Drone Investment

courtesy Anra Technologies AUVSI’s Novus Unmanned occasion, run by the Investorfest Venture Acceleration Program, brings the finest new drone tech to traders. The occasion will happen in San Francisco on November 1.  The at some point program will embody keynote addresses on the way forward for the drone trade and …

New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced his state’s partnership between NASA and the Northeast UAS Airspace Integrations Research Alliance, and the $30 million funding NY has made in the event of a 50-mile drone hall and new drone testing facility. The funding is the newest New York has made …

  By Sgt. Bobby Yarbrough [Public domain] Leading navy and industrial drone firm AeroVironment, Inc. introduced a brand new product in the present day – as The Drone Girl Sally French, writing for MarketWatch, factors out that the corporate’s inventory has doubled within the final yr. The new product is …

Yuneec Typhoon H Funding rounds for drone corporations have gotten greater and larger as the trade matures.  A brand new report from CB Insights names the trade’s high 10 funding offers since 2012. Some of the high recipient corporations provide no shock – DJI takes the #1 (and ties for …

Berkeley-based drone producer 3DR could also be again in the recreation: the firm introduced $53 million in Series D funding on Thursday.  This announcement comes lower than a yr from 3DR’s final inflow of $26.7 million final June. The new spherical included each new fairness and conversion of debt fairness: how …

The Startup Showdown is again this yr at AUVSI’s Xponential 2017 – an occasion you’ll be able to’t miss for the sheer “wow, really?” reactions that come from listening to about new know-how from cutting-edge drone corporations. The sixteen semi-finalists will probably be narrowed all the way down to the highest …

An knowledgeable panel of judges from prime funding companies has made the primary lower.  Of the 65 drone startups who submitted their purposes to The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) to compete within the Startup Showdown at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL 2017 convention, the record has been winnowed to 16 …

Image: Holger Harms, CC by-SA 3.0 Do you know what’s inside your drone?  As the FAA regulation shift seems to indicate a takeoff for the commercial drone industry, it isn’t only drone manufacturers who could reap the benefit.  With products that range from the chips inside to the vision sensing …