About SkyFire AI
Skyfire AI leverages artificial intelligence to deploy autonomous drones for emergency response, significantly reducing response times to critical situations. The team was credited with saving 13 lives through search and rescue missions and delivering critical medicines across North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Hardware agnostic, SkyFire’s AI tech enables public safety agencies to run autonomous drones and tactical drone swarms, slashing response times to just 2-4 minutes, versus common human response time of 7-30 minutes.
Don Mathis
CEO & Co-founder
Don leads Skyfire AI, developing autonomous and swarming drone systems for public safety and defense. Prior to SkyfireAI, he was SVP of Growth at Comcast NBCUniversal. He has been Founder, CEO and COO of three early-stage companies with successful exits, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, and started his career at McKinsey. A Navy veteran of both active and reserve service, Don reached the rank of Commander, was deployed three times post-9/11, and served with the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command as well as flying with an anti-submarine maritime patrol squadron.
