MTS is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investments for startups. It was founded in 2012 by Matteo Daste, Alberto Onetti, and Marco Marinucci and is based in California.

Mind the Seed - MTS Fund

Third Sphere is Pre-Seed and Seed stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.   Fund strategy: Climate action - Track record of over 100 portfolio companies that unlock GHG reduction and resilience via strategies like electrification that don’t ask for premiums, just better products and services such as Cove Tool (building design), OneWheel (consumer EV), and Gradient (home hvac). First-in Capital - focus on ownership in pre-seed/seed stage teams and markets where we can help unlock institutional funding and multiple opportunities to expand ownership before Series A.  Earned access - GPs (Shaun, Stonly, and Shilpi) have 9 years together with public reputation and ranks including; top 1% of investors on NFX for climatetech; #1 ranked early stage fund by Climate 50; named in the  top 10 of VCs who founders love the most by Techcrunch   Repeatable differentiation - Proprietary curated network with over 12k people, enabling 1k annual 1:1 introductions, along with access to asset finance.

Third Sphere

Sherpalo is a mentor capital firm that supports the development and commercialization of early-stage disruptive new technologies.  To guide and mentor exceptional entrepreneurs in taking their disruptive ideas and technology and turning them into successful businesses.  They're looking for innovative entrepreneurs with an idea - a great idea - who have started to gather a team, develop a plan, and design the defensible technology to bring the idea to fruition.  Building a business can be a rugged experience. Young companies face numerous challenges as they seek to grow and gain traction. For Founder leaders it is invaluable to have an experienced sherpa guide to share the load and make success come a little easier, perhaps a little faster and with fewer mistakes.  They've done this before at Netscape, Amazon, and Google - some of the foremost online companies of the decade. Ram Shriram and Sherpalo can help guide your enterprise to the summit by providing assistance in; a) Identifying and hiring key management personnel; b) Making the right product choices; c) Defining and adapting your business model to changing market conditions; d) Identifying appropriate market entry points; e) Helping you to secure early customer wins; f) Building momentum from a standing start; g) Generating international growth; h) Providing an independent and pragmatic voice of reason and making necessary judgment calls when you don't have all the facts.  Sherpalo works with only a few outstanding teams each year, in order to devote the time, energy and resources required to guide a fledgling company to the summit of business success.

Sherpalo Ventures

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

Qualcomm Ventures

Google Ventures invests in sectors including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, Google Ventures focuses on long-term investments. Its operating partners assist startups in design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering and help them connect with Google for technology and expertise. Founded in 2009 as Google Ventures, Google Ventures manages over $8 billion in assets with 400 active portfolio companies in North America and Europe. Some notable investments include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, and One Medical. Google Ventures is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Google Ventures

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a technology venture capital firm investing in some of the strongest growth areas to date, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, enterprise cloud software, and crowdfunding. The firm identifies and invests in technology and technology-enabled companies at its inception across geographies and emerging industries.  With three partners and an acceleration team of 20+ investment and operations professionals, ffVC actively participates with founders to develop products, target markets, and accelerate growth. Since 2008, ffVC has invested in over 100 companies and has helped to create companies with an aggregate market value exceeding $6 billion.

ff Venture Capital

A seed stage firm that focuses on investing in science-driven startups.

SK Ventures

Bee Partners is a pre-seed deep tech venture firm.  We write Founders their first check and partner on their journey from zero to one.  These founders have the smarts, grit, and humanity to create the machines of tomorrow in AI/ML, Robotics, Automation, Synthetic Biology, and more.   Bee Partners is a collective of builders, designers, entrepreneurs, operators, and technologists with experience across big tech, startups, [research labs] and more.  We share a common goal: to deliver outcomes in the form of customers, ROI and venture-scale returns for our Founders, enterprise partners, and investors.  Our approach has led the portfolio to a 60%+ matriculation rate to Series A. Bee’s portfolio companies realize accelerated growth and have secured over $1.8B in follow-on capital from the world's top VCs.

Bee Partners

AMINO Capital is a global venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, with investment theme of data moat and network effect.  With over $1 billion in capital under management, Amino has funded hundreds of companies in seed-to-growth stages across Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, and Web3, including 35 successful exits, around 20 unicorns and over 35 companies which are valued over $100M, such as Chime, Webflow, Rippling, Grail, Weee, Replit, Turing, Dfinity, OmiseGo, Oasis Labs, Instawork, Wetravel, AIFI.io, Wyze, Writesonic, D-Matrix and Beacons.ai.

Amino Capital

SierraMaya360 is a full-service early stage venture capital firm. Our team is comprised of industry veterans with an extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Silicon Beach. Our experience, network and expertise gives us a critical advantage to identify innovative opportunities long before they bubble up as global trends.   Our firm was founded to leverage the success of angel fund Sierra Maya Ventures, which won Top Newcomer to Venture Capital 2014- North America by Wealth and Finance International Magazine and has been consistently ranked as a top-tier Angel/Seed fund.

