by RJ Shara | Aug 19, 2021 | Fundings and Exit, Startups
The push for renewable resource has actually brought overseas wind power to the forefront of lots of an energy company’s program, and that suggests taking a very close look at the ocean flooring where the setups are to go. Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its self-governing underwater car [ …] “We think we’re the first cloud-native platform for seafloor information,” stated Anthony DiMare, CEO and cofounder (with CTO Charlie Chiau) of Bedrock. Normally, DiMare discussed, this data was gathered, processed, and stored on the ships themselves. The existing market is more focused on in-depth, near-shore information than the deep sea, since there’s a crush to take part in the growing wind energy market. The increased frequency of the finder likewise suggests increased detail, so the image its instruments paint is better than what you ‘d get with a larger wave. 
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by RJ Shara | Jun 24, 2021 | Startups
Routinely testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending duty for energy companies and local safety authorities, and usually– as you may anticipate– involves either a boat or a minimum of a set of waders. Nixie gets the job done with a drone instead, making the procedure quicker, more affordable, and a lot less wet. The most […] You put the empty container in there, fly the drone out to the location, then submerge the arm. When it flies back, the filled container can be taken out while the drone hovers and a fresh one put in its place to bring to the next area. The drone method has actually the included advantages of having exact GPS areas for each sample and of not disturbing the water when it dips in. 
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by RJ Shara | May 27, 2021 | Startups
Airspace Link is today announcing it raised a $10 million Series A from Altos Ventures, Thales and others. The Detroit, Michigan-based startup anticipates using the additional funds to expand its domestic offering and expand overseas. CEO Michael Healander explains to TechCrunch that the company sees airspaces as digital infrastructure lacking critical regulations. “Today you have […] …
by RJ Shara | Apr 20, 2021 | Startups
The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution to aid data capture for industrial use-cases, to trial a concept for routine BVLOS operations — the first such authorization for a U.K. company, the regulator said today. The test […] …
by RJ Shara | Mar 22, 2021 | Startups
It’s plain to see that electric cars are the future, but there’s more to making that change happen than swapping out a gas motor for a battery-powered one– especially in airplane. H3X is a startup that aims to accelerate that future with a reimagined, completely integrated electrical motor that it declares outperforms everything on […] Electric motors typically have 3 primary sections: the motor itself, a power shipment system, and a gearbox, each of which might have its own real estate and be sold and mounted separately from one another. But however isn’t like H3X stumbled over a single advance that magically tripled the performance of electric electrical. Despite the substantial gains H3X claims, the target market of passenger airplane is hardly one that they, or anybody, can simply jump into. Graduating to passenger flights isn’t a remote dream, exactly, recommended Liben:”We’re already on our way– this isn’t 20-years-out type stuff. 
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by RJ Shara | Mar 2, 2021 | Startups
There are many tasks in the building industry that fall under the “dull, filthy, and harmful” category stated to be ripe for automation– however just a couple of can really be handled with today’s technology. One such task is the repetitive but important task of rebar connecting, which a start-up called SkyMul is aiming […] The steel rebar that offers strength to concrete floorings, walls, and other structures is held in place throughout the pouring process by tying it to the other rebar where the rods cross. Rodbusters (as rebar connecting specialists are called, or so I’m told) are masters of the art of looping a brief length of plastic or wire around an intersection between 2 pieces of rebar, then twisting and connecting it securely so that the rods are protected in multiple directions. Get in SkyMul, a start-up still in the extremely early stages however with an engaging pitch: rebar connecting done by a fleet of drones. A mapper drone flies over the website to mark the boundaries and then, in an automatic closer flyover, to build a map of the rebar itself and where the ties will need to go. Each one moves from spot to area, hovering and descending till its tying tool (much like those used by human rodbusters) covers the rebar crossway; the tie is wrapped, twisted, and the drone is off to the next spot….
by RJ Shara | Jan 19, 2021 | Startups
Bay Area-based construction start-up TraceAir today revealed a $3.5 million Series A. Led by London-based XTX Ventures, this round brings the company’s total funding approximately $7 million. The raise consists of existing investor City VC, together with new additions Liquid 2 Ventures, GEM Capital, GPS Ventures and Andrew Filev. We initially kept in mind the company back […] Last February, TraceAir announced a brand-new drone management tool. …
by RJ Shara | Aug 20, 2020 | Fundings and Exit
Vertical farming technology supplier iFarm has bagged a $4 million seed round, led by Gagarin Capital, an earlier financier in the start-up. Other financiers in the round include Matrix Capital, Impulse VC, IMI.VC and numerous company angels. The Finnish start-up is focused on providing software application that enables others to carry out vertical farming — targeting […]
The system includes a range of innovations to automate and monitor crop care, applying computer vision and device learning and drawing on information on “thousands” of plants collected from a dispersed network of farms, per iFarm. All of our algorithms, all of the data, is based in our software,”says Chizhov, stressing the software is hardware agnostic– suggesting clients do not require to use iFarm’s set for their vertical farms however just can apply its algorithms to their own set-ups. On the competitive front, iFarm is not the only technology company looking for to offer to the blossoming vertical farming sector. Design, setup, operation, assistance to sell the last product etc. “Chizhov also notes iFarm has filed patents to secure some of its technologies. …
by RJ Shara | Apr 8, 2020 | Startups
The aerospace market is developing rapidly and combining with other sections of tech, making it an amazing space for both financiers and startups– however the problems of the worldwide pandemic are being felt by both. Bessemer Venture Partners investor Tess Hatch has been helping guide companies in their portfolio through these weird times, and […] ” We’re encouraging them to really enjoy their burn, due to the fact that their leading line is not going to strike where they expected it to. One of the amusing things we’re talking about is that financiers, one of their favorite things is to be able to anticipate how the future, at least the next year or two, is going to go.”It is shaking whatever that we’ve believed in so highly. The only thing we truly can do if we can’t look out that much further, we can encourage our companies perhaps to raise a bit of additional capital now while the water is shut off, however there’s still a little bit trickling from the showerhead … To be able to last, hopefully, just a couple of quarters however possibly even a couple of years. …
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