Top 10 Robotics and Drones Capital Raises and Investors in the U.S. – July 1st-15th, 2025
Several interesting transactions closed in the Robotics and Drones sector over the past two weeks. If you would like more info on these deals or would like to discuss the capital raising market for your company, please contact me.
PIPE
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- Unusual Machines, engaged in serving the American drone industry by building and selling drone components, received $48.5 million in development capital through a private placement.
Later Stage VC
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- Agility Robotics, a bipedal walking robot company that offers efficient, agile, and robust legged platforms for real-world applications, raised Series C3 venture funding from Hillside Enterprises & V11.
- EndoQuest Robotics, a company that develops flexible robotic devices performing procedures inside the body using the natural lumens and operating scar-free, raised $59 million through a combination of Series D-1 and Series D-2 venture funding in a deal led by Crescent Enterprises Invests and other investors.
- Xtend Defense, an autonomous drone system that performs accurate maneuvers and actions in any scenario, indoors and outdoors, raised $70 million in Series B venture funding in a deal led by The Chartered Group, Protego Ventures and Aliya Capital Partners.
- Zing, a drone delivery platform that provides autonomous delivery services to businesses and residential users, raised $852,759 of venture funding in the form of convertible promissory notes.
Early Stage VC
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- Askari Defense, a counter-drone platform based in Chattanooga, United States, raised $1.54 million of venture funding in the form of SAFE notes from Brickyard, Knoll Ventures and other investors.
- Cobionix, an autonomous robotics platform that performs procedural tasks, raised $3 million of venture funding in a deal led by TitletownTech.
- Mundane, a robotics company that provides plug-and-play service robot software for commercial cleaning, raised venture funding from Sarah Smith Fund.
Seed and Grant
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- UMA, a robotics company that develops robots that adapt and work with people, raised seed funding from ALM Ventures.
- Luminous (Machinery (B2B)), a robotics company that develops embodied AI robotic systems for industrial applications, received AUD 4.9 million in grant funding from Australian Renewable Energy Agency as a part of ARENA’s $100 million Solar ScaleUp Challenge.
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Gary Levy
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Over 30 years in financial services, including senior roles at Citi, Ivy Asset Management (an Affiliate of BNY) and TIAA. Founder and President of Biltmore Savings Consultants, a provider of B2B technology solutions to improve operations. Author of published book "21 Ways to Improve Your Business Operations." MBA - Strategic Business Management from Hofstra University’s Frank G. Zarb School of Business. BS (with a concentration in Business, Management and Economics) from SUNY Empire State College. Series 7, 63 and 79 licenses.
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