perrone Robotics
Visionary Machines
PlusAI
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
~$3M-$5M annual revenue (Exa estimate: $3.43M)
Estimated monthly visits
2.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Mar 2025
Co-founder Abhishek Gupta says Flux Auto built a Universal Autonomy Platform and introduces Odin for controlled environments.
Y Combinator (LinkedIn post) · Mar 2025
Y Combinator publicly congratulates Flux Auto on the launch of Odin and says it can be deployed on vehicles in controlled environments to retrofit existing fleets.
Times of India · May 2024
Mentions Flux Auto's self-driving software for forklifts and warehouse robots and says the company has raised nearly $6M.
Upstox · May 2024
Summarizes Pranav Manpuria's inclusion and notes Flux Auto's product focus and roughly $6M in funding.
Jobs and careers at Flux Auto
9 jobs at Flux Auto
Engineering Manager
On-site
Product & Engineering
San Francisco Office
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Head of Hardware Design
On-site
Product
San Francisco Office
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
DevOps Engineer
On-site
Software Engineering
San Francisco Office
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Customer Support
On-site
Customer Success
San Francisco Office
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Customer Success Engineer
On-site
Customer Success
San Francisco Office
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Product Engineer, Front End
On-site
Software Engineering
San Francisco Office
9mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Platform Engineer
On-site
Software Engineering
San Francisco Office
10mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Head of Revenue
On-site
Growth
San Francisco Office
10mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Software Engineer, Agentic Products
On-site
Software Engineering
San Francisco Office
10mo ago
On-site
Full-time