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| 22.05.2024 | Govt needs to further expand PLI scheme to make India 'Global Drone Hub' | - |
| 15.10.2021 | Top 10 Global Drone Delivery Startups | In recent years, drones have become central to the functioning of several businesses and governmental entities and have managed to pierce through the traditional way of doing business in many industries. Drones are rapidly growing in popula... |
| 21.04.2021 | Flirtey implements Kongsberg Geospatial IRIS Airspace Awareness technology to enable FAA Certification for BVLOS drone delivery operations | A Flirtey Eagle unmanned aircraft is shown in flight making a medical delivery. The Kongsberg IRIS technology is a key part of Flirtey's best-in-class technology for last-mile drone delivery, and Kongsberg Geospatial’s experience powering A... |
| 03.04.2021 | Flirtey : to certify and expand production of the Flirtey : Eagle drone delivery system | RENO, Nev., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
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| 04.03.2021 | Flirtey to certify and expand production of the Flirtey Eagle drone delivery system | |
| 04.03.2021 | Flirtey : to certify and expand production of the Flirtey : Eagle drone delivery system | RENO, Nev., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
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Flirtey, the pioneer and a leader in the commercial drone delivery industry, today announced that it has completed t... |
| 19.11.2020 | The Reno Air Races Need Half A Million Dollars In Donations To Continue. | The renowned #11 Miss America P-51 Mustang racer, a fixture of the unlimited racing class at Reno ... [+] and an air racing icon from the media to scale models. Courtesy Reno Air Racing Association |
| 15.12.2019 | Delivering the goods: Drones and robots are making their way to your door | It's morning in Berkeley, California, and the Kiwibots are heading off to work.
These four-wheeled robots navigate sidewalks and even crosswalks taking food to hungry college students. "This is the future," said Kiwibots CEO Felip... |
| 18.01.2019 | Drones delivering medical supplies and more can help save American lives | On July 17, 2015, a small drone traversed the mountainous terrain of Wise County, Va., and lowered a shipment of medications to a pop-up clinic offered by Remote Area Medical. This hexacopter, operated by Flirtey, an Australian company, was... |
| 04.12.2017 | 8 Things That Can Be Delivered By Drone | In recent months the U.S. has pushed forward to open a potential future filled with drone deliveries. Unfortunately we are just entering a new age of testing thanks to a Presidential Memorandum and Executive Order; however, the likes of Ama... |
| 31.03.2017 | Matternet cleared to fly blood samples in delivery drones over Swiss cities | The Swiss Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA) has granted Matternet a certification allowing their delivery drones to fly autonomously over cities at any time of day or night. Clearing this regulatory hurdle means that by early next ye... |
| 31.01.2017 | Why Piaggio built Gita, a cargo-carrying robot, to follow in your footsteps | Piaggio, the Italian company that makes Vespa scooters and Moto Guzzi motorcycles, revealed its newest development this week: a personal delivery device or “cargo robot,” called the Gita. The robot was designed by a new “startup” within the... |
| 19.01.2017 | Flirtey Secures $16M Series A Round |
RENO, NV, Drone delivery startup Flirtey has raised $16 million in Series A funding.
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| 19.01.2017 | Flirtey Raises $16m in Series A Funding | Flirtey, a Reno, Nevada- and Auckland, New Zealand-based drone delivery startup, raised $16m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from Lowercase Capital, Y Combinator and World I... |
| 19.01.2017 | Drone startup Flirtey raises US$16 million Series A round to expand its delivery run | Sydney-founded, Reno-based drone startup Flirtey has raised a US$16 million ($21.3 million) Series A round led by existing backers Menlo Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from Lowercase Capital, Y Combinator, and World Inno... |
| 19.01.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, January 19 | PE DATA, PE SCAMS, PE HEARINGS, PE STRATEGY…AND JETER
PE DATA: This morning PitchBook released its report on 2016 private equity activity. It’s not great. Deal volume is down. Deal multiples are up. Equity contributions are up. Exit values ... |
| 18.01.2017 | Drone delivery startup Flirtey raises $16 million to become a next-gen UPS | Drone delivery startup Flirtey has raised $16 million in Series A funding to bring its high-flying service to new customers, companies and possibly countries. Earlier, the startup raised $120,000 in seed funding and participated in the Y Co... |
| 15.12.2016 | 8 technologies that will transform healthcare in 2017 and beyond | At this moment in time, healthcare stands on the cusp of a fundamental reset itself and technology may as well lead the way to whatever system we end up with. A new report from PricewaterhouseCooper’s Health Research Institute, Top Health I... |
| 17.11.2016 | Domino’s just successfully delivered a pizza by drone for the first time | After testing drone delivery systems for some time, Domino’s finally rolled out its aerial pizza delivery service for the first time, successfully sending pizzas to residents of Whangaparaoa, New Zealand.
