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| Sep 18, 2019 | Evolver Robotics gets $70m from China’s local government in Qingdao | Premium
Beijing-based intelligent companion robot developer Evolver Robotics has secured RMB500 million ($70.50 million) in a strategic investment from the local government in eastern China’s port city of Qingdao even as the startup is expl... |
| Dec 7, 2018 | China’s Tsinghua University to invest $584m in Japanese AI, robotics ventures | Premium
China’s Tsinghua University plans to invest 4 billion yuan ($584 million) in Japan’s artificial intelligence and robotics ventures over the next few years, Nikkei Asia Review reported.
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| Feb 15, 2018 | CommonSense Robotics raises $20M to automate grocery delivery | The company uses AI to help grocery stores deliver their orders faster and cheaper
If you had asked me a few years ago if I'd be willing to have someone else select my groceries for me, and deliver them to my door, I'd have said, "No w... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Autodesk looks to future with investments in 3D robotic drones and IoT as a service | When you think of Autodesk, you probably think of desktop software and traditional manufacturing, but the company is trying hard to change that perception, and today it announced the first three investments from its $100 million Forge Fund,... |
| Jun 3, 2016 | Drone On: 3D Robotics Filing Reveals $45M Financing Plan | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After a painful restructuring earlier this year, Berkeley, CA-based 3D Robotics appears to be raising additional capital.
The high-profile drone startup, which raised $50 mill... |
| Jun 2, 2016 |
3D Robotics Raises $27M In Ongoing Round
| Unmanned aerial vehicle maker 3D Robotics, which was started in San Diego but now is based in Berkeley, has raised nearly $27M as part of what looks to be an ongoing funding round. According to a regulatory filing by the company, the drone ... |
| Feb 4, 2016 | 5D Robotics Raises $5.5M to Commercialize Technology for Vehicles | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Carlsbad, CA-based 5D Robotics said it has raised $5.5 million in a seed round from private investors to accelerate the commercial development of its automation technology in ... |
| Jan 7, 2016 | 3DR Makes It Easier To Take Exactly The Drone Video You Want | 3D Robotics (3DR) is making it a lot easier for the owners of its Solo drones to take exactly the video they want. The company is introducing a couple of new functions for its drone (and especially the smartphone apps that control is) at CE... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Is a drone landing on your holiday shopping list? (with video) | Article content
Reports are mixed on just how much the drone market will grow in coming years, but they all agree in the next 10 years, it will be well into the billions of dollars. |
| Oct 7, 2015 | An In-Depth Report on FAA Drone Regulations and their Impact on Ag | For HUVRData, a drones-based data analytics service startup from Texas, championing the development of federal drone regulations authorizing commercial drone use has been a core part of its strategy.
Considering that HUVR was one of the fir... |
| Sep 1, 2015 | 3D Robotics Launches 3DU To Promote The Use Of Drones In Education | 3D Robotics (3DR), the largest North American consumer drone manufacturer, today announced the launch of its 3DU educational program.
3DU aims to bring drones to more schools — ranging from K-12 to postgraduate programs — by making both har... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Ghost Drone Maker EHANG Lands $42M Series B, Fills Key Executive Roles | Drone startup EHANG has scored a $42 million Series B to develop its technology and launch new products. Led by GP Capital, the round also included participation from returning investors GGV Capital, ZhenFund, and PreAngel, as well as Lebox... |
| May 14, 2015 | With a July launch, Europe’s largest Kickstarter still won’t show working drones | Cyrus Farivar reader comments 67 with 54 posters participating
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| May 12, 2015 | Erle-Copter, Ubuntu Core Edition: the first drone with apps | Erle Robotics reader comments 17 with 15 posters participating, including story author
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| Apr 24, 2015 | 3D Robotics Expands Series C, $64 Million in Total | Berkeley-based drone company, 3D Robotics, announced an expansion of their Series C round on April 23. The company reported an additional $14 million dollars, bringing their Series C from $50 million to $64 million. New investors include We... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | 3DR Raised Additional Financing; Closes Series C Round at $64M | 3DR, a Berkeley, CA-based manufacturer of consumer drones and founder of an open drone software platform, raised an additional $14m in Series C round of venture capital financing.
