
SkySafe, a San Diego, CA-based airspace safety and administration know-how firm, raised $30m in Collection B funding.
The spherical was led by Kingfisher Funding Advisors with participation from new traders Gaingels, and MIT alumni funding fund Castor Ventures, in addition to earlier investor Andreessen Horowitz.
The corporate, which has raised $45m in whole financing, intends to make use of the funds to speed up development by way of strategic hiring, R&D, and expanded manufacturing of its airspace safety system for industrial adoption.
Based in 2015 by former U.S. Air Power Officer Grant Jordan, together with fellow MIT alum Scott Torborg and Michael Spindel with co-founder Paul Wicks, SkySafe gives drone protection and airspace management options to navy, public security, and industrial prospects. The corporate applies superior radio know-how, reverse engineering, and deep risk evaluation to develop instruments to soundly and successfully function approved drones whereas defending towards threats for airspace safety. Its modular {hardware} and software program could be tailor-made to particular regulatory environments to guard public areas from potential drone threats. Concurrently, it helps the adoption of business drone use for surveying, catastrophe reduction, supply, hobbyists and different shopper functions.
SkySafe know-how is deployed to prospects globally in additional than 30 international locations. Worldwide airports, prisons, stadiums, border patrol, legislation enforcement companies, and U.S. and allied militaries all use the know-how.
FinSMEs
20/12/2021