Mere months after closing a $12.5 million Series C round, DroneBase, a California-based drone data collection and analytics startup, has raised $20 million in growth funding. The funding is being deployed across product development, international expansion, and go-to-market business units, with the company looking to hire at least 35 additional full-time employees by 2022.

Founded in 2014, DroneBase is focused on providing fast, affordable, and reliable drone data and analytics to renewable energy, property, insurance, and construction sectors. Last year, the company opened its first international office in Germany. Today, it claims to manage the world’s largest network of crewed and uncrewed aircraft operators in the world, totaling over 80,000 pilots across 70 countries.

These pilots have captured high-resolution photos of wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, taken stock of commercial real estate complexes after a hurricane in Texas, and flown crewed aircraft…

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Source: dronedj.com