| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.08.2026 | PCL Construction captures every phase of 10,500-seat Augusta Arena Construction with DroneDeploy | Augusta's new $250 million civic arena will replace the original arena and deliver $1.6 billion in regional impact when it opens in 2027.
Our general superintendent and lead superintendent are some of the most tech-savvy people I work with,... |
| 18.08.2026 | PCL Construction captures every phase of 10,500-seat New Augusta Arena with DroneDeploy | Augusta's new $250 million civic arena will replace the iconic James Brown Arena and deliver $1.6 billion in regional impact when it opens in 2027.
Our general superintendent and lead superintendent are some of the most tech-savvy people I ... |
| 16.07.2026 | DroneDeploy and Shepherd launch data-backed premium savings for safer construction | Six-year analysis finds DroneDeploy users experience 44% fewer claims and carry 48% lower loss rates. Ground and Aerial together drive 51% loss rate reduction.
DroneDeploy is the first partner where we can quantify the combined effect of Gr... |
| 05.05.2026 | PCL Construction and DroneDeploy expand partnership to standardize reality capture across 1,000+ active projects | PCL teams have logged 3 million+ 360 walks, 10,000 drone flights and 45 million images across 2,000 projects on the DroneDeploy platform.
We needed a single platform where every project, every team and every region operates the same way. Ou... |
| 22.04.2026 | DroneDeploy Surpasses 20 Trillion Sq Ft of Visual Site Data, the Largest Visual Dataset in Construction | With four AI agents active and robotics missions up 160% year over year, 13-year dataset now foundation for industry's most comprehensive AI and robotics system
We’ve been using DroneDeploy since 2018 and the platform has become central to ... |
| 31.03.2026 | DroneDeploy Partners with Cairn to Utilise Reality Capture Across Housing Development Portfolio | Enterprise-wide aerial and ground reality capture program streamlines progress tracking, trench verification and safety oversight across residential portfolio.
DroneDeploy allows us to bring all of our visual site data into one place and tr... |
| 27.03.2026 | AI-Powered Insurance Drives Construction Boom, Accelerates Infrastructure Development | Shepherd, an AI-native insurtech, secured $42 million to revolutionize construction and infrastructure insurance. Its platform uses AI and real-time data from construction sites, cutting underwriting times from weeks to hours. This innovati... |
| 27.03.2026 | Shepherd Secures $42M to Insure AI's Physical Backbone | Shepherd secured $42 million in Series B funding. This boosts its total to $67 million. The AI-native insurtech underwrites critical infrastructure for artificial intelligence. AI's rapid expansion requires massive data centers, power plant... |
| 25.03.2026 | Shepherd: $42 Million Raised For AI-Native Insurance Platform Powering Infrastructure Boom | Shepherd, an AI-native commercial insurance platform focused on construction and infrastructure projects, announced it has raised $42 million in a Series B funding round led by Intact Private Capital, with participation from Spark Capital, ... |
| 24.03.2026 | Insurance tech startup Shepherd raises $42M to underwrite the physical layer of AI
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| 28.10.2025 | DroneDeploy Unveils Agentic AI and Robotics Products at Horizons 2025 | Reality capture leader delivers agentic AI suite, major accuracy and 3D upgrades.
AI agents don’t just process data, they reason. Progress AI understands construction sequences. Safety AI knows how equipment should be used. Inspection AI id... |
| 09.09.2025 | DroneDeploy Hits Break-Even, Raises Strategic $15M to Fuel Construction Progress AI Product | Reality capture leader is investing earnings into its AI and robotics products
DroneDeploy is the clear category leader in reality capture – profitable, proven and in control of its future.”
— Rory O’Driscoll, Partner at Scale Venture Partn... |
| 22.07.2025 | DroneDeploy Redefines Progress Tracking in Construction with Launch of Progress AI | New AI agent automates progress tracking from drone and 360 camera data, delivering results in minutes, not days, at fraction of cost of existing solutions.
Progress AI is like having an extra superintendent – capturing everything, seeing e... |
| 23.05.2025 | Commercial drone automation set to soar across industries | - |
| 20.05.2025 | DroneDeploy and Prime Air Launch Elevate Scholarship Program to Forge New Career Pathways in Age of AI and Robotics | Elevate trains next generation of drone professionals – offering free Part 107 prep, FAA support and access to AI-era careers in aviation, robotics and mapping.
