{"id":68152,"date":"2016-04-20T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=68152"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T06:04:09","slug":"precisionhawk","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/precisionhawk","title":{"rendered":"PrecisionHawk Raises $18 Million to Help Companies Use Commercial Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1462\/25939406004_a769b1bf18_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"199\" \/>Flying drones in the US is risky business at the moment. PrecisionHawk wants to help.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian-born company has raised a Series C round to the tune of $18 million USD, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/20\/precisionhawk-raises-18-million-to-bring-drones-safely-into-u-s-airspace\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports TechCrunch<\/a>, to help companies use drones for commercial purposes without running into legal troubles&mdash;or other drones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/drone-valley-2015-04-13\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s Huge Opportunity to Become &#8216;Drone Valley&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PrecisionHawk, now based in North Carolina, wants to become the go-to provider of data and safety services for the rapidlu growing commercial drone industry, according to CEO Bob Young. Its services include DataMapper, a cloud-based data analytics product, and LATAS, which helps operators track, verify, and report flights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying drones in the US is risky business at the moment. PrecisionHawk wants to help. The Canadian-born company has raised a Series C round to the tune of $18 million USD, reports TechCrunch, to help companies use drones for commercial purposes without running into legal troubles&mdash;or other drones. RELATED: Canada&#8217;s Huge Opportunity to Become &#8216;Drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":68154,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-68152","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/68152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68152"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=68152"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=68152"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=68152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}