SierraMaya360

Avalon’s long-standing and successful focus has been on seed and early stage companies, including many it formed in the life science and information technology sectors.  We believe this is the most challenging and rewarding period of company creation – we are former entrepreneurs driven by passionate people pursuing disruptive ideas in ever changing market environments.

Avalon Ventures

Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries. It offers AutoCAD software, a computer-aided design application for professional design, drafting, detailing, and visualization; AutoCAD LT, a professional drafting and detailing software; Autodesk Building Design Suites to manage various phases of design and construction; Autodesk Revit products that provide model-based design and documentation systems; Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suites; AutoCAD Civil 3D products for surveying, designing, analysis, and documentation; AutoCAD Map 3D software, which offers direct access to data needed for infrastructure planning, design, and management; Autodesk Product Design Suites for digital prototyping; Autodesk Inventor that allows manufacturers to go beyond 3D design to digital prototyping; AutoCAD Mechanical software to accelerate the mechanical design process; and Autodesk Moldflow family of injection molding simulation software; Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max software products for 3D modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and compositing solutions as well as Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Smoke, and Autodesk Lustre software applications that offer editing, finishing, and visual effects design and color grading solutions. Autodesk, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Rafael, California.

Autodesk

Founded in 2000, Industry Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on making venture capital investments. The firm makes investments through secondary opportunities, primary fund investments and direct co-investments in venture-backed companies. The firm has $3.5B in AUM and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Industry Ventures

Entrée Capital provides multi-stage funding for innovative start-ups and companies all over the world.

Entrée Capital

Beijing Sumavision Co., Ltd. is a Chinese high-tech company that provides digital TV software and systems.  Sumavision is the only company that can provide digital TV complete system solutions and one-stop service. Its front-end hardware products took first place in the domestic market share for seven successive years, and also took 50% of the market share in national digital TV translation provinces. The products of Sumavision are used in 43 provinces and regions in China, and over 40 national and provincial broadcast and TV arterial grid or centering systems, as well as over 700 TV city and county stations. Its market share takes the lead among similar Chinese products. In the overseas market, Sumavision's products have been imported to over 70 countries and regions. At present, the volume of trade in Europe and North America takes one third of the whole volume of overseas trade.  As of March 2000, Sumavision has a registered capital of 112 million RMB. In 2010, Sumavision successfully got listed on China's Growth Enterprise Market. Currently, Sumavision has a market value of about 7 billion. It is also financed by Beijing Gehua Cable TV Network, Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermediary, and TusPark.

Sumavision

Komatsu has engaged in the mining equipment business since its foundation in 1921. In the 1990s the Company expanded by acquiring selected mining equipment manufacturing and distribution businesses operating in major mining regions. Today, Komatsu's annual revenue of 450 billion yen from mining equipment business is generated by surface mining equipment only, as the Company's portfolio does not include equipment for underground mining. Further, the Company's product lineup does not include super large-sized loading equipment for surface mining.

Komatsu

MS&AD Ventures is an early-stage venture fund focused on big data businesses related to the insurance industry. It specializes in the fields of venture capital, financial services, and finance. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

MS&AD Ventures

Wavemaker Group is a multi-faceted cross border venture capital firm founded in 2003. The firm is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore and has raised over $580M across multiple funds. We currently have a team of 70 people across both sides of our practice. Wavemaker is one of the most active early-stage investors in Southern California and Southeast Asia and has invested in over 360 companies in the last 17 years.

Wavemaker Partners

ADB Ventures is a new venture platform that will support and invest in startups offering impact technology solutions that contribute in SDG's in Asia and the Pacific.

ADB Ventures

I2BF Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in 2005, I2BF Global Ventures has $400M+ under managment and it is currently investing from its fifth fund. The mission of I2BF Global Ventures is to seek out innovative and competitive companies across SaaS, Hardware Enabled B2B solutions (AI, IoT, AR, VR, robotics, RPA & automation), Digital Healthcare, and New Media, which it believes can lead the path to a brighter future. Since the first investment in 2006, I2BF Global Ventures has successfully backed 60+ startups and exited 12 companies. In keeping with its worldwide investment focus, I2BF Global Ventures retains a team of technology and sector experts in New York, London, and Los Angeles. This impressive team ensures a truly global venture capital strategy and a hands-on management approach.

