The wind turbine industry is growing fast and with that, the demand for repairs. A good time for Latvian startup Aerones then, which has designed a family of robots that can fix many of the most common faults that wind turbines develop in a fraction of the time and cost that a human would need.
Today it’s announcing a $9m seed funding round led by Future Positive Capital, with existing investor Change Ventures also piling in. Several well-known founders from the Baltics have also invested, including Vinted cofounder Mantas Mikuckas, Printify CEO James Berdigans and Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn.
It’s already working with nine of the world’s ten largest wind companies, including Siemens Gamesa, Enel, GE and Vestas, and has serviced over 3,000 wind turbines in Europe, Brazil, Costa Rica, the US and Canada.
It plans to more than double its team over…