Exclusive: Hyfix raises $15 million to build a U.S. alternative to DJI’s drone dominance

Hyfix Spatial Intelligence just raised a $15 million seed round to create an American-made “brain” for drones and robots, Fortune learned exclusively. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup is developing a single autonomous-systems chip that folds flight control, high-precision positioning, secure communications, and onboard compute into one U.S.-manufactured system-on-a-chip. This replaces the mix-and-match electronics that power most drones today. Craft Ventures led the round, joined by Catapult Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Finality Capital, and hard-tech investor Sky Dayton. (Craft, notably, was cofounded by David Sacks, who until recently was President Trump’s crypto and AI czar.) “There is currently no end-to-end American supply…