DroneDeploy Raises $25M Series C

California-based DroneDeply announced it has raised $25M in series C funding, bringing its total funding to date to $56M. The round was led by the Invenergy Future Fund with participation from AirTree, one of Australia’s largest venture capital firms, as well as existing investors – Scale Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, Emergence Capital and AngelPad.

Via its community of 30K users, DroneDeploy’s cloud-based data platform has mapped 30M acres in 180 countries on 400K job sites. Recently, the company launched a real-time mapping solution, Live Map, which stitches RGB and thermal imagery on the edge using iOS devices – providing instant insights on the job site. Their newly released enterprise cloud capabilities provide management and security tools necessary to scale drone operations across large organizations. Also, DroneDeploy’s App Market now has more than 80 software integrations, making it the largest drone data ecosystem on the planet.

“We started DroneDeploy to make drones accessible tools to everyone, and we’ve since become the world’s largest commercial drone software platform by providing drone software that’s both easy to use, and powerful. With this new funding round, we have the opportunity to work with more customers who will bring our platform to new industries, and transform workflows on every job site.” – Cofounder and CEO of DroneDeploy, Mike Winn.