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Pyka Announces New Plane - Path toward Human Autonomous Passenger

Ryan Sommer

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MaintainPR client Pyka is the only company in the world with commercial approval to fly large autonomous electric aircraft. They recently took the wraps off a newer, larger plane that will be crop spraying specific fields in the U.S.A. and Latin America called Pelican. Forbes and Aviation Week have coverage.

Pyka Bets The Path To The Future Of Passenger Planes Runs Through Banana Plantations In Latin America” — Forbes

Pyka Tests Unmanned Crop Sprayer on U.S. Farms” — Aviation Week

Pyka Announces $11M Seed Round for Autonomous Flight

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MaintainPR client Pyka are designing and manufacturing large electric aircraft for a variety of real world autonomous applications — right out of Oakland! They currently fly the world's only commercially approved autonomous electric aircraft in use for agricultural sprayers in rural environments.

TechCrunch recently covered this innovative young startup’s seed led by Prime Movers Lab and with participation from Y Combinator.

“Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round” — TechCrunch

Lily AI Announces $12.5M Series A

Ryan Sommer

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MaintainPR client Lily AI is a female led (and coded) platform focused on using deep learning to help brands better convert customers through emotionally tailored recommendations.

The experienced team, including SXSW Award winner Purva Gupta and former Box/Yahoo tech lead Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan, have recently announced a $12.5 million Series A led by Canaan Partners. Prior investors NEA, Unshackled and Fernbrook Capital also took part in the funding event.

Read more on TechCrunch for how a personal shopping pain point from Purva led to leading AI and Machine Learning solving multiple issues for big brands and retailers.

Lily AI raises a $12.5M Series A led by Canaan to accelerate its e-commerce recommendation tech— TechCrunch

Momentus Announces $25.5 Million Series A

Ryan Sommer

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MaintainPR client Momentus are transforming the business implications of getting around in orbit. They recently announced a $25.5MM series A investment round led by Prime Movers Lab and featuring investment from Y Combinator, the Lerner Family, the University of Wyoming Foundation, Quiet Capital, Mountain Nazca, ACE & Company, Liquid 2 Ventures, Drake Management, and others. This brings the total investment sum for Momentus to $34MM.

View some of the coverage we secured.

“Momentus Raises $25.5M for In-space Shuttle Services” — Space News

“In-space Shuttle Service Momentus Raises $25.5 Million” — TechCrunch

“Startup that wants to ferry items in deep space raises $25.5M” — Forbes

LDV Capital Featured in Axios

Ryan Sommer

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By 2025, manufacturing and logistics will be faster, cheaper and more flexible because of visual technologies. That’s the main takeaway from MaintainPR client LDV Capital’s most recent report in their Insights series https://www.ldv.co/insights

We helped get the report in the hands of Kaveh Waddell, Axios’ lead AI writer, and he used several citations to back up an excellent piece on teaching robots to see.

“Teaching Robots to See” — Axios

MaintainPR & Noble.AI

Ryan Sommer

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Corporate R&D spending in 2018 reached $782 billion among the top 1000 companies, representing a 14% increase relative to 2017 and the largest figure deployed firms to R&D ever. Despite this, most AI-as-a-service is designed and targeted toward marketing and commerce.

Enter MaintainPR client Noble.ai (https://noble.ai/), AI software that helps enterprises do R&D with 10x lower cost. Since founding the company in 2017, Matthew C Levy and his team have worked with many of the largest and most forward-thinking enterprises – across verticals like chemistry, automotive, and materials science – using their unique technology to help them lower the cost of R&D and invent faster.  

We are excited about the future announcements from this stellar SF-based startup. You can read more about the seed fundraise from Prime Movers Lab and Solvay Ventures (the venture arm of world-leading chemical company Solvay) on TechCrunch below.

Big data AI startup Noble.AI raises a second seed round from a chemical giant — TechCrunch