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| 29.10.2018 | Failed drone startup Airware auctions assets, Delair buys teammates | Airware desperately sought cash for 18 months before running out of money and shutting down last month, leaving about 120 employees without jobs after the startup had burned $118 million in funding. Bandaid strategic investments from constr... |
| 14.09.2018 | Drone startup Airware crashes, shuts down after burning $118M | Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s GV, and Kleiner Perkins. The startup ran ... |
| 19.02.2018 | Беспилотники «рулят», или Почему за дронами будущее | Обо всех возможных перспективах развития отрасли рассказывает Илья Попов, член отраслевых рабочих групп при Министерстве Финансов РФ, Торгово-промышленной палате РФ и Деловой России.
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| 19.01.2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Plenty Makes Plans in China, Remote Sensing Startups Merge, Ex-Cisco CEO Invests in Agtech, more | Plenty, Inc. Announces Plans to Build 300 Vertical Farms in China
The SoftBank-backed indoor farming company Plenty, Inc. made public its plans to build 300 new vertical farms near major Chinese cities, where the growing middle class is eve... |
| 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 ... |
| 22.06.2017 | Airware Expands Management Team | The Airware team recently announced additions to their management team, while founder and CEO Jonathan Downey announced that he will step down later this month to pass the top job on to Airware’s COO Yvonne Wassenaar. Airware also welcomed ... |
| 07.03.2017 | Lemnos just raised a $50 million third fund to (mostly) focus on hardware | Lemnos, a seed-stage, hardware-focused venture firm in San Francisco, is today announcing the close of its third and newest fund, with $50 million in commitments.
It’s a proud moment for co-founder Jeremy Conrad, whose pitch for Lemnos wasn... |
| 06.02.2017 | Airware Secures Strategic Investment from Caterpillar Ventures | Airware, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of solutions that turn aerial data into actionable business intelligence for enterprises, secured a strategic investment from Caterpillar Ventures.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The co... |
| 03.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, February 3 | IPO CHRISTMAS
A few highlights from the debutante ball of world’s most secretive company, Snap Inc:
Paid Content What you need to know about growing cyberattacks From ExtraHop
Income: Snap is losing a ton of money, but revenue grew signific... |
| 02.02.2017 | Airware and Caterpillar | Sounds like a match made in heaven to me. Caterpillar made a strategic investment in our portfolio company Airware to accelerate drone data solutions being available at Caterpillar’s dealers. Congrats to both teams!
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| 02.02.2017 | Caterpillar invests in Airware bringing drone tech to mining and construction enterprises | The venture arm of Caterpillar Inc., a major manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, has invested in San Francisco drone tech startup Airware. Rather than make its own unmanned aerial vehicles, Airware has focused its efforts aro... |
| 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... |
| 11.01.2017 | Industrial drone platform Kespry brings in new CEO | Commercial drone maker Kespry, which launched in 2013, announced it was bringing in industry vet George Mathew as CEO today.
Mathew, who most recently was president and COO at data analytics startup Alteryx, has also had stints as GM of Bus... |
| 07.12.2016 | Airware’s Commercial Drone Fund Invests in Raptor Maps | Commercial Drone Fund, a venture capital fund launched by drone software company Airware, has made an undisclosed investment in Raptor Maps, a Cambridge-based company creating a drone-enabled technology platform for farmers.
This funding ma... |
| 29.09.2016 | Airware Acquires Redbird | Congrats to the Airware team on their purchase of analytics provider Redbird. Welcome to the family, Redbird employees! |
| 26.09.2016 | Airware Acquires Drone Data Analytics Developer Redbird | Airware, a San Francisco, CA-based commercial drone solutions, provider, acquired Redbird, a Paris, France-based provider of drone data analytics for mining, quarrying, and construction industries.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
... |
| 24.09.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 9/24/16 | Facebook bought Nascent Object; Airbnb acquired Trip4real; Google purchased Api.ai
Facebook acquired ,modular consumer electronics platform Nascent Objects. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Baback Elmieh, CEO of Nascent Object... |
| 22.09.2016 | Airware buys Redbird to build a full-stack drone services empire | “I want to be the global leader. I don’t want to build the non-relevant European or French player.” That’s why Emmanuel de Maistre just sold Redbird, his drone-powered analytics provider for construction and mining companies, to US drone se... |
| 23.08.2016 | Jonathan Downey Joins 35 Innovators Under 35 | Airware CEO Jonathan Downey was announced as one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators under 35. Congrats! |
| 29.06.2016 | Shasta Ventures is raising a $300 million fifth fund | Shasta Ventures is raising up to $300 million for a fifth fund according to a new SEC filing that lists managing director Jason Pressman and Rob Coneybeer (Coneybeer co-founded Shasta with fellow managing directors Tod Francis and Ravi Moha... |
| 10.04.2016 | Ground delivery robots: Passing fancy or next wave? | “Every failed on demand startup will reappear as a successful robotics driven business in five to 10 years.” So tweeted Jeremy Conrad, founding partner of the San Francisco-based hardware fund Lemnos Labs, one recent afternoon.
