Lausanne-based Flybotix, a robotics firm specialising in drone-based options for the inspection of confined-space of business and civilian property, introduced that it has raised nearly €8.5 million in a Sequence A extension spherical.
The financing was led by a household workplace with a robust concentrate on know-how investments, with the participation of present buyers led by Greeneering Make investments AG.
“This financing represents a serious milestone for Flybotix. We’re thrilled to welcome our new buyers and deeply grateful for the continued assist of our present ones. This vote of confidence within the Flybotix staff, backed by new funding, will assist speed up the worldwide deployment of the ASIO resolution, improve its capabilities, and allow us to ship safer, extra environment friendly inspection options for industries the place reliability is important,” stated Samir Bouabdallah, CEO & Co-Founding father of Flybotix.
Based in 2019 by Samir Bouabdallah and Alexandre Cherpillod, Flybotix’s mission is to cut back dangers for people & the planet.
Its flagship ASIO resolution combines superior, patented drone know-how with a devoted SaaS platform, reportedly enabling safer and extra environment friendly inspections throughout a number of sectors equivalent to power manufacturing and water infrastructure. With the longest flight time in the marketplace, better payload capability, and an built-in software program ecosystem that delivers actionable insights, ASIO seems to be to set a brand new normal for industrial inspection.
In response to the corporate, confined area inspections are nonetheless among the many most harmful duties, with accidents and deaths reported yearly. Flybotix’s ASIO X drone reduces the necessity for staff to enter crucial property equivalent to water infrastructure, energy crops, and oil & gasoline services, considerably enhancing security.
It additionally permits inspections to be carried out extra frequently and with increased precision, serving to operators establish integrity points early and forestall pricey downtime and even large-scale failures equivalent to sinkholes.
Since its inception, Flybotix has made important strides, together with the launch in summer time 2024 of the ASIO X, its second-generation drone-based resolution, that builds on the corporate’s know-how and provides Flybotix personal SaaS providing.
The corporate has additionally broadened its distributor community to greater than 30 nations and established partnerships with municipalities and huge teams throughout numerous sectors.
The extra funding will allow Flybotix to scale the commercialisation pipeline, speed up product improvement and develop its staff to satisfy rising demand for safer and extra environment friendly indoor inspections.
