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DRONEII: 2019 Drone Investments Break New Records – Who Were the Major Winners?

March 12, 2020 by staff 12 Comments

 

2019 drone investments broke industry records – but the big winners might surprise you.

Guest post: This article republished with permission from our friends at DRONEII.  Article authored by Hendrik Bödecker.  Find more information on DRONEII’s Drone Market Investment Report here.

Rounding off another fiscal year, we bring you the key trends and developments in drone investments in 2019.

1. Another Year, Another Record – Drone Investments in 2019

2019 was a record-breaking year in many ways. The total yearly investment value not only broke last year’s record but also surpassed the billion mark, as $1.2 billion was invested into the drone industry in 2019. As our graphic shows, venture capital (VC) investments once again made up a large portion of this sum. And indeed VC deals also broke the record in 2019, with $830 million invested, up from $679 million in 2018. Finally, eleven years since our first recorded drone industry investment, we can now say that a whopping $4.443 billion has been invested into the drone market.

2020 Outlook: As the market continues to grow, we expect 2020 to be yet another record-breaking year, with both overall and VC deals reaching new highs. We also expect to see the continued trend not the number of investment deals growing drastically but the value of each investment instead.

2. Passenger Drone Companies Are Cashing In

If there were to be an obvious “winner” according to investment figures of 2019, it would be the passenger drone companies. In order to showcase the vast differences in cash injections into different sectors of the drone industry, this year we split it four ways into: drone, passenger drone, counter-drone and UTM companies. These four sectors are currently in vastly different maturity stages, as well as at different points in the Gartner Hype Cycle and likely to experience very different technological and regulatory hurdles.

Undoubtedly, as carriers of humans, passenger drones are and will continue to be subject to the very strictest certification and regulation requirements as well as the highest technological hurdles. It is precisely because of this that companies are still in the R&D and prototype manufacturing stage, the one which requires the most money. Combine that with the hype around Urban Air Mobility (UAM), and unsurprisingly passenger drone companies are cashing in more than all the UTM and counter-drone companies combined!

2020 Outlook: This sector will become increasingly popular not only in terms of the rising number of passenger drone concepts, but also government funding for smart city and UAM initiatives, and the plethora of conferences devoted to the topic. For this reason, we are likely to see passenger drone companies scooping a large portion of the cash again in the coming year. In fact, Joby Aviation alone with their $590 million Series C round in January 2020 has already broken records and is likely to make up a large part of the total of 2020 investments.

Hendrik Bödecker, CFO of DRONEII

Hendrik is an expert in aviation law and UAV with over 10 years of experience in the field. At Lufthansa Technik he was the single point of contact to Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA) of Germany, Middle East and Asia. He used this experience to form the backbone of regulatory expertise at Drone Industry Insights. Not only has he built up a portfolio in assisting clients in regulatory matters, but he also authors DRONEII’s yearly drone investment report.

 

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