smart airspace security startup d drone racing 30 million in
a series C round led by the public safety technology
company Axon. Well the company says it protects organizations
from drone threats by using the advanced hardware and software
technology that it develops to secure their airspace. Startup
solutions are used by hundreds of commercial government and military
customers including the U. S. Department of Defense
. And joining me now is added to A.
D. Deborah Kanda Ceo of Drone 80. Thanks
so much for coming on the show. Give me
some more details about how your company works and just
try to mitigate some of these drone threats. Yeah
, thank you for having me here. Uh we
are you know What I think the market leader in
counter drone technology globally. We operate in 30 plus
countries and um yeah I mean we we we can
it's a bit hard problem. We solve finding a
small drone the size of a little box in a
very large airspace and detect tracking, identifying and mitigating
if you have the capability to do so. So
we do this for hundreds of customers globally. Obviously
the federal government is the largest market for us.
Uh we we serve three for four out of seven
G seven countries. So yeah, we we we
use multi sensory modality. We can detect a drone
with using the R. F. Link we can
detect a drone through a radar, go through a
camera, refuse all that informant. I sense a
platform on the future platform and we provide a simplistic
actionable solution to our customers. So that's that's that's
where we're at and and happy to have raised this
money right now to I yeah, I I know
you want to grow the business. We'll talk more
about how you're gonna grow it here in just a
moment. But of course drone delivery has been such
a hot topic um of later these past five years
or so even pre pandemic. How are you working
with regulators to ensure that this safe is space,
that there aren't bad actors. No, that's great
. So so I think you know, every technology
transition um the cloud be, you know, cell
phones has to be underpinned by security. So we
think that for good drones to take off, people
need to know where the bad drones are. So
it always starts with security. People need to know
that the technology is safe and secure. We work
hand in hand with what we call the U.
T. M providers, which is the actual drone
delivery service providers etcetera. Um and you know,
the regulation is at the heart of all this.
Right? How do you know which drone is right
and which drone is wrong? And how do you
make sure you let them work together? So yeah
, we work with every, you know, B
. D. O J B F A B D
. H. S. We work in the cross
section of regulators in the country and and you know
, we want to provide a safe and reliable platform
on which the drone delivery platforms and such can take
off makes total sense there. So$30 million that
you've raised in a series C around A. D
. I think you're talking about this earlier. Give
me some more details about how you're gonna use that
new funding to grow the company and expand your operations
. Right? Absolutely. So I mean we we're
a technology company, primarily a software hardware, R
. F. Marty sensor fusion company. So the
value creation for us is an engineering isn't building a
better product than anyone else in the market. It's
an asian market. So most of the money is
going to go into hiring more engineers here in the
US hiring of course will help you expand. I
see that any recent announcements as it pertains to working
with the U. S. Defense Department, even
the biden administration to try to get your services in
the hands of the federal government. Absolute. Maybe
one, a couple of our largest deals ever in
the history of the company and the first half of
the year being a security services. Provided we don't
specifically talk about the details but you know, our
job is to make sure we are empowering people to
fly drones safely. Our job is to make sure
we provide the detective track, identify and mitigate capability
in areas where um, you know, drones can
be a threat. The thing with the drone is
you can use it for delivery. But the easiest
thing you can do with the drone is to get
into locations where you don't want to look in and
go into. So the nefarious use of drones is
more than what we would like to believe it is
and it's only growing so so you have to answer
your question. Yeah. So we think that there's
a large market out there with the federal government to
do this. All right, 80 Wakanda Ceo de
drona. Fresh off a new round of funding A
. D. Thanks again for coming out and congratulations --> .