French docked UAV specialist Azur Drones has raised an additional $8.9 million in investment the company plans to use to accelerate the considerable development and client momentum it gained in 2021.
The new infusion increases the total sum Azur Drones has received since 2016 to $42.3 million. It will be put toward further expanding the still relatively small Bordeaux-based company into a larger international player. Central to its activities is the Skeyetech docked UAV system, which was initially created to act as an autonomous security and monitoring platform, but in response to client demand has been developed to perform a variety of industrial and infrastructure tasks. The unit is now used by a host of chemical and energy clients like TotalEnergies.
As part of Azur Drones’ adaptation of the tech, a new photogrammetry capacity was added at the request of a major customer in the mining sector. That led to the second-generation Skeyetech-DIZI, which also…
