Airware Announces $10.7M Round of Series A Funding, Led By Andreessen Horowitz with Google Ventures ParticipatingNew Funding Advances Mission to Provide a Universal Platform for the Safe and Reliable Operation of Drones for Commercial UseNewport Beach, Calif., May 15, 2013 – Airware, creators of a universal development platform for commercial...
Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz Wednesday announced a $10.7 million investment in Airware, a company that is creating a common platform for drones that will allow developers to create industry-specific applications for unmanned aerial vehicles without worrying about the specific underlying hardware. The company is run by Jonathan Downey, 29, who wants to be...
Drones cannot yet be flown commercially in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs from moving into the sector.Drone startup Airware has raised $10.7 million in Series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Google GOOG +2.46% Ventures. Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz is joining the board. The...
American skies aren’t supposed to open for another couple of years to drones flown by commercial operators, but they’re already getting liftoff with Silicon Valley investors.On Wednesday, a drone start-up called Airware plans to announce that it has raised $10.7 million in a round of financing led by the venture...
The drones are coming. But rather than hovering over our homes in some big-brother scenario, they’ll be checking farmers’ crops, inspecting power lines, fighting forest fires and delivering medicines and vaccines in rural Africa.Those are just some of the customers and markets in which Newport Beach, California-based startup Airware plays...
