After a 2021 marked by strong growth, especially abroad, Azur Drones has announced a new fundraising of nearly €8 million to support its development in 2022.
This fundraising, conducted with a French private investor, brings the total raised since 2016 to nearly €38 million. It should enable the French SME, leader in drone-in-a-box solutions, to consolidate its leadership.
Diversifying the uses of drone-in-a-box Initially developed and deployed for surveillance applications, the Skeyetech solution is more and more solicited by industrials to carry out various types of missions to support their operations.
It has been deployed for more than 2 years on critical sites of large industrial companies such as TotalEnergies, Orano, Port of Dunkerque, Oiltanking and major players in the chemical industry.
With more than 20,000 autonomous flights and nearly 200 daily users, Skeyetech technology is now mature and proven from the Scandinavian coast to the desert of the United Arab Emirates.
To meet new customer needs, Azur Drones is now expanding the applications of its Skeyetech solution. In 2021, the company’s R&D teams developed a new photogrammetry functionality for a major player in the mining sector, as well as the first autonomous aerial solution for radioactivity detection.
Named SkeyetechDIZI, this solution is a worldwide exclusivity developed in collaboration with Avenir Energy and has been rewarded at the end of 2021 at the World Nuclear Exhibition Awards, a reference in the nuclear industry.
In 2022, Azur Drones intends to continue this diversification for the benefit of the industrial, energy and port sectors, with the launch of new solutions dedicated to industrial inspection and gas detection and quantification.
Accelerating international growth Beyond their borders, Azur Drones has already deployed Skeyetech systems in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The company intends to continue its international deployments thanks to new regulatory authorisations currently being obtained.
Finally, in 2022, growth should be driven by the structuring contracts put in place at the end of 2021, such as the framework agreement with the giant TotalEnergies and the distribution contract for 24 countries signed with the security leader G4S. Continuing to structure the company The fundraising will also enable the company to continue structuring itself in order to cope with the expected increase in deployments.
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