Hummingdrone develops autonomous drone and artificial intelligence solutions aimed at improving the performance of solar power plants. Founded in 2019 by Orkun Aşa, the company offers the INSPECT AI platform to deliver detailed performance insights for solar assets. INSPECT is positioned to serve EPC, O&M, OEM firms and solar-plant investors by detecting risks, identifying production losses, and guiding remedial action. The company emphasizes lowering operational costs and increasing return on investment for its partners. Hummingdrone frames its product strategy around accelerating the digital transformation of the solar energy sector and contributing to clean-energy investment impact. Financially, the company recently secured investment at a $2 million valuation in a pre-seed round to advance its solutions and scale operations. Hummingdrone develops autonomous drones and software for industrial inspection, focusing on solar energy assets using drones equipped with thermal and high-resolution cameras and an AI-based image-evaluation platform called INSPECT. The company builds unmanned aerial vehicles and complementary software systems to enable efficient data collection, create digital twins of solar power plants, and automatically detect faults and maintenance needs. Founded by Orkun Asa and Ipek Gorgec in May 2019, the team has been developing drone subsystems since September 2017 and its image-evaluation platform since May 2020. Hummingdrone offers end-to-end auditing and reporting services and works with nearly 20 companies across use cases that include urban mapping, disaster management, agriculture and transmission-line inspection. The company says its inspections prevented approximately $300,000 in production loss last year and that it aims to prevent $50 million in production losses in solar power plants by the end of 2025. The article reports the startup received an investment at a $1.5 million valuation from Keiretsu Forum Turkiye angel investors, and the funding tour is still open.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Nov 2023