The drone delivery sector represents a dynamic intersection of aviation, roboti... |
| 23.04.2025 | VEERUM launches VisOps to redefine how industrial teams operate with visual data | VEERUM introduces VisOps (visual operations), a new technology category delivering the primary visualization layer for industrial operations. CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA, April 23, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- VEERUM, a global SaaS leader in vis... |
| 24.01.2025 | Drone GIS mapping market grows with tech advancements | - |
| 16.12.2024 | Cemex Ventures: Interview With Mateo Zimmermann Gonzalez About The Construction-Focused Investment Firm | Cemex Ventures is a firm that believes in the power of technology and entrepreneurship to disrupt the construction industry. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cemex Ventures investment manager Mateo Zimmermann Gonzalez to learn more about the construct... |
| 01.10.2024 | DroneDeploy Revolutionizes Safety Risk Detection in Construction with Launch of Safety AI | Safety AI is available now for all customers of DroneDeploy Ground
Safety AI identifies OSHA safety risks on sites captured with DroneDeploy, helping GCs prevent incidents, reduce EMR and insurance premiums, and win more work.
Out of everyt... |
| 11.07.2024 | Following the AI boom, drones are monitoring the building of new data centers across Northern Europe. | Following the AI boom, drones are monitoring the building of new data centers across Northern Europe.
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The world is witnessing an all time high of data center construction as a result of the gr... |
| 14.05.2024 | Commercial UAV Expo Announces Path to Leadership Event Scholarship Program Emphasizing "Drones for Good" | Commercial UAV Expo Scholarship Announcement
Scholarship to provide university students with the opportunity to attend Commercial UAV Expo
PORTLAND, Maine, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Organizers of Commercial UAV Expo announced the launch ... |
| 27.03.2024 | Commercial UAV Expo Announces the 2024 Advisory Board Members | Advisory Board Announced
Commercial UAS industry leaders will provide guidance for landmark 10th edition by serving on Commercial UAV Expo Advisory Board
PORTLAND, Maine, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Organizers of Commercial UAV Exp... |
| 12.02.2024 | Trimble and DroneDeploy Introduce Premier Positioning Accuracy and Streamlined Workflow for Reality Capture from Drones | Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the integration of the Trimble Applanix POSPac CloudⓇ post-processed kinematic (PPK) GNSS positioning service, featuring CenterPointⓇ RTX, with the drone mapping and data collection capabilities of Dro... |
| 15.03.2023 | Ways to Win in Climate Software #2: Align to Revenue | Welcome to “10 Ways to Win in Climate Software,” an Energize series defining the playbook for sustainability SaaS entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, catch up on our series opener and the Ways to Win countdown:
As we near the end of our ... |
| 04.03.2023 | 4 ways product and industrial companies can harness the promise of the metaverse | Amidst a global inflection point for business and society, the metaverse is beginning to scale. Seven in 10 executives said it would positively impact their organization; four in 10 consider it a breakthrough, as recently shown in an Accent... |
| 23.02.2023 | Ways to Win in Climate Software #3: Activate the Climate Talent Honeypot | Welcome to “10 Ways to Win in Climate Software,” an Energize series defining the playbook for sustainability SaaS entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, catch up on our series opener and the Ways to Win countdown:
From the migration to remo... |
| 26.01.2023 | Ways to Win in Climate Software #5: The Power of Climate Product-Led Growth | Welcome to “10 Ways to Win in Climate Software,” an Energize series defining the playbook for sustainability SaaS entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, catch up on the series opener and our Ways to Win countdown:
As the race to transition ... |
| 12.01.2023 | Ways to Win in Climate Software #6: “Own the Problem” | Welcome to “10 Ways to Win in Climate Software,” an Energize series defining the playbook for sustainability SaaS entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, catch up on the series opener and the first four Ways to Win in our countdown:
At Energ... |
| 05.12.2022 | Ways to Win in Climate Software #8: Price to Scale | Welcome to “10 Ways to Win in Climate Software,” an Energize series defining the playbook for sustainability SaaS entrepreneurs. In case you missed it, catch up on the series opener and the first two Ways to Win in our countdown: #10: When ... |
| 08.11.2022 | DroneDeploy Completes Acquisition of StructionSite to Create Unified Reality Capture Platform | “Our team is ready to hit the ground running to deliver on something so many of our customers have been asking for: a reality capture platform that is unified and intelligent, but also automated – so they can quickly start to see the benefi... |
| 02.11.2022 | Map Expert – профессиональный заработок для владельцев беспилотников | Привет! На связи KR Digital. Сегодня расскажем о собственном стартапе – платформе, которая позволяет любому владельцу дрона выполнять коммерческую съемку под заказ за счет полностью автоматизированного процесса. Над технологией пришлось пор... |
| 13.10.2022 | DroneDeploy to Buy StructionSite | DroneDeploy, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an aerial reality capture platform, acquired StructionSite an Oakland, CA-based provider of ground reality capture solutions.