As Quartz reports, the small rollou... |
| 10.11.2016 | Zipline raises $25M as it prepares to launch drone delivery medical supply service in U.S. | The drone business is planning to launch its drone delivery service in the U.S. next year, as part of a partnership with the White House and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration the Venture Beat article noted.
Zipline has been ramping u... |
| 31.10.2016 | Flirtey drones deliver socks from the sky at Menlo Ventures’ annual partner meeting | Around the world, drones have been delivering life-saving drugs and blood to clinics, and contrarily tasty treats like burritos, pizza, and Slurpees to homes or campuses.
Civilian drones have also conducted countless surveys of farms, const... |
| 24.10.2016 | Drone pizza delivery is just the tip of the robotic restaurant revolution | Originally Published by:
The next time you open the door to find the pizza you ordered (via an app of course), you may not find a delivery person standing on your doorstep.
Expect to see a drone dropping off your dinner. And perhaps that di... |
| 08.09.2016 | Chipotle to test burrito delivery by drone with Project Wing at Virginia Tech | Alphabet’s innovation lab X has a drone-focused team called Project Wing which has just announced a plan to commence aerial burrito delivery, in partnership with Chipotle, on the campus of Virgina Tech next week.
Project Wing’s mission it t... |
| 06.09.2016 | What’s next for the U.S. drone market? | Following a major milestone for the domestic drone industry last week, industry insiders are expecting a big uptick in dollars invested in U.S. drone-tech companies — just maybe not an immediate one.
As we previously reported, the U.S. Depa... |
| 26.08.2016 | Flirtey flies pies for Domino’s in New Zealand | Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has demonstrated delivery of hot pizzas by drone in Auckland, New Zealand.
The company has a long history of embracing high-tech concepts. Last year, they tested out a four-wheeled, driverless pizza delivery vehic... |
| 22.08.2016 | Your critical medical supplies could be a drone away | Over the next few months the startup plans to ramp up to between 50 and 100 deliveries a day, seven days a week. By the end of the year, deliveries are expected to start in the eastern half of Rwanda as well.
“The biggest thing isn’t necess... |
| 22.07.2016 | 7-Eleven delivers by drone in Reno including, yes, Slurpees | 7-Eleven Inc. and a tech startup called Flirtey have beaten Amazon to the punch in making the first drone delivery to a customer’s home in the U.S.
Most already know 7-Eleven, the convenience store retail chain that boasts about 10,800 stor... |
| 29.06.2016 | Five of the best Australian startups focusing on bots and automation | Robots might not be taking over the world yet but they’re certainly becoming ever more popular in the startup world.
Innovation and automation often come hand in hand these days, sometimes with physical robots, and other times with more sub... |
| 27.06.2016 | A Johns Hopkins professor was involved in the first-ever ship-to-shore drone delivery | Retailers like Amazon want to use drone delivery so you don’t have to leave your house to grab something you want. But a Nevada startup and a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor are demonstrating that UAVs can also be used to deliver... |
| 23.06.2016 | Flirtey delivers drugs by drone from ship to shore in New Jersey | The Jersey Shore is finally famous for something besides fake tanning.
