Quantum Techniques raises €160M because it targets international management in aerial intelligence options – sUAS Information

• Europe’s main supplier of superior unmanned aerial intelligence options will speed up R&D funding in AI and software program to help its authorities and business prospects by elevated autonomy
• Enlargement into markets throughout Europe and APAC follows 100% annual income progress, plus acquisitions of AirRobot and Nordic Unmanned UK
• Funding will speed up scale of superior mass manufacturing capabilities

Quantum Techniques – the chief in AI-powered aerial intelligence programs for protection, emergency providers, and trade – has raised €160 million in new funding, led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Hensoldt, Airbus Protection and House, Bullhound Capital, LP&E AG and present traders, together with HV Capital, Mission A, Peter Thiel, DTCP, Omnes Capital, Airbus Ventures, Porsche SE and Notion. The funding, which brings the entire raised by the corporate to €310 million, might be used to speed up international growth, scale manufacturing, and advance the corporate’s autonomous drone programs, software program and AI.

Based in 2015 by a world-class workforce with expertise in drones, robotics, and imagery assortment, Quantum Techniques is setting the benchmark for real-time aerial intelligence for governmental and business makes use of. Its household of modular, dual-use unmanned aerial programs (UAS) convey collectively the newest advances in eVTOL expertise, AI, edge computing, and autonomy to assist prospects make higher choices, quicker and extra precisely.

Fight-proven and commercially relevant

Quantum Techniques’ drones and intelligence programs are at present utilized by NATO-aligned forces – together with these in Germany, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand and Spain. Following the acquisition of Germany’s AirRobot in March, Quantum Techniques is a tier-1 provider to the UK Ministry of Defence. Extra lately, the agency expanded into the UK market with the acquisition of Nordic Unmanned UK, a world supplier of high-end drone services.

Business functions of Quantum Techniques’ options embody mapping drones throughout mining, agriculture, and infrastructure. Notable purchasers embody RocketDNA and the Indian authorities’s Division for Science and Expertise.

Since launching its flagship Vector platform in 2019, Quantum Techniques has repeatedly innovated in response to the rising calls for of its prospects, and the shifting defence and enterprise landscapes. Its newest iteration, Vector AI, debuted earlier this 12 months and has already been combat-tested in Ukraine, providing real-time ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) capabilities in areas the place GPS and communications aren’t obtainable.

The brand new funding follows a number of years of exceeding 100% year-over-year income progress for the corporate, which now has 550 folks throughout websites in Germany, Australia, Ukraine and Romania.

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