The company initiated the round with $50m in investment led ... |
| Apr 22, 2015 | AgTech Industry Takes in $1.04 Billion in Q1 | After the agriculture technology (AgTech) sector raised a total of $2.36 billion in 2014, the big question was whether or not the sector would continue to pick up momentum in 2015. Judging by first quarter performance, we’re feeling optimis... |
| Apr 13, 2015 | 3D Robotics’ New Solo Drone Promises To Make Aerial Videography Easy | With the Solo, 3D Robotics (3DR) is launching its most advanced consumer drone yet. It’s a ready-to-fly quadcopter that combines everything the company has learned from its earlier products — and those of its competitors — into a single pla... |
| Mar 26, 2015 | 3D Robotics Launches DroneKit, Its API For Building Drone Apps | 3D Robotics, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer, today announced the launch of DroneKit, its open-source API for writing drone apps. Because 3D Robotics has always taken a platform approach, DroneKit will work with any drone that use... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Internet of Things | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
From smart factories to wearable fitness devices, the connected home to air pollution monitoring, future retail to re-envisioning urban parking, discover how the internet of t... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | 3D Robotics Raises $50M in Series C Funding | 3D Robotics Inc., a Berkeley, CA-based company that makes drone systems for everyday exploration and business applications, raised $50m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Qualcomm, a global leader in 3G and next-generation mobile tec... |
| Feb 27, 2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 2/27/15 | Iotera, Knowmail, Getable, Xero, Twenty20, Metamarkets, Leankor, Branch Metrics, Silent Circle,
Seed stage
Iotera, a real-time GPS tracking device that can be used to track a whole host of things, raised a $1 million round of seed funding r... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | 3D Robotics Raises $50M To Develop Mobile-Enhanced Drones | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Berkeley, CA-based 3D Robotics has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Qualcomm, the San Diego wireless industry giant.
The two companies plan to work togeth... |
| Feb 26, 2015 | 3D Robotics Taps Qualcomm For $50M Series C And Mobile Tech | The race to build the best drone is on and 3D Robotics is today announcing its latest round of financing that it hopes will enable the company to keep its commanding position in the marketplace. As part of the funding, the drone upstart als... |
| Feb 26, 2015 |
3D Robotics Lands $50M For Drone Technology
| 3D Robotics, the unmanned aerial vehicle maker behind the IRIS, X8, and many other drone vehicles, said Thursday that it has raised $50M in a Series C venture funding round. The funding was led by Qualcomm Ventures. The company--which has m... |
| Feb 25, 2015 | Сергей Топоров, LETA Capital: Как продать инвестору робота и заработать на нём Статьи редакции | Старший менеджер по инвестициям фонда LETA Capital Сергей Топоров написал для ЦП колонку о том, почему стартапам, занимающимся роботами, сложно убедить инвесторов вложить свои средства в их проекты и как представить разработку так, чтобы уб... |
| Feb 19, 2015 | 2014 Roundup: Top Drone Deals | Look — up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…a drone monitoring your farmland?
Despite current regulations keeping drones grounded — the Federal Aviation Administration strictly prohibits commercial drone use in U.S. airspace unles... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | 3D Robotics Opens Its Flight Control App For Drones To Developers | 3D Robotics, the largest U.S.-based drone manufacturer, today announced the launch of its open-source Tower flight control app for drone copters and planes on Android phones and tablets. The app gives users a few new ways to talk to their d... |
| Jan 11, 2015 | Talking Drones With 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson | Drones were one of the hot topics coming into CES, but the show itself didn’t actually feature any standout products. Many of the new drones we saw were little more than knockoffs of DJI’s extremely successful Phantom Vision line (though th... |
| Dec 30, 2014 | This Indiegogo-funded drone startup just raised $10M from VCs before its campaign has even ended | The Ghost drone, which has raised more than six times its campaign goal on Indiegogo weeks before its deadline, has raised some even bigger funds.