I2BF Global Ventures

Falkon Ventures is an innovative venture capital fund designed to catalyze innovation in the new entrepreneurial landscape for companies that have the mission to change industry and the world. Their ventures create technologies that are providing systemic solutions to big global and industrial challenges. Falkon Ventures offers a new solution in the current venture funding landscape that provides entrepreneurs with support networks and strategic funding that is founder-friendly while creating alignment with all stakeholders involved.  Falkon works with some of the most impressive founders and ventures in the world. Falkon Ventures supports these teams with a method and approach that provides resources and support structures that are intentionally tailored to the unique characteristics and needs of every different venture.  The venture capital approach intelligently puts in the place the economic levers and resources that align focus on disciplined scale, growth, profitability, defensibility, and value. The Falkon Method removes the guess-work traditionally associated with a venture to create more intelligent, effective, and intentional business decisions. It creates higher visibility on the viability of a venture's value network and identifies specifically which support networks and resources are needed to increase the venture's probability for success.

Falkon Ventures

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date.  The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

WND Ventures is focused on changing the way things are done in the AEC industry. Working with entrepreneurs to prototype and implement solutions, we aim to make our industry attractive for technology talent, provide a platform to incubate ideas, and deliver more meaningful value to customers. WND pairs deep industry expertise with access to real-world projects where solutions can be implemented and tested rapidly to not only enhance design and construction but also support the full life-cycle of buildings.

WND Ventures

WVCC is a group of accredited investors who co-invest alongside VCs or angel groups in the US.

Wealthing VC Club

Skycatch

Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Skycatch is a technology company that provides aerial data capture automation, processing, visualization, and analysis tools. Its primary focus is on the mining sector, where it offers an all-in-one solution for drone survey and highwall mapping. This solution includes a kit for UAV mapping, data processing, and drone analytics, which can be operational within 30 minutes.

Drone Mapping Software

Taking commercial activities to new heights

Commercial Drone Tech

Skycatch Launches Proprietary 3D and 4D Software for the M300 at MINExpo, Delivering End to End Power and 24x Faster Data Processing at the Edge

Skycatch is a technology company that provides aerial data capture automation, processing, visualization, and analysis tools. Its primary focus is on the mining sector, where it offers an all-in-one solution for drone survey and highwall mapping. This solution includes a kit for UAV mapping, data processing, and drone analytics, which can be operational within 30 minutes.
Skycatch's technology is designed to provide the fastest time to data in the market, eliminating the need for ground control points (GCPs) for safer data capture. It enables offline processing in the field or in the cloud, with proven accuracy of 5cm on all axes. The company's solution offers precise, high-fidelity 3D models of vertical surfaces, automatic creation of point clouds, automatic reprojection into site coordinate systems, and automatic removal of objects. Additionally, Skycatch provides advanced accuracy training and certification, as well as 24/7 enterprise support.

SeekOps Inc. is a global leader in greenhouse gas emissions detection, quantification, and reporting solutions. The company deploys advanced sensor technology and state-of-the-art unmanned aerial systems equipped with its proprietary SeekIR sensors to detect, localize, and accurately quantify methane emissions. SeekOps' autonomous drones leverage parts-per-billion sensitive sensors and leverage autonomous operations for efficient, repeatable, and consistent greenhouse gas emission surveys, facilitating rapid leak detection and quantification (LDAQ).
SeekOps' technology has received regulatory approval from various authorities, including the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment for use as an Alternative Approved Instrument Measurement Method (Alt. AIMM) in February 2024, making it the first unmanned aerial system to receive such approval. In September 2022, SeekOps' technology was approved as part of an Alternative Fugitive Emission Management Program (Alt-FEMP) submitted by Repsol to the Alberta Energy Regulator.
The company's solutions are field-proven and have been deployed in emissions quantification surveys worldwide, supporting leading operators and meeting the highest standards, such as OGMP 2.0 and MiQ. In August 2023, SeekOps adapted NASA's technology, originally developed for the Mars Curiosity Rover, to measure methane emissions in the North Sea, demonstrating the versatility of its approach.
SeekOps' solutions have been instrumental in helping operators understand their emissions inventory and adopt cost-effective abatement tools, contributing to decarbonization efforts in the oil and gas industry.

SeekOps

Cando Drones is an Israeli company that provides advanced drone operations and management solutions. It specializes in organizing airspace, handling regulations, characterizing, selecting, and integrating drone systems, as well as managing ground logistics, training, and technical support. Cando Drones offers turnkey solutions that enable the exploitation of drone capabilities for various needs.
The company has demonstrated its expertise in delivering autonomous drone flights using different platforms. In April 2024, Cando Drones partnered with High Lander Aviation and Sentrycs to showcase an autonomous security solution at Caesarea Business Park. This system demonstrated rapid response protocols against simulated threats, utilizing High Lander's Orion drone fleet management platform.
Additionally, in April 2024, Cando Drones collaborated with High Lander to execute the first drone flight using Pelephone's new 5G MAX network, marking a significant milestone in drone connectivity and scalability in Israel. Cando Drones also played a pivotal role in the Israel National Drone Initiative, conducting various test flights across the country, including delivery flights, night flights, and traffic monitoring activities.

