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Percepto

Israeli autonomous industrial-Inspection drone-in-a-box company; Percepto Air + AIM platform for energy/utilities/mining; holds among the deepest FAA BVLOS…

Founded
2014
HQ
Modiin, Israel
Status
private (>$120M raised)

The verified answer

As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Percepto: 1 model, 8 deployments across 6 regions, $67.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.

CategoryDrones

Appears inInspection & survey drones

Overview

Israeli autonomous industrial-Inspection drone-in-a-box company; Percepto Air + AIM platform for energy/utilities/mining; holds among the deepest FAA BVLOS waivers (30 drones / single operator).

Verified record

Verified deployments
8 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED
$670M (reported, approximate)as of Jun 2023

Priced roundSeries C post-money

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Key facts

Product

Autonomous drone-in-a-box platform (Percepto Air) for industrial inspection

BVLOS

Among first FAA BVLOS drone-in-a-box waivers (2021); nationwide (2023); 30 drones / 1 operator (Nov 2023).

Target Industries

Energy, utilities, mining

Regulatory

FAA nationwide waiver + EPA approval for OGI emissions inspections (Nov 2025)

Financial stage

Growth — $67M raised, FAA/EPA approved, deploying at industrial sites

Data & sources

Press releases

2

Web sources

1

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Current platform

Percepto Air (AIM)

Percepto, an Israeli company, makes an autonomous industrial-inspection drone-in-a-box system: the Percepto Air drone plus an autonomous base, running the AIM autonomous inspection and monitoring platform that automates capture, AI analysis, and insight for energy, utilities, oil and gas, and mining sites, on more than 120 million dollars of funding including a 67-million-dollar Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies in June 2023. It has the strongest verified beyond-visual-line-of-sight story of the commercial drone set: in 2021 it was among the first to receive an FAA BVLOS waiver for fully autonomous drone-in-a-box operations without on-site personnel, in June 2023 it received a nationwide FAA waiver to operate autonomous BVLOS at US critical-infrastructure sites without site-specific approvals, and in November 2023 it received an FAA waiver to operate up to thirty drones with a single operator and no on-site pilots or radar, described as the holy grail of industrial inspection, with Delek US as a named customer. Its operating model is captive robotics-as-a-service: it sells the drone-in-a-box hardware but the value is the recurring AIM monitoring service, and Percepto holds the regulatory authorizations and runs remote operations. The registry records it at commercial maturity, since verified, repeated, escalating FAA BVLOS authorizations plus named industrial customers clear the gating event most deeply in the commercial set, while noting that total deployed-site and drone counts and recurring revenue are not independently confirmed, and that the Part 108 BVLOS rule remained proposed as of mid-2026 so current operations run on Part 107 waivers.

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Relationships

Current leadership (4)

Founders (4)

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Board (1)

Safety record

No incidents on record for Percepto.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Percepto in third-party press

Peers

101 peers across 2 segments. Every Percepto competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

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