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Autonomous electric aviation startup Pyka is working hard to scale up its crop-dusting and cargo plane lines.
The company's lightweight, compact electric Pelican aircraft were designed to autonomously spray crops over large areas, relieving the dangerous and tedious work of human pilots or remote control operators.
Pyka has been working with aerospace veteran Sierra Nevada to make the kinds of changes needed for such a craft to be useful on a battlefield or contested environment.
That’s still the legacy we’d like Pyka to have.” The $40 million B round was led by Obvious Ventures , with participation from Piva Capital , Prelude Ventures , Metaplanet Holdings , and Y Combinator ..
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