Reliable Robotics Raises $25 Million for Pilotless Planes: Travel Startup Funding This Week
Photo Credit: The Reliable Robotics team poses with an autonomous aircraft at its hangar in San Martin, California. Reliable Robotics
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Travel Startup Funding This Week
Each week we round up travel startups that have recently received or announced funding. Please email Travel Tech Reporter Justin Dawes at [email protected] if you have funding news.
This week, travel startups announced more than $35 million in funding.
>>Reliable Robotics, which aims to bring autonomous piloting technology to commercial aviation, recently closed a $25 million Series B round.
Eclipse Ventures led the round. Pathbreaker Ventures and Teamworthy Ventures also invested. The startup had previously raised $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Ventures.
The company is building the hardware and software needed to retrofit aircraft for fully automated, gate-to-gate, remote operation.
Reliable Robotics has completed successful test flig
