Tekever Raises $23M For Industrial Drone Technology Optimized For Maritime Surveillance

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Today, a company focused specifically on developing AI for drones for maritime deployments is announcing a round of funding after seeing strong demand for its devices and services. The company first set out to build the technology to read its terrain — in its case, bodies of water — and then built drones fit for the purpose of making its software work. Tekever — based, fittingly, in historic maritime superpower Lisbon, Portugal — was founded back in 2001 and has only been offering commercial services since 2018. As an example of how Tekever is used, both the European Maritime Security Agency (EMSA) and the United Kingdom’s Home Office customers, but so are smaller African republics. The objective is that you should be able to act before something bad happens,” and, because Tekever is also using predictive analytics, to preview what will come. Going forward, there is a vast amount — a sea, even — of ways that Tekever might develop its technology. It invested in a Brazilian drone company, Santos Lab, several years ago, giving it a foothold in that part of the world.“Tekever is a very unconventional UAS company and a market leader with outclass technology, thousands of hours of operational experience, a seasoned leadership team and a phenomenal and profitable business vision in a fast-growing market,” said Mo El Husseiny, managing partner at Ventura Capital, in a statement. “These attributes have made it a flagship investment for Ventura, aligned to our portfolio of disruptors in technology.”“Tekever is one of the hottest European Deeptech scaleups, and we’re very proud to continue working with the team and helping them disrupt the global market” added Diogo Chalbert Santos, a partner at Iberis Capital.