Cando Drones

MissionGO is a leading provider of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) solutions and services. The company specializes in critical infrastructure inspections and cargo delivery operations. MissionGO utilizes its advanced UAS platform, the MGV100, to perform comprehensive inspections of various infrastructure assets, including power lines, transmission poles, pipelines, and construction cranes. The MGV100 is a single-rotor, all-electric aircraft designed for long-endurance flights, with a range of up to 30 miles and a flight time exceeding one hour.MissionGO's infrastructure inspection services offer a safer, more reliable, and environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional manual inspections. The company's UAS inspections minimize hazards, increase data quality and quantity, and provide detailed reports on asset conditions. MissionGO's cargo delivery operations involve transporting critical medical supplies, fresh produce, emergency kits, and other essential items to remote areas using its autonomous unmanned helicopters.In addition to its core services, MissionGO offers UAS training programs for first responders, helping them obtain FAA commercial pilot licenses and develop skills for various operational scenarios. The company has achieved significant milestones, including publishing the MGV100's FAA Airworthiness Criteria in the Federal Register in September 2022, a crucial step toward Type Certification and enabling advanced UAS operations.In October 2022, MissionGO secured a three-year, USD 50 million contract with Southern California Edison, one of the largest UAS services contracts globally, to inspect nearly 160,000 utility poles. This contract builds on MissionGO's successful partnership with Southern California Edison since 2019, during which the company conducted over 6,500 sorties and cataloged more than 1,200 flight hours, capturing data from 24,000 poles without any incidents.

MissionGo

Zing Drone Solutions is a company that specializes in developing innovative drone technology solutions. Their primary offering is the Z-RID, a proprietary Remote ID Broadcast Module that ensures compliance with FAA regulations for public safety and commercial drone operators. Launched in October 2023, the Z-RID received FAA Declaration of Compliance (DOC) Approval, making it compatible with various DJI enterprise and commercial drone models.
Recognizing the financial challenges faced by drone pilots due to the high costs of existing Remote ID modules, Zing Drone Solutions introduced the Z-RID Lite in January 2024. The Z-RID Lite is an affordable, stripped-down version of the original Z-RID, focusing solely on providing Remote ID compliance functionality. This innovative solution aims to make FAA regulation adherence accessible to all drone pilots, fostering a safer and more regulated airspace.
Zing Drone Solutions' commitment to innovation aligns with the needs of the drone community. The Z-RID Lite weighs only 30 grams and features GNSS positioning and Bluetooth four + five broadcasting capabilities, making it a lightweight and user-friendly solution for drone compliance.

Zing Drone Solutions

InDro Robotics is a leading Canadian company specializing in robotics research and development, as well as providing complex drone and ground robotic solutions, services, and training. Their expertise lies in engineering autonomous robots and drones for diverse applications, including complex operations, data collection, surveillance, and delivery services. InDro Robotics aims to make difficult work more efficient through innovative robotics.
The company serves as a manufacturer, integrator, and distributor of unmanned systems. For ground operations, they offer unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) from AgileX Robotics integrated with their proprietary InDro Commander technology. Additionally, they provide quadruped robots from Unitree Robotics equipped with the InDro Backpack integration. In the aerial domain, InDro Robotics distributes drones from various manufacturers and incorporates their InDro Pilot technology, enabling real-time data transfer over 5G for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) missions and onboard processing for autonomous operations.
InDro Robotics' solutions encompass a wide range of capabilities, including local computing, teleoperation, and autonomous functionality. Their robots can be outfitted with autonomy software developed in-house or tailored to clients' specific requirements. The company has completed over 7,000 mission hours, flown more than 4,000 kilometers, and executed over 400,000 safe and compliant flights across multiple countries.
In September 2023, InDro Robotics announced a strategic partnership with Invest Ottawa, taking over the management of Bayview Yards Prototyping Lab, rebranded as InDro Forge. This state-of-the-art facility offers prototyping services, including 3D metal printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and computational rendering, enabling clients to bring their ideas from concept to completion.

InDro Robotics

Startups that provide drone-based services for a variety of use cases  (excluding payload delivery)

Startups providing cloud-based software solutions for gathering data via drones and leverage AI to provide analytics and insights

Startups providing cloud-based platforms for managing drone-based activities

Startups providing other services relating to drone operations including drone hangars, charging systems, insurance, and pilot marketplaces

Startups that provide and end-to-end solution for drone based-applications. Typically also provides drone pilot training programmes and managed services

Provides solutions for the operation of drones in an urban environment

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