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Startup · United States

Enhanced Radar

HQ United StatesFounded 20241-10 employees

Intelligent systems will redefine how aviation moves people and goods both safely and efficiently. We're developing platforms that coordinate, understand, and augment human expertise in the world's most complex transportation domain.

Website

Funding1 round · $7.0M

Equity raised
$7.0M
Latest
$7.0MSeed · May 13, 2026

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Systems3

ATC

An application for listening to live air-traffic-control radio.

Maturity not rated

Y4

An AI model for interpreting aviation communications.

Maturity not rated

Y4-small

A lightweight preview version of the Y4 aviation AI model.

Maturity not rated

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

  • Eric Button

    co-founder and CEO

Sources6

Profile2

  1. 1

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “employee_range: 1-10 (profile: 5)”
  2. 2

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · country, Organization · kind

    “{"country": "USA", "hq_iso2": "US", "id": "b9d693ed-7670-49f1-b94e-f855bd6fce16"}”

Systems2

  1. 3

    Enhanced Radar · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website, System

    “Intelligent systems will redefine how aviation moves people and goods both safely and efficiently. We're developing platforms that coordinate, understand, and augment human expertise in the world's most complex transportation domain.”
  2. 4

    Enhanced Radar · Supports System

    “We’re introducing a new model that expands upon our research to-date in aviation-specific large language models, and our first ground-up, foundation model reimagined for the aviation environment. Y4 was trained *de novo* on 215 billion aviation tokens (audio + text + geospatial), allowing for robust performance across varying scenarios.”

Funding1

  1. 5

    SVPost · Supports Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Initialized Capital”

People1

  1. 6

    finance.yahoo.com · Supports Role

    “But Enhanced Radar co-founder and CEO Eric Button, also a Pilatus PC-12 and Gulfstream G280 pilot, describes the app-which he said uses a "lightweight" version of the company's proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) model-as a side project.”

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