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Saildrone is a robotics company founded 2012, based in United States, developing 3 robots primarily in the Research category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Saildrone has raised US$174.0M across 3 confirmed rounds and has 3 deployments on record, 1 maker-verified.
Raised
US$174.0M
across 3 confirmed rounds · latest May 2025
- May 2025· US$60.0M· investors: EIFO, Lux Capital, Washington Harbor Partners +5 more· Saildrone ↗Correct this round
- Oct 2021· Series C· US$100.0M· Tech Brew ↗Correct this round
- Sep 2016· Series A· US$14.0M· led by Social Capital· SiliconANGLE ↗Correct this round
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
Correct this →Shipped
4named customers · 3 tied to a specific robot
1 maker-verified · on 3 robots
- Navy· Voyagersaildrone.com ↗
- NOAA· United States· Saildrone Explorer10 unitsbernews.com ↗
- Woolpert and NOAA Ocean Exploration / Office of Coast Survey· Surveyorgeoweeknews.com ↗
Also cited
- Israeli Navyinvestigate.afsc.org ↗
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Department of Commerce· United Statesusaspending.gov
Autonomous maritime systems for ocean intelligence and defense
Saildrone designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous wind- and solar-powered unmanned surface vehicles that collect high-resolution oceanographic, meteorological, and security data. Its Voyager, Surveyor, and Saildrone Explorer platforms are used for ocean mapping, maritime domain awareness, and persistent monitoring in commercial, science, and defense applications.
Active products
3
RoboIndex
65.79
RoboScore 64.69 + Momentum 1.10
Company facts
- Legal name
- Saildrone Inc.
- HQ
- Alameda, United States
- Founded
- 2012 · 14 yrs
- Website
- www.saildrone.com
- View profile ↗
RoboScore
64.69 RoboScore + 1.10 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
Saildrone was founded by Richard Jenkins to develop unmanned solar- and wind-powered vehicles for ocean data collection.
Press coverage
- Saildrone Business Breakdown & Founding Story
Contrary Research
- Saildrone
Schmidt Marine Technology Partners
- About Us
Saildrone
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
+1.10momentumof 15 maxSaildrone launches JAGM missiles from unmanned vessel
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
Why Saildrone has been in the news, across 3 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
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