Ehang, the company behind Ghost, is announcing it has raised $10 million in new funding to ex... |
| Dec 30, 2014 | This Indiegogo-funded drone startup just raised $10M from VCs before its campaign has even ended | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Ghost drone, which has raised more than six times its campaign goal on Indiegogo weeks before its deadline, has raised some even bi... |
| Dec 30, 2014 | EHANG, Maker Of Ghost Drone, Raises $10M Series A Led By GGV Capital | Though the market is still in its early stages, drone startups are becoming increasingly popular among venture capital firms. One of the latest companies to benefit is EHANG, maker of Ghost Drone, which users can control by tilting their sm... |
| Dec 23, 2014 | Sifteo’s intelligent cubes go open-source after disappointing commercial run | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Sifteo, a system of intelligent gaming cubes launched with significant fanfare in 2011, has gone open-source.
Founded in 2009 by MIT Me... |
| Dec 23, 2014 | Sifteo’s intelligent cubes go open-source after disappointing commercial run | Sifteo, a system of intelligent gaming cubes launched with significant fanfare in 2011, has gone open-source.
Founded in 2009 by MIT Media Lab graduates David Merrill and Jeevan Kalanithi, Sifteo set out to promote a vision of computers bei... |
| Dec 14, 2014 | Hands-On With The 3DRobotics Iris+ Drone | The 3DRobotics Iris+ is the one that got away. Literally. I’ve flown my fair share of drones lately — everywhere from over empty football fields and beaches to small rivers. They all came back unharmed. But not the Iris+. It’s the first dro... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Gear For The DIY Maker: ReadWrite’s 2014 Gift Guide | Makers and DIY hardware hackers know better than anyone that technology is most awesome when you know how to use it.
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Smartphones: ReadWrite’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Smart Home Gadgets: ReadWrite’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
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| Nov 12, 2014 | Drones Perform the Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous Work | There are a lot of names that we give to drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles, remotely piloted vehicles, and unmanned aircraft systems are most technically what they are, although sometimes they might be called by their design style, such as q... |
| Oct 21, 2014 | Have Drone Will Travel: Slow-Moving Regulators Force Innovation Overseas | Drones are leaving the U.S. for greener pastures, according to several media outlets (e.g., WSJ and Bloomberg). In response to slow-moving U.S. domestic policy on commercial drone use, innovators are moving abroad, to jurisdictions where re... |
| Sep 16, 2014 |
3D Robotics Gets Investment From Richard Branson
| San Diego-based 3D Robotics, the drone technology developer led by Chris Anderson and Jordi Munoz, has scored a high profile investment from Sir Richard Branson, according to the firm. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | Richard Branson invests in drone company 3D Robotics | Richard Branson.
Richard Branson is already pretty well-versed in the airline industry. Now the business mogul is investing some dough into drones.
Drone startup 3D Robotics announced today that it has received an undisclosed investment fro... |
| Jun 11, 2014 | Drone.VC Is A VC Fund For Flying, Swooping, And Zooming Robots | While there are a few hardware-only funds and many funds will invest in drones if backed into a corner, Drone.VC looks to be the first fund that caters specifically to the robo set. Created by founder of Hacker Dojo, David Weekly, the fund ... |
| Apr 11, 2014 | Game of Drones: Advocates Impatient as FAA Regulators Remain Silent | Drone advocates are impatient as the market roars on, but the FAA remains flightless.
