Aeryon Labs Inc. was founded in 2007 to design and manufacture small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems for aerial sensing applications. Their team brings both commercial and technical backgrounds to this venture. Their previous experience includes digital video compression, networking, and radar systems at companies including Raytheon, L3-Wescam and Cisco Systems. The founding team worked together at other Waterloo high-tech companies including Research in Motion, VideoLocus and PixStream.