Dash Systems raises $8M for precision-airdrops-as-a-service at distant and catastrophe stricken locations

by RJ Shara | Dec 16, 2020 | Fundings and Exit, Startups

Now more than ever both the value and constraints of the global delivery infrastructure are on full screen. But while Amazon and others attempt to speed up last mile delivery using drones, Dash Systems wishes to speed up the middle mile– with military-inspired airdrops putting pallets of parcels down at their penultimate destinations, even in [ …]
The problem, he stated, is that the military style of shipment (for airdrops, anyhow, not smart bombs) isn’t especially accurate: “Great for storming the coast of Normandy, however not for landing in the parking lot of a post workplace. The there are lots of other locations in the lower 48, Miller kept in mind, that can’t get Amazon’s 2-day delivery, for example, because the infrastructure just isn’t there to complete the four actions noted above in that timeframe. Business agreements are all well and good, however the concept really got its start in the aftermath of Cyclone Maria, where in Puerto Rico, Ifill stated, individuals had gone nearly two weeks without any shipments due to the fact that the communications facilities was so devastated. “We had to hike in with a satellite phone to ask the mayor what they needed,” he said, but actual shipment was a 45 minute flight from San Juan.”No brand-new shipment lane has ever made an old one go out of company,” he said….