FLYING WHALES Chooses Box for Intelligent Content Management

Box, Inc. , the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced that FLYING WHALES selected Box as its unified platform to future-proof how it manages unstructured data across its organization. Supported by the French and Canadian governments for its development of environmentally-friendly airships, FLYING WHALES is headquartered in France, with subsidiaries in Montreal. On its mission to develop sustainable transport solutions for remote regions, the organization has adopted Box’s AI-powered content platform to unlock unstructured data, driving innovation and business impact at scale.

“Box has been a game changer in transforming our data management strategy, becoming our single source of truth and optimizing collaboration and efficiency across our teams,” said Anthony Courtois, CIO at FLYING WHALES. “Box Hubs with Box AI empowers our teams to quickly access crucial information from our content, helping us strengthen our expertise in the aerospace industry. Looking ahead, we’re keen to expand our use of Box’s Intelligent Content Management platform to better extract intelligence and insights from the metadata across our unstructured content; PDFs, videos, images, and more.”

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FLYING WHALES first selected Box in 2024 to manage its vast amounts of data, generated through extensive testing across diverse systems and partners. The organization has recently expanded its use of Box to:

• Curate and publish content across the enterprise with Box AI for Hubs;
• Meet rigorous aerospace compliance and cybersecurity standards, critical for FLYING WHALES and their partnerships with other aerospace companies and government entities;
• Enhance information governance with automated classification policies, which allow granular structuring to handle sensitive engineering documents;
• Enable independent control over encryption keys and centralize sensitive content with Box KeySafe.

“In today’s AI-first era, sustainable digital-native organizations like FLYING WHALES are uniquely positioned to leverage AI to redefine how work gets done in their industries,” said Samantha Wessels, SVP, General Manager for EMEA at Box. “As a strategic technology partner, Box helps FLYING WHALES unlock the untapped value of unstructured data – which makes up 90% of enterprise content – through our AI-driven platform. We look forward to continuing to help FLYING WHALES drive productivity gains and accelerate innovation to achieve critical business outcomes.”

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FLYING WHALES is the only aeronautical company selected for the 2025 cohort of the French Tech Next40 program, which brings together France’s 40 most successful start-ups with global leadership potential. The organization is developing a transport system designed to boost economic growth in land-locked regions, while sharply cutting the environmental footprint of cargo.

Box empowers many of the largest and most regulated enterprises around the world to transform business processes with enterprise AI, power their workplace collaboration, and protect valuable information.