Spaero Technologies was founded in 2023 by Dr. Chris Dougherty shortly after finishing his Ph.D. in Aeronautics at Caltech. Through those rigorous years, Dr. Dougherty learned by doing, however humbling at times, from an unconventionally diverse set of project experiences that included the experimental simulation of Martian winds to assist Ingenuity well-before reaching Mars to co-founding a heavy-lift drone startup in development of a tri-rotor vehicle capable of carrying more payload than it weighs to the reproduction of the cavitation event of a snapping shrimp inspired claw mechanism (to name but a few).

Spaerotech™ seeks to leverage these diverse project experiences to bring a novel integrated approach grounded in first principles to emerging challenges in the 21st century.