Conrad appar... |
| 10.04.2016 | Drones : How to find the right place to invest | Last week, we saw a torrent of news stories covering the launch of the DJI Phantom 4 and several WSJ articles about how drone investments have not delivered to full potential. As an early stage investor looking at this sector, I’m trying to... |
| 31.03.2016 | Airware Grabs $30M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Airware, a drone OS startup that is expanding into hardware, has raised $30 million in Series C funding.
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| 31.03.2016 | Airware snatches $30M to sell complete drones to the Fortune 500 | Airware used to sell drone operating systems. Now it’s swiveling to sell the whole flying kit and caboodle: drone hardware, the software to control them, and the cloud where their data goes. It discovered that big enterprise companies didn’... |
| 31.03.2016 | Airware Raises $30M in Series C Funding | Airware, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of an operating system for commercial drones, raised $30m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Next World Capital with participation from John Chambers, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perk... |
| 31.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 31, 2016 | Garena bagged $170 Series D funding; Turner led $15M investment in Mashable; SkySquirrel raised $1M
SkySquirrel Technologies, a Halifax, Canada-based provider of drone-based technology for monitoring and improving crop health, closed a $1 m... |
| 03.02.2016 | FAA Reauthorization Bill Still Leaves Much To Be Desired For Commercial Drone Operators | The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is due for reauthorization and the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee introduced the first draft of the FAA bill today. While the efforts to reform the air traffic control system will like... |
| 02.02.2016 | The Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Washington D.C. and Silicon Valley | Randy Komisar Contributor
Randy Komisar, a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs to create businesses with leading-edge technology. He is also the author ... |
| 27.12.2015 | How GoPro Is Building Its Future Drone Platform Foundations | Patrice Lelaisant Contributor
Patrice Lelaisant is a co-founder of Inventuav.
GoPro started working on drones a few months ago in order to stake a claim in this multibillion-dollar market. This is a natural for them, as they will be able to... |
| 08.12.2015 | Making The Case For Drones In Commercial Markets | Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015, the CEOs of Sky Futures, Verifly and Airware took the stage with TechCrunch writer Frederic Lardinois in an attempt to explain how drones can be used other than for taking selfies. But, before that c... |
| 27.11.2015 | Not A Hobby — Disrupt London Lets Loose The Drones Of Awe | We don’t just plan to talk about the Cloud at TechCrunch Disrupt London in two weeks time on December 7th-8th (Agenda, Tickets). The conference will also cover the booming world of Drones that are literally in the clouds. Here are our panel... |
| 10.11.2015 | How To Get Drones Off Of The Ground: Be An Active Player | Guest author Bill O’Connor serves as co-chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP’s UAS/Drones Group.
On CBS news program “60 Minutes,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos very publicly declared his intentions to use unmanned aerial systems (UASs) to make del... |
| 07.10.2015 | 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... |
| 13.09.2015 | Drones + X | Small drones are advancing quickly. They used to be little else but sophisticated remote-controlled toys and people love to complain when we call them ‘drones’ because that implies that they are at least semi-autonomous (and maybe able to b... |
| 27.08.2015 | Chinese Drone Startup Yuneec Grabs $60M In Funding From Intel | A second Chinese drone startup has disclosed major funding this week. Intel announced it put $60 million into Shanghai-based Yuneec, just two days after rival EHANG publicized a $42 million Series B.
Both EHANG and Yuneec are up against DJI... |
| 21.06.2015 | Enterprise Software’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity | Aaron Levie Contributor
Aaron Levie is the Chief Executive Officer of Box.