The amount of the deal, which is expected to close in late Octo... |
| 12.10.2022 | DroneDeploy to Acquire StructionSite to Unify Reality Capture for Air and Ground | “I am thrilled that with the DroneDeploy and StructionSite teams joining forces, our combined technology, resources and expertise will deliver the unified experience our construction customers and the wider industry have been asking for,” s... |
| 10.08.2022 | What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Climate Software | On Sunday, the U.S. Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act. If passed by the House of Representatives, the bill will mark a tremendous milestone for investments in climate technology and infrastructure, providing $369 billion to turbocha... |
| 18.02.2022 | Queensland drone mapping startup Emesent raises $32 million Series A | Brisbane drone mapping and data analytics startup Emesent has raised US$23 million (A$32m) in a Series A to fuel its global ambitions.
The round was led by local firm Perennial Partners, with international investors Tiger Global and TELUS V... |
| 28.12.2021 | Using Digital Twins And Drones To Capture Physical Enironments | Using digital twins and drones to caputure physical environmentsgetty |
| 18.08.2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Wendy’s plans 700 parking lot ghost kitchens; Knowde nets $72m | AFN‘s weekly Agrifoodtech Digest is our selection of the top funding, partnership, and product launch headlines reported by us and other sources these past seven days.
🇺🇸 Burger chain Wendy’s plans 700 ghost kitchens by 2025 in partnership ... |
| 13.08.2021 | Weekly Wrap #61: Cloud and Proud; Tech Lobbyists & WCs (women capitalists) | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 12.08.2021 | DroneDeploy Accelerates Jobsite Automation With Acquisition of Rocos | Rocos’ technology will enable robotics to drive large-scale automation for construction, energy and agriculture
Leading enterprise drone data company, DroneDeploy, announced it has acquired Rocos, a New Zealand-based robotics software compa... |
| 15.07.2021 | Utility-Scale Solar Development & Construction: What’s Now & What’s Next? | On Friday, June 26, we hosted a webinar to discuss the current challenges and opportunities in utility-scale solar development and construction. We brought together a panel of diverse perspectives across the industry — from renewables provi... |
| 24.05.2021 | Announcing Energize Growth Fund I | When we launched Energize Ventures Fund I in 2016, we were investing in the thesis that the energy and industrial sectors are undergoing a massive digital transformation in a world increasingly focused on sustainability. We believed (and st... |
| 03.05.2021 | Global e-bike Innovator Zoomo Driving Electrification of Last-Mile Delivery, Backed by new AirTree investment | NEW YORK, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian born e-bike innovator Zoomo, announces today it has secured $12 million from existing and new investors, led by top tier Australian VC, AirTree, as they expand into new markets and invest in ... |
| 03.05.2021 | Global e-bike Innovator Zoomo Driving Electrification of Last-Mile Delivery, Backed by new AirTree investment | NEW YORK, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian born e-bike innovator Zoomo, announces today it has secured $12 million from existing and new investors, led by top tier Australian VC, AirTree, as they expand into new markets and invest in ... |
| 09.04.2021 | Houston health center working with new study that uses app to track long-term COVID-19 effects | Aided by technology, medical sleuths at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are tracking the long-term effects of COVID-19 as part of a national study.
At the heart of the study is an app that allows patients who have s... |
| 09.04.2021 | Over $1.4M in prizes awarded at Rice University's student startup competition | In its 21st year, the Rice Business Plan Competition hosted 54 student-founded startups from all over the world — its largest batch of companies to date — and doled out over $1.4 million in cash and investment prizes at the week-long virtua... |
| 09.04.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a guest column on the challenges of spac... |
| 12.03.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a guest column about addressing the digi... |
| 12.03.2021 | 7 can't-miss events at virtual SXSW featuring Houston speakers | Many Houstonians were hoping to be able head out to Austin next week for SXSW 2021, but now they don't have to venture out from behind their computer screens.
