Investor Relations · Seed Round

The real-time operating system for aviation maintenance

Incumbents record maintenance after the fact. AirNxt is where the work happens — the live system of record for airworthiness, maintenance and compliance.

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The live AirNxt fleet dashboard
Live product · operators in beta
$20BTotal addressable market
~180kAddressable aircraft
LiveProduct, operators in beta
2025Built from a clean slate
The problem

The work happens on paper. The system finds out days later.

The mechanic works on paper. The inspector signs paper. Someone types it in after the fact. That gap is where the industry's losses live — in one of the lowest-margin businesses in the world.

Aircraft downtime
$15–20M

Per year, per grounded tail

If just one aircraft in a fleet of fifteen is unavailable across the year, it compounds into $15–20M of lost value.

Flight delays
$15k–250k

The cost of a single delay

Fees, rebooking and passenger care for one delay — often traced back to a maintenance record found too late.

A low-margin reality
3.9%

Industry net margin

Aviation runs on razor-thin margins. Every avoidable loss on paperwork comes straight off the bottom line.

The solution

Stop recording the work. Run it.

AirNxt isn't a layer on top of legacy software — it replaces the system of record. The compliant record becomes the byproduct of doing the work, not a second job done afterwards.

01

Work happens in AirNxt

The mechanic signs off at the aircraft, the inspector certifies in the same flow, and CAMO watches compliance update live.

02

The record is the byproduct

The e-logbook and airworthiness records exist the moment the work is done. No batch entry, no reconciliation.

03

Replacing the system of record

Paper logbooks, work-orders and disconnected back-office software retire — not another integration to maintain.

04

AI-native by design

AI agents collaborate with engineers to prevent problems rather than react to them after an aircraft is grounded.

Why now · the wedge

Start in the underserved mid-market. Expand to enterprise via the network.

AirNxt lands with Tier 3–4 operators the incumbents ignore, then grows account value as owners invite their MRO partners onto the same live record — turning a single-user tool into a multi-customer network.

Today

Single-user model

AirNxt is the internal operating system for the aircraft owner — one source of truth for maintenance, CAMO and ops.

Next

Multi-collaborator network

Owners invite their MRO partner onto the platform to sync data live — expanding revenue per asset and creating switching costs.

The moat

A compounding network effect

Every operator and MRO added makes the shared record more valuable — the wedge into Tier 1–2 enterprise accounts.

The market opportunity

A $20B market, digitising now

Global aviation asset management and MRO software is growing toward $35–40B by 2030 at ~12–14% CAGR as fleets expand and digital transformation accelerates.

TAM
$20B

Global aviation asset management & MRO software.

SAM
$4B

Mid-market: Tier 3–4 airlines, business aviation, rotorcraft, fleet-GA and independent MROs. ~180k addressable aircraft and ~3k MRO facilities.

SOM
$50M

Five-year obtainable share, consistent with our near-term growth trajectory and continued expansion.

TAM$20B
SAM$4B
SOM$50M

Sources: Oliver Wyman Global Fleet & MRO Forecast; Mordor Intelligence; MarketsandMarkets; Honeywell Global Business Aviation Outlook; GAMA; Cirium / IBA fleet data.

Traction

Real operators, real airworthiness programmes

A live product with a committed launch fleet — and a team that has held CAMO authority over active aircraft.

10+Operators in beta — CAMOs, charter groups & regional airlines
6Letters of intent from organisations managing active fleets
12Aircraft in the committed launch fleet
17+Years of combined aviation & CAMO expertise
Meet the team

Built by the industry, for the industry

The people who lived the problem — a former CAMO post-holder, a full-stack scale engineer, and an operator who has run 100+ person teams.

Mahmoud El Sawah — placeholder photo

Mahmoud El Sawah

Founder & CEO
The expert insider

Former CAMO Deputy Post-Holder — the person our buyer used to be. Oversaw 50+ complex aircraft transitions at 100% compliance.

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Karim Sami

Engineering Lead
From zero to scale

Built scalable full-stack applications for 5+ high-growth startups, including core features for a recruitment platform at 20k users.

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Hesham Fekry

COO
The process architect

Scaled 100 direct reports in Cairo and 40 in India. Led large-scale software development and QA (ISO 26262) at Valeo.

The round

Raising a seed round to scale to 150 aircraft by 2027

Capital goes into product depth, a repeatable go-to-market engine, and the platform hardening required for enterprise. The full model — ARR trajectory, unit economics, cap table and detailed use of funds — is in the investor data room, shared after a short intro call.

Where the capital goes

Product development— new modules & predictive AI
Growth, revenue & retention— the outbound machine
Platform & security— enterprise hardening
Operations— scaling the team
3× sales hires5 flagship case studiesGlobal airshow presence150 aircraft in 2 years
Round size
$X.XM
Target ARR
$X.XM
ACV / payback
$XXXk
Use of funds
XX%

Full financials are shared with qualified investors after a brief introduction.

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Mahmoud El Sawah
Founder & CEO, AirNxt
melsawah@airnxt.ai(+971) 4 244 2279Arenco Offices DIP, Building 3, Office 417, Dubai, UAE
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