This week, 33 drone-advocacy groups sent a letter to FAA administrator, Michael Huerta, encouraging the FAA to publish the Notice of Proposed Rule Making ... |
| Mar 17, 2014 | How Chris Anderson Turned A Hobby Of Building Drones Into A Business | At a recent Mayfield Fund dinner for hardware entrepreneurs and investors hosted by the firm’s partner Tim Chang, former Wired editor-in-chief-turned-drone entrepreneur Chris Anderson opened up about how he turned a hobby of building robots... |
| Dec 15, 2013 | How to Disrupt Traditional Industries with New Ideas | By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News |
| Dec 4, 2013 | Mayfield Backs Connected, Commercial Drone Maker 3D Robotics With $6M | In September, drone and aierial robotics maker 3D Robotics announced a $30 million funding round from Foundry Group, True Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, and SK Ventures. Today, Mayfield Fund is announcing that it was also a part of ... |
| Dec 4, 2013 |
3D Robotics Lands $6M From Mayfield
| San Diego-based unmanned aerial robot developer 3D Robotics has raised $6M in funding from Mayfield, as part of the company's $30M Series B funding round, Mayfield said today. 3D Robotics--headed by former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine,... |
| Dec 4, 2013 | Funding Daily: It's beginning to look a lot like… dolla dolla bills, ya'll | And now the moment you’ve been anticipating since the last glorious time it came out (which was yesterday), today’s roundup of funding and investment news that we lovingly call Funding Daily! Industry Ventures hauls in its biggest fund yet
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| Dec 4, 2013 | Funding Daily: It's beginning to look a lot like… dolla dolla bills, ya'll | 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!
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| Oct 11, 2013 | 5D Robotics Receives $100,000 Contract for Software for ‘Autonomous’ Robot | Carlsbad software writer 5D Robotics Inc. received a $100,000 U.S. Army contract to develop an autonomous robot that can interact with humans.
Builders hope that their robot, called Minotaur, will react to visual and gestured commands from ... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | With $30M in Tank, UAV Maker 3D Robotics Gets Ready for Take-Off | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After raising $30 million in a Series B round of venture funding announced last week, 3D Robotics is ready to really get its drone business off the ground.
The four-year-old s... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | 3D Robotics Receives $30 Million in Series B Financing | 3D Robotics Inc., which sells hardware and software for small unmanned aircraft, recently announced it received $30 million in series B financing.
Foundry Group, a new investor, led the financing with previous investor True Ventures. Also p... |
| Sep 27, 2013 | 3D Robotics Raises $30M in Series B Financing | 3D Robotics, a Berkeley, CA- and Tijuana, Mexico-based open Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) company, raised $30m in Series B financing.
The round was co-led by Foundry Group, a new investor, and existing investor True Ventures, with participa... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | Funding Daily: A baker’s dozen and one for luck | 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!
There were 14 funding stories today, which is a l... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | 3D Robotics Raises $30 Million To Legitimize Aerial Drones For Business | The very mention of the word “drone” often conjures up images of autonomous machines cruising over battlefields, but that’s far from the future 3D Robotics has in store for its own aerial machines. And thanks a recent infusion of capital, t... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | 3D Robotics raises $30M to bust open the market for cheap, unmanned aerial vehicles | 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!
Robots are eating the world, and 3D Robotics want... |
| Apr 20, 2013 | OK Glass, RIP Privacy: The Democratization Of Surveillance | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Congratulating Sifteo and 3DR! | We are thrilled to announce that True portfolio company Sifteo has been acquired by another True portfolio company, 3D Robotics. Sifteo is a cutting-edge consumer electronics company responsible for the award-winning Sifteo Cubes, an intera... |
| Welcoming Technical Machine | In his book Makers, Chris Anderson (Founder of True portfolio company 3D Robotics) explains how the invention of the spinning jenny in 1766 sparked the Industrial Revolution. This historic marker is well known, but as Chris points out, the ... |
| Working With Atoms: Thoughts on Building Next-Generation Connected Device Startups | In 2011, I attended my first Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. While there were a handful of startups scattered throughout the main expo floor, including True-backed Valencell and Makerbot, the majority of companies in attendance were... |
| The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters | Almost exactly six years ago, Apple launched the first iPhone. It was a small device that many dismissed as a toy. In reality Steve put a supercomputer in our pocket — we just didn’t know it. And like super computers before, it came with im... |
| #TRU02 Arrives! | At True Ventures, we believe in products that capture the world’s imagination. Drones, once a concept we rarely encountered outside of a military context, are suddenly everywhere. They are being used to film movies, providing a cheaper and ... |
| Welcoming SlamData |
At True, we look for visionary teams to invest in whom we believe will help create and lead new and emerging markets years from now—as opposed to simply attacking an already existing large market. This is exactly why we jumped at the chan... |
