Changing times, California's best known VCs migrating from apps that ensure pizza arrives before it goes cold migrating toward things that move over the sea at speed.
Fresh from Regent then there is Splash, which recently succeeded in an exercise for the Marines that involving delivering not much of a package to a beach in the Indo-Pacific ~ requiring the recipient 'not to get their feet wet'. Watching the footage the guy nearly did, whereas up and running the flat-cat should be able to fly it down the street to the nearest pizza parlour too.
Besides Regent's electrified wing-in-ground effect aircraft and Splash, YCombinator has also backed Saronic, as has the US Navy to the tune of nearly $400 million for the deployment of two dozen larger maritime drones.
Unlike the US however in the UK procurement operates on more of a 'who you know not what you know basis' as described by Boris Johnson's brain, which was known as Dominic Cummings. The only intelligent life-form involved with his government, he would be turfed out because Boris' girlfriend didn't like him: the way it's worked since Anthony and Cleopatra.
Nonetheless as Victor Hugo wrote, nothing can stop an idea whose time has come... even if it's in China instead of here.
Ed. He didn't add the China bit, we did that.
