Innovate UK

Innovate U.K. is a NPO that offers funding services to support science and technology innovations. The organization offers services and information on births, deaths, marriages, business, self-employed, childcare, parenting, citizenship, law, disabled persons, transportation, education, environment, housing, money, tax, travel, immigration, and jobs. Innovate U.K. is based in Swindon.

Mike Biddle

Programme Director of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Will Drury

Executive Director, Digital and Technologies

Paul Gadd

Deputy Director

Dr. Tom Jenkins

Deputy Director

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Nigel Walker

Deputy Director, Lending and Investor Partnerships

Dave Wilkes

Director of Innovation Ecosystem

Past deals in Drones

Outfield

Grant in 2024
Outfield is an agritech company focused on transforming orchard management through its precision farming platform. By utilizing unmanned drones and advanced image recognition technology, Outfield collects and analyzes data to deliver actionable insights on key aspects such as fruit counts, blossom mapping, crop load management, and yield forecasting. This innovative approach significantly improves the accuracy of yield estimates, reducing common errors from 20% to less than 10%, thereby enhancing productivity and profitability for growers. The platform processes drone-captured images and returns detailed maps and insights to users within 24 hours, allowing for efficient decision-making. Currently, the service is being tested by growers in the UK, New Zealand, and South Africa, who have praised its flexibility and speed. Outfield aims to scale its operations, expand its offerings, and enter new market segments as it addresses the growing demand for sustainable and efficient fruit farming solutions.

Marble Aerospace

Grant in 2023
Marble Aerospace builds hardware and software to protect maritime environments. They use UAV technology to monitor coastal areas for illegal fishing, human, and trafficking. They provide operations, local integration, technology development planning, and deployment services.

Outfield

Grant in 2023
Outfield is an agritech company focused on transforming orchard management through its precision farming platform. By utilizing unmanned drones and advanced image recognition technology, Outfield collects and analyzes data to deliver actionable insights on key aspects such as fruit counts, blossom mapping, crop load management, and yield forecasting. This innovative approach significantly improves the accuracy of yield estimates, reducing common errors from 20% to less than 10%, thereby enhancing productivity and profitability for growers. The platform processes drone-captured images and returns detailed maps and insights to users within 24 hours, allowing for efficient decision-making. Currently, the service is being tested by growers in the UK, New Zealand, and South Africa, who have praised its flexibility and speed. Outfield aims to scale its operations, expand its offerings, and enter new market segments as it addresses the growing demand for sustainable and efficient fruit farming solutions.

Outfield

Grant in 2022
Outfield is an agritech company focused on transforming orchard management through its precision farming platform. By utilizing unmanned drones and advanced image recognition technology, Outfield collects and analyzes data to deliver actionable insights on key aspects such as fruit counts, blossom mapping, crop load management, and yield forecasting. This innovative approach significantly improves the accuracy of yield estimates, reducing common errors from 20% to less than 10%, thereby enhancing productivity and profitability for growers. The platform processes drone-captured images and returns detailed maps and insights to users within 24 hours, allowing for efficient decision-making. Currently, the service is being tested by growers in the UK, New Zealand, and South Africa, who have praised its flexibility and speed. Outfield aims to scale its operations, expand its offerings, and enter new market segments as it addresses the growing demand for sustainable and efficient fruit farming solutions.

Drone Ag

Grant in 2022
We make farming more productive through practical, hassle-free drone automation and Ai software. We are a UK based team of farmers, agronomists, drone pilots and software engineers that provide drone training courses and easy to use software solutions. We have been using drone systems on our own 6000 acre farm for years and we base all our solutions on what we have learnt in that real-world farm environment. We’re still learning, and as we learn we pass that knowledge onto our clients through training and use it to build unique software, making us the best option to stay at the forefront of practical drone use in precision agriculture.

Skyfarer

Grant in 2020
Skyfarer offers a Drones-as-a-Service platform that makes drone operations accessible to various organizations without requiring capital investment. The company specializes in compliance, automation, and mission delivery, providing end-to-end drone services across sectors such as healthcare and infrastructure. Skyfarer's solutions enhance efficiency and reduce emissions while facilitating operations Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS). Through its Infinite by Skyfarer division, the company provides rapid access to drone inspections, modeling, and surveillance, demonstrated by initiatives like the UK's first medical drone corridor and the world's first drone superhighway. Additionally, Skyfarer's unmanned aerial vehicles are designed for the quick delivery of vital medical payloads, including blood and vaccines, enabling timely distribution while minimizing road congestion and fossil fuel emissions.

Outfield

Grant in 2020
Outfield is an agritech company focused on transforming orchard management through its precision farming platform. By utilizing unmanned drones and advanced image recognition technology, Outfield collects and analyzes data to deliver actionable insights on key aspects such as fruit counts, blossom mapping, crop load management, and yield forecasting. This innovative approach significantly improves the accuracy of yield estimates, reducing common errors from 20% to less than 10%, thereby enhancing productivity and profitability for growers. The platform processes drone-captured images and returns detailed maps and insights to users within 24 hours, allowing for efficient decision-making. Currently, the service is being tested by growers in the UK, New Zealand, and South Africa, who have praised its flexibility and speed. Outfield aims to scale its operations, expand its offerings, and enter new market segments as it addresses the growing demand for sustainable and efficient fruit farming solutions.

Outfield

Funding Round in 2019
Outfield is an agritech company focused on transforming orchard management through its precision farming platform. By utilizing unmanned drones and advanced image recognition technology, Outfield collects and analyzes data to deliver actionable insights on key aspects such as fruit counts, blossom mapping, crop load management, and yield forecasting. This innovative approach significantly improves the accuracy of yield estimates, reducing common errors from 20% to less than 10%, thereby enhancing productivity and profitability for growers. The platform processes drone-captured images and returns detailed maps and insights to users within 24 hours, allowing for efficient decision-making. Currently, the service is being tested by growers in the UK, New Zealand, and South Africa, who have praised its flexibility and speed. Outfield aims to scale its operations, expand its offerings, and enter new market segments as it addresses the growing demand for sustainable and efficient fruit farming solutions.

Sensat

Grant in 2018
Sensat Ltd operates a cloud-based 3D virtual engineering platform that utilizes mapping drones to generate engineering-grade survey data. Founded in 2015 and based in London, the company offers software called Mapp, which enhances pre-construction planning, design, and bidding processes by providing precise topographical replicas of construction sites. Sensat's platform enables infrastructure owners and operators to manage and visualize live project information in 2D, 3D, and 4D formats, facilitating better planning, coordination, and tracking of project performance. By delivering infrastructure data in a visual format, the platform allows clients to monitor progress, take measurements, inspect details, and manage maintenance remotely, thereby supporting data-driven decision-making without the need for site visits.
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