Edgybees offers a Visual Intelligence Platform that geotags and augments aerial and live video streams in real time to register and track assets. Its Argus product, launched about a year ago, makes it easier for users to bring their own drones and live video to the company’s geo‑registration engine. Typical customers include first responders looking to track assets and personnel during emergencies; the company also targets defense, insurance, industrial drone users and other commercial use cases such as sports visualization. Edgybees says its mission is to ensure positive human outcomes during life‑saving missions and to expand its global footprint. The company began in Israel and is now based in San Diego. Financially, Edgybees announced a $9.5M Series A following a $5.5M seed round announced almost exactly two years earlier. Edgybees develops AR software that overlays road names, personnel locations, vehicles and other assets onto drone video feeds to improve situational awareness for emergency teams. The Santa Clara–based startup’s system has been used by responders during Northern California wildfires and Florida hurricane floods. The company originally demonstrated its technology in a racing-game application with DJI, and has since focused on commercial and industrial drone uses in fire, public safety and search-and-rescue. Edgybees plans to expand its AR platform to additional platforms and verticals including defense, smart cities, automotive and broadcast media. Leadership includes co-founder and CEO Adam Kaplan and CTO Menashe Haskin, formerly head of Amazon’s Prime Air office in Israel. Financially, the company recently closed a $5.5 million seed funding round to support that expansion.

Total raised

$15M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Feb 2021