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Now the cloud wars (really) begin
The Industrialist’s Dilemma
Outside of the tech industry, an unmistakable trend is sweeping the busi... |
| 01.06.2015 | Airware’s Commercial Drone Fund Announces its First Two Portfolio Acquisitions | Airware recently announced the first two investments for its newly established Commercial Drone Fund: Redbird, a cloud data analysis company operating out of Paris, France, and Sky-Futures, a London-based leader in oil and gas data capture ... |
| 27.05.2015 | Airware And DJI/Accel Launch Drone Investment Funds | Airware makes a flexible drone operating system. DJI makes the top consumer drones. But they need to bundle up with industry-specific hardware and software makers to sell whole commercial drone packages to big construction, oil, and insuran... |
| 27.05.2015 | DJI and Accel, and Airware, both reveal new drone funds | Skyfund and Commercial Drone Fund will both invest at least $250,000 in drone companies
We've already seen funding for drone companies shoot up in 2014, more than doubling what they had done the year before. Expect that number to continue t... |
| 19.04.2015 | Airware and Intel Fly Together, AIP Hits the Sky | Big day in the drone sphere as Airware, the most heavily venture backed drone company in Silicon Valley, made it known it had received an undisclosed investment from Intel Capital, Intel’s investment arm. The information came on the back of... |
| 16.04.2015 | Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating System | Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs much better than humans or helicopters. The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot. Airware is out to change that with today’s launch of i... |
| 19.02.2015 | 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... |
| 15.02.2015 | FAA Proposes Rules To Open The Sky To Some Commercial Drones, But Delivery Drones Remain Grounded | After a number of delays, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today officially announced its proposed rules for small commercial drones. Most of the proposed rules already leaked earlier this weekend. Overall, the proposed rules ... |
| 20.11.2014 | Airware Raises Strategic Investment from GE Ventures | Airware, a San Francisco, CA-based drone startup, raised a strategic investment from GE Ventures, the investment subsidiary of GE.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to continue preparation... |
| 19.11.2014 | Airware’s Drone Operating System Gets Strategic Investment, Tech, Clients From GE Ventures | Dull, dirty, and dangerous. Those are the tasks robots are best for, but it also describes jobs with General Electric’s Field Services division, inspecting wind turbines and oil pipelines. So today GE Ventures made one of its first major st... |
| 01.10.2014 | Commercial Drones Are Coming, And Sooner Than You Think | When Jeff Bezos talked about delivering your Amazon packages by drone last year on 60 minutes, it seemed like a grand publicity stunt designed to get his company some attention, but the fact is we are not that far away from seeing widesprea... |
| 25.09.2014 | FAA approves limited use of drones on some movie sets | Today, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will allow the use the of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on some U.S. film sets.
More specifically, the FAA says it “has granted regulatory exemptions to six aerial photo and video pr... |
| 25.08.2014 | July Roundup of Ag & AgTech Deals
FUNDING
LAUNCHED AG FUNDS
GRANTS
M&A
PARTNERSHIPS
LAUNCHED CAMPAIGNS | We are excited to announce that we are partnering with Food+Tech Connect to launch a monthly AgTech Funding Roundup! We’ll be covering companies that are using technology to disrupt our agriculture and food system. Here’s our coverage for J... |
| 30.07.2014 | Drone Startups, Like Airware, Seek Profit in Software and the Cloud | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Airware is a drone company that won’t be selling any drones. And it’s not alone: as the emerging market for commercial drones takes shape, a number of startups plan to earn pr... |
| 25.07.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 7/25/14 | Timehop, AppDynamics, BlueStacks, Threadflip, Intent Media, Airware, Quandoo, Edgewave, SimpleReach
Seed stage
Mobile Action, a user acquisition solution for apps, raised $805,000 in seed funding from Felicis Ventures, Streamlined Ventures ... |
| 24.07.2014 | Airware Raises $25M in Series B Financing | Airware, a San Francisco, CA-based maker of a hardware, software, and cloud services platform for commercial drone development and operation, raised $25m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB... |
| 24.07.2014 | Drone Company Airware Raises $25 Million Series B | Despite a lack of FAA regulation, drone companies are still charging forward with funding.
Airware, an aerial information platform for operating commercial drones, recently raised $25 million in a Series B round. The round was lead by Klein... |
| 23.07.2014 | Startup Airware raises $25M to help bring more commercial drones to market | 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!