SXSW has pivoted to virtual this year, but the online schedule still features all... |
| 11.03.2021 | Houston experts: Diversity is key to venture capital success | Venture capital firms across the board have a goal of driving a return on their investments, but getting a good ROI and factoring in diversity and inclusion into the equation are not mutually exclusive.
In fact, on a panel at the HX Venture... |
| 11.03.2021 | The future of Houston's economy shines bright, according to new report | The Houston metro area shed 141,300 jobs last year — the worst one-year job loss ever recorded in the region — and the area's unemployment rate peaked at 14.3 percent last April. But, according to a new ranking, there's at least one bright ... |
| 05.03.2021 | Photos: Here's a sneak peek at The Ion Houston's construction progress | The Ion Houston is expected to open its doors this year, and the building's exterior is close to completion. Now, the construction team is focusing on interiors and then tenant build outs.
The 270,000-square-foot coworking and innovation hu... |
| 19.02.2021 | Tech company to grant funds to Houston-area BIPOC small business owners | Comcast, the telecom, media, and entertainment conglomerate, is awarding $1 million in grants to small businesses in Houston owned by entrepreneurs who are Black, indigenous or people of color (BIPOC).
In all, 100 grants of $10,000 each wil... |
| 19.02.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, why a tech company chose Houston for its... |
| 18.02.2021 | NASA and Johnson Space Center celebrate unprecedented Mars Perseverance landing | While Houston is in the depths of a historic freeze, some spacey locals are celebrating a major cosmic milestone. NASA — and Johnson Space Center, locally — are toasting the landing of Perseverance, the amiable roving vehicle, on Mars.
The ... |
| 04.02.2021 | DroneDeploy raises $50 million to collect and analyze visual data with drones and robots | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
DroneDeploy, a platform that offers businesses ac... |
| 04.02.2021 | DroneDeploy Secures $50M to Accelerate Development Beyond Drones and Solidify Global Market Leadership | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading enterprise drone data company DroneDeploy today announced it has raised $50 million in Series E financing. The round was led by existing investors Energize Ventures and AirTree, with ... |
| 04.02.2021 | DroneDeploy Lands $50M Series E Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, DroneDeploy, a drone software startup, on Thursday said it raised $50 million in a funding round.
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| 04.02.2021 | DroneDeploy raises $50 million to collect and analyze visual data with drones and robots | DroneDeploy, a platform that offers businesses access to commercial drone operators to capture professional-grade imagery of an environment and carry out data analysis, has raised $50 million in a series E round of funding.
The raise comes ... |
| 04.02.2021 | Why We’re Continuing to Invest in DroneDeploy | Energize Ventures is excited to share a new milestone in our partnership with DroneDeploy, the leading enterprise drone data company. Energize co-led the company’s $50 million Series E financing with AirTree. Other investors in the round in... |
| 08.12.2020 | Electrifying Everything: The Future is Bright for Solar | Electrification is a key theme to Energize’s investment thesis. We invest in software and business model innovations, many of which directly contribute solutions towards decarbonization by means of electrification. In this blog series, we’l... |
| 06.12.2020 | How The Global Pandemic Became An Inflection Point For Drones | |
| 13.10.2020 | DroneDeploy moves beyond drones to let industries analyze visual data captured at ground level | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Since its inception in 2013, DroneDeploy has serv... |
| 13.10.2020 | DroneDeploy moves beyond drones to let industries analyze visual data captured at ground level | Since its inception in 2013, DroneDeploy has served to help companies access commercial drone operators and create professional-grade imagery of the built environment from the skies above. But at its annual DroneDeploy Conference today, the... |
| 13.10.2020 | DroneDeploy teams with Boston Dynamics to deliver inside-outside view of job site | DroneDeploy, a cloud software company that uses drone footage to help industries like agriculture, oil and gas and construction get a bird’s-eye view of a site to build a 3D picture, announced a new initiative today that combines drone phot... |
| 18.09.2020 | These are the 10 most promising energy tech startups, according to judges at Rice Alliance forum | This week, energy startups pitched virtually for venture capitalists — as well as over 1,000 attendees — as a part of Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship's 18th annual Energy and Clean Tech Venture Forum.
At the close of the t... |
| 17.08.2020 | How robotics and automation could create new jobs in the new normal | This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: Automation and jobs in the new normal.
