Quantum Systems Brand Guidelines: The Gilching Maker of Trinity Mapping & Vector Drones

A patent, four founders and a civilian plan.

Quantum Systems was founded in January 2015 and is based in Gilching, in the district of Starnberg west of Munich. The central figure is Florian Seibel, a former Bundeswehr officer and military helicopter pilot who studied and did research at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, English and German Wikipedia say. German Wikipedia adds that Seibel and Michael Kriegel, whom he met at the university, filed a patent in 2012 for the forerunner of the company’s first production drone, and that Seibel, Kriegel, Tobias Kloss and Armin Busse founded Quantum-Systems GmbH together. The Robot Report wrote in July 2026 that Seibel co-founded the company several years after registering a patent for a vertically launchable unmanned transition aircraft, and now calls him co-founder and co-chief executive.

The legal name carries a hyphen, Quantum-Systems GmbH; The Robot Report and most recent coverage write Quantum Systems, the spelling used here.

The first plan was civilian. English Wikipedia says Seibel set out to build small unmanned aircraft for civilian use and that the company first focused on agriculture. Its first product, the Tron, was released in March 2017: an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) fixed-wing drone that could carry sensors of up to 2 kg. German Wikipedia says it became the basis for later designs and was sold until the end of 2020.

Trinity, a mapping drone with tilting rotors.

The Trinity became the commercial flagship. Both Wikipedias say its first prototype flew in 2016 and series production began in 2018. German Wikipedia describes a battery-powered aircraft with a fuselage foamed to save weight, a span of 2.4 metres and three tilting propellers, carrying a payload of 0.7 kg. English Wikipedia names the Trinity F90+ as the mapping version and says the Trinity line comes in commercial and tactical models. In July 2026 The Robot Report illustrated its story with the Trinity Pro, which it called an eVTOL fixed-wing mapping drone.

The early work was mapping and surveying. German Wikipedia lists uses that include assessing plantations in North Sumatra in 2018 and in Florida in 2019, mapping opencast mines and ski areas in Norway and New Zealand, recording track damage for Deutsche Bahn in the FreeRail research project, surveying the ground at motorway building sites, lidar mapping of rainforest in Ghana and counting pelican nests in Louisiana. English Wikipedia says the Trinity was used for land surveying and agricultural and construction mapping in Germany, Indonesia, Ghana and the US, and later in Ukraine, including at Chernobyl.

In September 2020 Quantum-Systems began working with Auterion, the drone-software company, on the Vector, a portable drone for field use that English Wikipedia says is sold only to governments. German Wikipedia says the Vector, a fixed-wing aircraft with a span of 2.8 metres, and the shorter-range Scorpion tricopter share a carbon-fibre fuselage, and that their series production began in 2020.

Design and documentation.

Commercial drone makers sell instruments, not toys, and their pictures show it. The aircraft usually appear in the field rather than in a studio: a fixed-wing or vertical take-off airframe, often in white with a bright orange or another high-visibility colour, standing on gravel at a quarry edge, on a farm track or beside a pipeline before launch. The landscape matters as much as the machine, because the product being sold is the map, the model or the measurement that comes back.

Inspection and delivery makers have their own set pieces. Caged inspection drones are photographed inside boiler rooms, tanks, sewers and mines, lit only by their own lamps, with the protective frame as the defining shape. Delivery companies show a parcel being lowered on a line or dropped by a small parachute into a garden, a hospital yard or a field, so that the service, rather than the aircraft, carries the story.

People appear mainly as operators. A typical scene is a field crew in high-visibility clothing holding a tablet or a ground station, planning a flight or checking images on screen, with the drone small in the background. Brochures and websites follow the same order: the industry first, such as surveying, construction, mining, agriculture or public safety, then the workflow, then the hardware, with software screenshots and sample maps placed beside the aircraft.

Much of the industry still meets in person. Trade fairs such as Commercial UAV Expo and XPONENTIAL bring makers, software firms and operators to the same exhibition halls, where stands show airframes on plinths next to large screens of point clouds and orthophotos. In this guide we record what can be checked about each brand — who founded it, who owns it and what it says about where its products are made — and mark clearly what rests only on the company’s own word.

From farm mapping to a dual-use defence supplier.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 changed the company’s direction. English Wikipedia says that afterwards it developed into a dual-use drone company with a focus on defence. German Wikipedia says Vector drones were first sold to Ukraine for reconnaissance in April 2022 and that the Bundeswehr then bought some for itself; English Wikipedia lists Vector orders for Ukraine financed by Germany from August 2022, and military users including the Netherlands from October 2022, New Zealand, Romania, Spain and Australia. German Wikipedia says the company announced a production site in Ukraine in April 2024, alongside a service, training and logistics centre there, and that in March 2026 it was contracted to supply Ukraine’s National Guard with Strila interceptor drones, developed by the Ukrainian maker WIY Drones and put into production by Quantum Systems.

The company has been financed through venture rounds. English Wikipedia names backers including HV Capital, DTCP, Thiel Capital, Project A, Airbus Ventures, Omnes Capital and ScaleUp Fonds Bayern. The Robot Report reported on 6 July 2026 that a Series D round was co-led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus and Advent, with Balderton and HV Capital among existing shareholders taking part, and that Airbus Defence and Space agreed to deepen its collaboration with the company.

On where the drones are made, The Robot Report wrote that the company says it has expanded production across Germany, Ukraine, the US, Australia, Romania, the UK and the Baltic states. A US subsidiary, Quantum-Systems Inc., opened in Moorpark, California, in 2022. German Wikipedia says the workforce passed 1,000 by the end of 2025, and that in June 2026 the company showed the PULSE P19, an optionally crewed propeller aircraft, at the ILA air show in Berlin. Its software, MOSAIC UXS, is meant to link unmanned systems across domains, the company says.

For a design guide, Quantum Systems shows how a civilian mapping-drone brand can be reshaped by defence work within a few years while keeping a mapping line, the Trinity. Compare Wingtra, a Swiss maker of vertical take-off mapping drones, and Teal Drones, a US drone maker. For this guide we use an olive, a graphite and a sand with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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