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<ul><li>Wingtra raised €23 million in a Series B1 round in August 2024, led by RKKVC with participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures, Spectrum Moonshot Fund, and SymbiaVC.</li><li>Their newest platform, WingtraRAY, launched in July 2025 with enhanced safety features including a built-in parachute system and FAA Category 3 certification for flights over populated areas.</li><li>The February 2024 launch of Wingtra's LiDAR payload significantly expanded their addressable market beyond traditional photogrammetry applications.</li></ul>

Wingtra raised €23 million in a Series B1 round in August 2024, led by RKKVC with participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures, Spectrum Moonshot Fund, and SymbiaVC.Their newest platform, WingtraRAY, launched in July 2025 with enhanced safety features including a built-in parachute system and FAA Category 3 certification for flights over populated areas.The February 2024 launch of Wingtra's LiDAR payload significantly expanded their addressable market beyond traditional photogrammetry applications.

Freefly Systems / Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>Freefly Systems has built their business entirely through self-funding, with no external investment rounds to date.</li><li>Freefly&#39;s self-funded approach has forced discipline around unit economics and profitability from early stages, contrasting with venture-funded competitors who prioritize growth over margins.</li><li>The Blue sUAS certification for the Astro Prime opens access to the $70 billion federal drone procurement market, where agencies are actively replacing Chinese-manufactured systems.</li></ul>

Freefly Systems has built their business entirely through self-funding, with no external investment rounds to date.Freefly&#39;s self-funded approach has forced discipline around unit economics and profitability from early stages, contrasting with venture-funded competitors who prioritize growth over margins.The Blue sUAS certification for the Astro Prime opens access to the $70 billion federal drone procurement market, where agencies are actively replacing Chinese-manufactured systems.

<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Skydio generated $180 million in revenue in 2024, up 80% from over $100 million in 2023.</li><li>Skydio raised $230 million in a Series E round in February 2023, reaching a $2.2 billion valuation.</li><li>The company serves every branch of the Department of Defense, over 200 public safety agencies, and more than half of state departments of transportation.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Skydio generated $180 million in revenue in 2024, up 80% from over $100 million in 2023.Skydio raised $230 million in a Series E round in February 2023, reaching a $2.2 billion valuation.The company serves every branch of the Department of Defense, over 200 public safety agencies, and more than half of state departments of transportation.

<ul><li>Despite China’s DJI owning 80–90% of the market for drones in the U.S, security guidance from DoD—and a proposed ban on all DJI drone imports in Congress—is driving even commercial &amp; industrial buyers away, opening a window for U.S.-made alternatives just as infrastructure operators refresh their fleets for ISR, photogrammetry, and routine inspection work.</li><li>Moving from episodic, 9-to-5 manual flights to 24/7 autonomous operations, the next big opportunity is in building the networks of “drone nests” that power routine, high-frequency aerial coverage of the physical world—networks of low-cost, on-site base stations that recharge and redeploy drones automatically, enabling persistent monitoring across power lines, telecom towers, highways, and emergency zones without needing a pilot or crew.</li><li>As drone operations shift from human-supervised to fully autonomous, Skyfish is betting that full-stack control is the only way to make drone nest infrastructure work—because without tight integration across the drone’s airframe, battery system, controller, firmware, sensors, and GPS/cell radios, coordinating autonomous takeoff, docking, charging, and payload routines becomes too unreliable to deploy at scale.</li></ul>

Despite China’s DJI owning 80–90% of the market for drones in the U.S, security guidance from DoD—and a proposed ban on all DJI drone imports in Congress—is driving even commercial &amp; industrial buyers away, opening a window for U.S.-made alternatives just as infrastructure operators refresh their fleets for ISR, photogrammetry, and routine inspection work.Moving from episodic, 9-to-5 manual flights to 24/7 autonomous operations, the next big opportunity is in building the networks of “drone nests” that power routine, high-frequency aerial coverage of the physical world—networks of low-cost, on-site base stations that recharge and redeploy drones automatically, enabling persistent monitoring across power lines, telecom towers, highways, and emergency zones without needing a pilot or crew.As drone operations shift from human-supervised to fully autonomous, Skyfish is betting that full-stack control is the only way to make drone nest infrastructure work—because without tight integration across the drone’s airframe, battery system, controller, firmware, sensors, and GPS/cell radios, coordinating autonomous takeoff, docking, charging, and payload routines becomes too unreliable to deploy at scale.

Orest Pilskalns, CEO Of Skyfish, On Building Autonomous Drone Infrastructure

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Autonomous drone system for inspections, surveillance, and public safety operations

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Skydio (SKYDIO SG)

Primer: Wingtra - 11 Jul 2025

Manufacturer of professional VTOL drones for mapping and surveying applications

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Primer: Freefly Systems - 11 Jul 2025

Manufacturer of high-performance drones and camera stabilization systems for cinematography, industrial inspection, and public safety applications

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Primer: Skydio - 08 Jul 2025

Autonomous drone system for inspections, surveillance, and public safety operations

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Orest Pilskalns, CEO Of Skyfish, On Building Autonomous Drone Infrastructure

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