Depending on who you ask, AI and automation will either destroy jobs or create new ones. In reality, a greater push toward automation w... |
| 21.07.2020 | Taranis banks $30m Series C with tech giants Hitachi, Micron among new investors | Agricultural imaging and analytics firm Taranis has raised $30 million in a Series C round co-led by Vertex Growth — an affiliate of Singapore sovereign fund Temasek — and Orion Fund, a subsidiary of Malaysian conglomerate, the Kuok Group.
... |
| 06.07.2020 | Funding for agri-drone companies in a time of corona: futurism or folly? | AgroScout was in the final stages of negotiating a late-seed-stage funding round when coronavirus struck. The Israeli remote sensing startup watched venture dealmaking grind to a halt. But the team managed to eke out $3 million in commitmen... |
| 02.04.2020 | The space in between: The stratosphere | Tess Hatch Contributor
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| 23.11.2019 | Why We’re Continuing to Invest in DroneDeploy | Energize Ventures is excited to share a new milestone in our partnership with DroneDeploy, the leading enterprise-grade drone software solution. Energize participated via a follow-on investment in the company’s $35 million Series D fundrais... |
| 15.11.2019 | Enterprise-Grade Drone Software Company DroneDeploy Raises $35 Million In Funding | Leading enterprise-grade drone software solution DroneDeploy announced it raised $35 million in Series D funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners
DroneDeploy — a leading enterprise-grade drone software solution — announced it closed $35 mil... |
| 15.11.2019 | DroneDeploy raises funding to build out its enterprise drone software platform | The company, which has now raised $90M, will expand operations to Australia
In the business world, drones are becoming ubiquitous, going from a "nice to have" to a "must have" in many industries. In fact, the FAA expects... |
| 13.11.2019 | DroneDeploy raises $35 million for drone management and logistics tools | DroneDeploy, a startup developing a holistic cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform, today announced that it’s closed a $35 million series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Energize Ventures, AirTree, Emergence Capital, Sc... |
| 13.11.2019 | DroneDeploy Raises $35M in Series D Funding | DroneDeploy, a San Francisco, CA-based enterprise-grade drone software solution, closed a $35m Series D funding round.
The round, which brought DroneDeploy’s total funding to $90m, was led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation fro... |
| 13.11.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 – DoorDash, Hive, Convoy, DroneDeploy, and Freshworks | Hola! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, November 13, 2019.
Hive raises $10.6 million Series A to bolster its product development. Hive, a New York-based software startup and developer of productivity platfor... |
| 13.11.2019 | DroneDeploy raises $35 million for drone management and logistics tools | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
DroneDeploy, a startup developing a holistic cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform, today announced that it’s closed a $35 m... |
| 13.11.2019 | DroneDeploy Announces $35M Series D |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Enterprise-grade drone software solution, today announced it closed a $35 million Series D round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
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| 27.06.2019 | AI and crowdsourcing fueling mapping innovation to meet smart city and mobility needs | Google and Apple loom so large over the field of digital mapping that it’s understandable why it may seem they represent the beginning and the end of this market. But the demands of a wide range of services such autonomous vehicles and smar... |
| 27.06.2019 | AI and crowdsourcing fueling mapping innovation to meet smart city and mobility needs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google and Apple loom so large over the field of digital mapping that it’s understandable why it may seem they represent the beginning ... |
| 27.06.2018 | AirTree Ventures backs US drone mapping startup DroneDeploy in US$25 million Series C round | Just a few weeks on from Blackbird Ventures leading a $10 million Series A round for Sydney-founded drone mapping startup Propeller Aero, AirTree Ventures has backed US competitor DroneDeploy’s US$25 million ($34 million) Series C round.
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| 26.06.2018 | DroneDeploy Raises $25M Series C Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, DroneDeploy today announced that they have raised $25 million in Series C funding.
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| 26.06.2018 | DroneDeploy Raises $25M in Series C Funding | DroneDeploy, a San Francisco, CA-based cloud drone data platform, raised $25m in series C funding.