A Reno, Nevada-based startup called Flirtey Inc. conducted the first domestic “ship to shore” drone delivery this week along the New Jersey coastline. The company’s prop... |
| 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... |
| 20.08.2015 | Aussies get their 150 seconds to shine at YC demo fest | Two Australian startup founders have delivered perhaps the biggest pitches of their lives at the Y Combinator Demo Days this week.
The YC demos were spread across two days this year in Mountain View, California, with over 100 startups from ... |
| 20.08.2015 | Congratulations To The YC Summer 2015 Class | This week we held Demo Day for our Summer 2015 class at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. It was the 21st Demo Day event in Y Combinator’s history, with a total of 102 pitches spread across two days. Below is a list ... |
| 19.08.2015 | 11 startups you should know from Y Combinator’s summer 2015 demo day | It’s time for another batch of startups to show off what they’ve got. It’s Y Combinator’s demo day, and over the past two days, 104 companies have presented their services, devices, technology, and promise. Will one of these companies becom... |
| 18.08.2015 | The 50 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 1 | Hardware took the spotlight at today’s Y Combinator Demo Day, reflecting a major shift of the accelerator beyond the cliche mobile app startup. Out of the 50 companies from the Summer 2015 batch that demoed on the record today, 20 featured ... |
| 18.06.2015 | Aussie startup Flirtey to conduct commercial drone deliveries in the US in partnership with NASA and Virginia Tech | Sydney startup Flirtey will conduct the first commercial drone deliveries in the United States to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The first approved flight will take place on July 17 in Wise, Virginia, in partnership wit... |
| 02.05.2015 | Here’s how one startup plans to dominate drone-based delivery | reader comments 84 with 45 posters participating
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The smartphone app plots its course, but the heavy lifting is done in the cloud.
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All the drone launcher has to do... |
| 02.04.2015 | Aussie drone startup assists New Zealand search and rescue operation | Sydney startup Flirtey is one step closer to achieving its goal of running the skies with drones after successfully completing a trial with New Zealand’s national search and rescue organisation.
The company, which hopes to use flying robots... |
| 11.04.2014 | Meet the Australian startup planning to run the skies with their drones | It takes a gusty entrepreneur to start a pitch claiming Amazon’s plans for drone deliveries are vaporware, and then that his tiny team can and is pulling it off.
But that’s exactly how Sydney-based drone startup Flirtey’s Matthew Sweeny kic... |
| 15.10.2013 | Need a textbook in a hurry? Startup will send it by drone | reader comments 59 with 47 posters participating
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A textbook-rental startup in Australia has found a new way to shave costs from its business model: delivery by drone. Zooka... |
| 14.10.2013 | Australian Startups Zookal And Flirtey To Begin Delivering Textbook Orders By Drone | As countries around the world gradually lift regulations on the use of commercial drones, a new startup called Flirtey hopes to turn Australia into a worldwide industry leader for the use of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) in e-commerce del... |
| - | 8 technologies that will transform healthcare in 2017 and beyond | While technology is no silver bullet able to solve all that ails the healthcare industry, it has always been part and parcel of any revolution.
Think of the printing revolution and its influence of the Protestant Reformation that forever cr... |
| - | Your critical medical supplies could be a drone away | A drone from Zipline delivering a package
Drones are already being considered for news reporting, home delivery, and even new racing entertainment. Now the healthcare industry is taking a closer look at unmanned aerial vehicles, with one Ca... |
| - | Zipline raises $25M as it prepares to launch drone delivery medical supply service in U.S. | Zipline drone
Zipline, a San Francisco Bay-area company that’s using drones to deliver medical supplies such as blood, (and soon, medication and vaccines) to rural areas and in developing countries, has closed a $25 million Series B round, ... |
| - | Domino’s just successfully delivered a pizza by drone for the first time | After testing drone delivery systems for some time, Domino’s finally rolled out its aerial pizza delivery service for the first time, successfully sending pizzas to residents of Whangaparaoa, New Zealand.
As Quartz reports, the small rollou... |
