The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Wingtra: 1 model, $22.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
CategoryDrones
Appears inInspection & survey drones
Overview
Wingtra is a Zurich-based drone developer spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, building professional aerial surveying and mapping systems. The company has 2,000+ customers globally, 100,000+ annual flights mapping 18 million acres, and raised $42M in total funding including a $22M Series B. Wingtra's VTOL drones enable cost-efficient surveying for Construction, agriculture, and environmental monitoring.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries B post-money
Key facts
Robot
Technology
Focus
Total fundingsee investors →
Customers
Annual flights
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Maximilian Boosfeld Co-Founder & CEOsince 2014-01-01secondary-verified
- Basil Weibel Co-Foundersince 2014-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Maximilian Boosfeldcofounderfounded 2014-01-01
- Basil Weibelcofounderfounded 2014-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Wingtra.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Wingtra in third-party press
Peers
99 peers across 1 segment. Every Wingtra competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
drone(99)
57 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 1809.2177305910177) · leader Anduril Industries at 3057%
- AEVEX Aerospacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATL Global Holding AGdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aereodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AeroVironmentdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgXeeddirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AirForestrydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $22.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (2)
- Series B12024-08-01
Investors: ACE (follow), Cadence Growth Capital (follow), Brick and Mortar Ventures (follow), European Innovation Council Fund (follow), DiamondStream Partners (follow), EquityPitcher (follow), Helvetic Trust (follow), Verve Ventures (follow)
- Series B2023-01-01
$22M(reported) · $176M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Wingtra’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B1 funding round
2024-08-01Series B1
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2023-01-01Series B raising $22000000
Key hireMaximilian Boosfeld joins as Co-Founder & CEO
2014-01-01Maximilian Boosfeld appointed Co-Founder & CEO (current)
Key hireBasil Weibel joins as Co-Founder
2014-01-01Basil Weibel appointed Co-Founder (current)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Wingtra.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Skydio6 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Wingtra from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Wingtra Unveils WingtraRAY: A New Drone to Transform Aerial Surveying
Wingtra unveiled WingtraRAY, a new surveying drone covering 400 acres per field hour, building on the company's VTOL platform for professional mapping and surveying.
Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing 2M
Swiss VTOL mapping drone startup Wingtra raised 2 million in a Series B round to improve its technology and expand operations in surveying and aerial mapping.
Wingtra: Funding, Team & Investors
Wingtra raised $22M in Series B funding in 2023, bringing total funding to $42M, with 2,000+ customers globally and 100,000+ annual flights mapping 18 million acres.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/wingtra.md
- RSS feed: /companies/wingtra/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e6774114-cc7f-4341-bd50-59509e3b57ce
- Revision history: /companies/wingtra/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Skydio6 models
- SIYI Technology5 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
Video
The Wingtra RAY is a powerful VTOL surveying drone that combines helicopter-like takeoff with airplane-style flight.
https://wingtra.com/ Wingtra has developed an unmanned aerial robot that flies like an airplane, and takes off and lands vertically like a helicopter. With the
EUAS EVP Randall Warnas joins Chris Kenney, Wingtra US Channel Manager, to discuss the exciting capabilities of this unique VTOL aircraft. For more information
On the hottest day of the year (25th July 2019) the COPTRZ team took the Wingtra One Inspection Drone down to Ladybower Reservoir for a product demonstration wi
Meet the engineers and roboticists building Wingtra's surveying drones and software. They talk about the problems they solve, the culture of learning, and why t
See how WSP—a global engineering firm—uses Wingtra LIDAR to track earthworks and cut-fill volume changes at a major highway construction site in Raleigh, North
When US drone policy changes put DJI-based mapping workflows at risk, a drone mapping operator needed a system that could keep projects moving. In this story,
See how WingtraRAY with the INSPECT payload detects millimeter-level cracks across entire airports, runways, railways, and roads in a single flight. This video
This summer, Tom Scott and his team spent time in Cornwall where they used Hot Robotics kit to map 172 hectares of land around the UK’s most notorious ‘natural’
Meet WingtraRAY—your all-in-one solution for compliant and cost-effective aerial surveying. Whether you're flying over busy city streets or remote job sites, Wi
Discover Wingtra, the Swiss-made drone that is transforming industries like agriculture, construction and mining with its groundbreaking technology. With its fi
DJI es un gigante tecnológico chino con una posición establecida en el mercado de drones de consumo. El Matrice 300 RTK (M300) es su solución para vuelos de rec
WingtraOne - the Aerial robots for efficient use of resources. Wingtra develops high-tech drones – fully autonomous, vertically launching & landing robots – to
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Wingtra draws attention at the 28th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 3, 2026