The round, which brings the total amount of equity investment raised to date to over $56m, was led by the Invenergy Future Fund, with partici... |
| 26.06.2018 | DroneDeploy raises $25 million to help drone operators capture and analyze aerial data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
DroneDeploy, an image analysis platform for commercial drone operators, has raised $25 million in a series C round of funding led by th... |
| 26.06.2018 | DroneDeploy raises $25 million to help drone operators capture and analyze aerial data | DroneDeploy, an image analysis platform for commercial drone operators, has raised $25 million in a series C round of funding led by the Invenergy Future Fund, with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, Emergence Capita... |
| 26.06.2018 | DroneDeploy Raises $25M Series C | California-based DroneDeply announced it has raised $25M in series C funding, bringing its total funding to date to $56M. The round was led by the Invenergy Future Fund with participation from AirTree, one of Australia’s largest venture cap... |
| 26.04.2018 | Monsanto’s Venture Arm Could Be Winding Down, Sources Suggest, As Company Looks for New Talent | *Updated April 27, 2018, 15:35 to add more context around future of MGV.*
Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture arm of Monsanto, has lost all of its dedicated staff after former managing director John Hamer, former investment director... |
| 14.12.2017 | Drones: Farmers Are Looking for True Autonomy Now That the Hype is Over | As the hype fades and more growers test out drones on their own operations, what they really want from drone-focused technology is becoming clearer and raising the bar for startups in the field.
Ewan McFarlane, head of digital agronomy at O... |
| 04.12.2017 | Why scaling to the U.S. is way more complicated than it looks | Earlier today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event, founder Timo Rein took the stage alongside venture capitalists Andy McLoughlin of the early-stage firm Uncork Capital and Thomas Korte of the accelerator AngelPad.
The grouping wasn’t ac... |
| 22.07.2017 | Big opportunities in drone software: $565 million and climbing | This year drones have turned from buzzword to a mature technology, bringing value across many industries (see the recent Economist long read on that) and representing an interesting investment opportunity. A number of VC firms have already ... |
| 18.04.2017 | With DroneDeploy’s Fieldscanner, pilots can create maps as they fly | Flying drones to inspect a farm, construction site, or any other venue from overhead can generate a huge amount of data. It takes time, though, for drone users to upload and turn this high-resolution data into maps, graphs or business intel... |
| 16.03.2017 | The Next Generation of Drone Technologies For Agriculture | The well-documented potential for drones to revolutionize agriculture reached fever pitch in 2015.
The robotic technology captured the imagination of investors, entrepreneurs, and farming businesses alike as a means to take over certain tas... |
| 25.01.2017 | Blackboard cofounder Michael Chasen takes CEO reins at PrecisionHawk | Commercial drone tech venture PrecisionHawk has a new CEO—again. Red Hat Inc. cofounder Bob Young, who has served as PrecisionHawk’s CEO since July 2015, is handing over the reins to another veteran of enterprise software, Michael Chasen, a... |
| 14.10.2016 | Ag Industry Brief: Olam Innovation Prize Open for Applications, DroneDeploy Launches Free Directory, Can Cannabis Join CSAs? | Applications Open for Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security
The Olam Prize is one of four initiatives launched for Olam’s 25th anniversary in 2014, which also includes a scholarship program, a foundation and the Building Sustainable Fu... |
| 08.09.2016 | Enterprise Software Startup DroneDeploy Closes $20M Series B Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco’s DroneDeploy, a cloud-based software startup serving the commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market, closed on a $20 million Series B round late last month... |
| 29.08.2016 | In a first, FAA allows PrecisionHawk to fly drones where pilots can’t see them | The Federal Aviation Administration has given permission to a drone tech startup called PrecisionHawk to fly its unmanned aerial vehicles beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) in U.S. airspace.
The exemption represents a first in the coun... |
| 25.08.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: FarmShots Raises Seed Round – exclusive | FarmShots Raises Seed Round
After just completing the Y Combinator accelerator program, North Carolina-based satellite imagery startup FarmShots has closed a seed round after attracting local angel investors. Founder Josh Miller said that k... |
| 25.08.2016 | DroneDeploy Adds to 2016’s Drone Funding Total with $20m Series B | Software for drones provider DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by tech investment firm Scale Venture Partners and ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey’s fund. Venture studio developers High Alpha Capital also partici... |
| 24.08.2016 | DroneDeploy raises $20M to let businesses leverage drones | The funding comes a week before the implementation of Part 107, the FAA's commercial drone rules
Editor's Note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark C... |
| 24.08.2016 | DroneDeploy raises $20 million to help any business put drones to work | A San Francisco-based startup called DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding to grow their drone data management platform.
The drone tech startup closed its Series B deal just before the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration i... |
