Fly high! Malaysia-based Aonic offers end-to-end drone solutions to streamline manual farm and inspection tasks for the agriculture and industrial sectors.  

• Now, they’ve just raised a $10M Series A. 

Investor check. Kairous Capital led the round.

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🍅 Hard work

While most farms in the West use industrial machines to handle repetitive manual work, these haven’t caught on in SEA yet. 

• Aonic’s drones are making agricultural spraying more consistent and less labor-intensive.

👩🏽 The context

Farmers spray their crops with fertilizers or treatments to protect against insect and weed threats.

• Common ways of spraying include using a manually driven machine or a backpack sprayer.

Other use cases. Aonic’s drones can also inspect and analyze areas like solar farms, power lines, and construction sites.

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🥏 Not just a drone maker

But Aonic is not just a drone marker. They offer a complete ecosystem of hardware, software, and deployment services.

• They design and manufacture their own in-house drones and own the proprietary software for flight operations. 
• They also offer training and certification courses to build a drone operator network, as well as financing options that are critical for smallholder farmers. 

Even after sales? Yep, they even have an after-sales network of more than 50 3S (sales, service, spare parts) centers across SEA.

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🔝 What’s in store

The funding will accelerate Aonic’s regional and global expansion, betting on their full-stack service to capture more markets.

• The capital will also be used to deepen research and development and scale their drones, software, and services. 

Profitable since 2023. Aonic said that their drones are deployed in over 15 countries, and that they’ve reached more than $60M in annual revenue.