I Built a Machine to Delete Fog
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Emily Blythe, CEO of Pyper Vision, and it went out on 27 December 2025. It covers the NZVC portfolio company Pyper Vision.
- Guest
- Emily Blythe, CEO of Pyper Vision
- Date
- 27 December 2025
- Companies
- Pyper Vision
- Watch
- YouTube
- Listen
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Emily Blythe skipped university to launch a quad-bike accessory business, Flatpak, her first exit, then spent years trying to clear airport fog with drones. Coming from four generations of pilots, she now leads Pyper Vision, which pivoted from fog dispersal using chemicals and drones to fog forecasting after finding a flaw in the underlying science. The episode covers deep tech R&D, the pivot, and how Pyper Vision now predicts fog with 84 percent accuracy.
- A four-generation legacy in aviation.
- Skipping uni to build Flatpak, her first exit.
- The painful pivot: when the science does not work.
- How Pyper Vision now predicts fog with 84 percent accuracy.
Companies in this episode
Pyper Vision, aviation, deep tech, weather tech, pivots, flight delays, New Zealand founders