General Aeronautics (GA), a specialist in Drones for precision agriculture, today announced a INR 65 million pre-series A financing led by Mela Ventures. With the investment, GA will expand its go-to market programs, and will continue to invest in the areas of high reliability and efficient spraying, operational support including training Drone Pilots.
GA was started by India’s aircraft designer and Padma Sri awardee Dr. Kota Harinarayana and Abhishek Burman along with Dr. Anutosh Moitra & Air Cmde P K Choudhary (Retd.) to bring the best of the aircraft design practices to the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems and provide efficient, reliable and cost-effective drone systems to address agricultural and other societal needs.
Incubated at the Society for Innovation and Development (SID), the Entrepreneurship Cell of Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, GA has developed indigenous Drone Solution along with unique spray capability with a potential to improve spray efficiency multi-folds. The solution provides best-in-class spray reach and uniformity with unmatched droplet and flow-control. This combined with high reliability and indigenous manufacturing results in highly efficient and cost-effective solutions – removing the drudgery and inefficiencies of manual spraying.
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