Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles called Saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale.
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Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles called Saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale. Each USV carries an automatic identification system, navigation lights, a radar reflector, high visibility wing colors, four onboard cameras, acoustic Doppler current profilers (sonar systems to measure water current velocities), passive acoustic recorders for marine mammal studies, and an array of 20 sensors, different for each saildrone (sensors are recruited in alignment with the tasks the human operator wants to complete). Linked to onboard computers and transmitting their data through satellite communications to the Saildrone mission control center in Alameda, California, these sensors can measure anything, whether it be air, sea, and bulk water temperature, irradiance, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, wave height and period, salinity and acidity levels, biomass and the list goes on. The company is headquartered in Alameda, California and is backed by Horizons Ventures, Social Capital, Lux Capital, The Capricorn Investment Group, Exor Seeds and The Schmidt Family Foundation.
Legal Name
:
Saildrone Inc.
Headquarters
:
Alameda, California, United States
Founding Date
:
2014
No. of Employees
:
151 to 250
Core Team
:
1.
Richard Jenkins
Co-founder & CEO
2.
Troy Bertram
Chief Revenue Officer
3.
Sebastien de Halleux
Chief Operating Officer
Funding
Total Funding
$88.5M
Investors
:
1.
Social Capital
2.
Capricorn investment group
3.
Lux Capital
4.
HORIZON VENTURES
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