General Aeronautics (GA), a specialist in Drones for precision agriculture, has announced a INR 65 million pre-series A financing led by Mela Ventures. With the investment, GA will expand its go-to market programs, and will continue to invest in the areas of high reliability and efficient spraying, operational support including training Drone Pilots.
GA was started by an aircraft designer and Padma Sri awardee Dr. Kota Harinarayana and Abhishek Burman along with Dr. Anutosh Moitra & Air Cmde P K Choudhary (Retd.).
“Future food security has become a major global concern and hence there is a movement towards making agriculture more sustainable with lesser use of harmful chemicals by making the input delivery process more efficient and precise. Many countries have moved to aerial spraying practices which is highly efficient and also reduces the hazardous impact of manual spraying. GA is in the forefront of drone-based agriculture technologies and has indigenously developed and validated a world-class solution to improve input application efficiency multi-fold. We believe that agriculture in many countries including India, is ready to use such cost-effective technologies to improve the yield – which will benefit the farmers and humanity at large,” said Abhishek Burman CEO and co-founder of GA.
“GA’s indigenous solution based on strong internal R&D can immensely benefit all the ecosystem partners in the field of agriculture in India. GA’s successful trials with many partners demonstrates that the solutions are world-class. We see the market potential to be huge as the Governments across the world are moving at speed to clear regulations for the use of drones. We see a great potential in “Team GA” and we are thrilled to be partnering with them,” said Parthasarathy N.S, Managing Partner, Mela Ventures.
In conjunction with the investment round, Parthasarathy NS will be joining GA’s board of directors.
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