Drone systems startup Airware just snagged $25 mi... |
| 23.07.2014 | Airware Preps Launch Of Its Commercial Drone Operating System With $25M From Kleiner | Building a drone’s hardware and software from scratch is tough and expensive, but open source drone kits are inflexible. So to power businesses looking to customize drones for commercial uses from agriculture to industrial inspections, Airw... |
| 23.07.2014 | Startup Airware raises $25M to help bring more commercial drones to market | Drone systems startup Airware just snagged $25 million to launch a cloud operating system for drones networks.
The company’s aerial OS allows autonomous commercial drones to legally collect, analyze, and distribute data within its platform.... |
| 23.07.2014 | Airware Raises $25M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Airware has raised a $25 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins.
>> Click here for more funding data on Airware
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Airware has raised a $25 m... |
| 14.01.2014 | Airware creates drone to protect endangered rhinos | Airware demonstrates one of the many potential uses of drones: wildlife conservation
Drones. The thought of a bunch of whizzing rotor blades descending around you as you walk out to your car is scary-dystopian-future terrifying. But drones ... |
| 14.01.2014 | Airware (YC W13) Demos Its Drone Platform By Protecting Rhinos From Poachers | Airware wants to prove drones have plenty of uses beyond killing people. Today the unmanned aerial vehicle hardware/software/firmware startup detailed how it’s built and deployed special drones to thwart animal poachers in Kenya, Africa. Th... |
| 13.01.2014 | For More Than War: Airware Demos Its Drone Platform By Protecting Rhinos From Poachers | Airware wants to prove drones have plenty of uses beyond killing people. Today the unmanned aerial vehicle hardware/software/firmware startup detailed how it’s built and deployed special drones to thwart animal poachers in Kenya, Africa. Th... |
| 01.12.2013 | I, Drone | Let’s ignore, for a moment, all of the obvious problems with a drone-based Amazon Prime delivery system. Let’s ignore the fact that you can get free stuff if you’re a good shot with a rifle. And let’s ignore the fact that a 10-mile range is... |
| 14.09.2013 | Wait, When Did Software Become So Boring? | 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.
More posts by th... |
| 14.08.2013 | Raspberry Fly? Airware’s Linux and ARM developer platform for drones | Airware is trying to catch the uplift of the civilian drone market with its Linux-based, freely exportable drone avionics and autopilot platform.
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| 12.08.2013 | YC, Andreessen-backed Airware takes big step into commercial drone market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Drones are making their way to the mainstream market and Airware is there to pave the way.
The Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and G... |
| 12.08.2013 | YC, Andreessen-backed Airware takes big step into commercial drone market | Drones are making their way to the mainstream market and Airware is there to pave the way.
The Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Google Ventures-backed company provides an operating system and development platform for unmanned aerial v... |
| 15.05.2013 | Airware Raises $10.7M in Series A Financing | Airware, a Newport Beach, CA-based creator of a universal development platform for commercial drones, raised $10.7m in Series A financing.
The company intends to use the capital to continue to expand the team (read here) and scale operation... |
| 15.05.2013 | Airware Takes Off with $10.7M Series A |
NEWPORT BEACH, CA, Drone startup Airware has raised $10.7 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Google Ventures.
>> Click here for more funding data on Airware
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| 15.05.2013 | Airware Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz To Build Brains For Unmanned Drones | Ready for a sky full of robo-planes?
Airware, a company that’s building the brains and guts for commercial unmanned drones, is announcing this morning that they’ve raised a big ol’ $10.7M Series A.
The round is led by Andreessen Horowitz, a... |
| 15.05.2013 | Airware (YC W13) raises $10.7M from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures for commercial drone autopilots | The drones are coming. But rather than hovering over our homes in some big-brother scenario, they’ll be checking farmers’ crops, inspecting power lines, fighting forest fires and delivering medicines and vaccines in rural Africa.
Those are... |
| 15.05.2013 |
Airware Gets $10.7M From Google, Andreessen For Unmanned Drone Technology
| Looking to build your own unmanned aerial vehicle? A new, Newport Beach-based startup, Airware, has raised $10.7M to develop all of the infrastructure for buildling your own, commercial drone, from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. A... |
| 26.03.2013 | Y Combinator Winter 2013 Demo Day, Batch 1: Meet Wevorce, FlightCar, Thalmic, And More | It’s Demo Day time once again for Y Combinator, the startup incubator that has become a Silicon Valley institution since shaping its first class of startups back in 2005.
A handful of us TechCrunch writers are here in Mountain View, Calif, ... |
