Aerones, a leading provider of robotic inspection, maintenance, and AI-driven solutions for wind turbines, recently announced it has secured $62 million in capital in a significantly oversubscribed financing to accelerate its global expansion and technology development.
The funding round was co-led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments, with additional participation from Carbon Equity and Overlap Holdings, alongside existing investors Lightrock, Blume Equity, Metaplanet, Change Ventures, and Extantia. This latest funding follows Aerones’ securing of a 4 million euro grant from the EU Innovation Fund in 2024 and a $30 million funding round in 2023.
“Our mission is to automate wind-turbine inspection and maintenance globally,” said Dainis Kruze, co-founder and CEO of Aerones. “The world cannot meet its renewable energy goals without innovation — and there simply aren’t enough qualified technicians to keep up with the growth of this industry. With this new investment, we’re expanding faster than ever to meet the urgent demand for intelligent, robot-enabled and AI-powered solutions.”
With a new operational hub in Dallas, Texas, Aerones is expanding its reach in the U.S. and internationally, working with industry leaders such as GE Vernova, NextEra, Vestas, Enel, and Siemens Gamesa, and delivering the full spectrum of robotic inspection, maintenance, and data-driven diagnostics.
With this $62 million investment, Aerones will expand its operational capacity worldwide and accelerate research and development in AI-driven automation, robotics, and customer-facing software solutions. The company plans to scale up its robot manufacturing capabilities and invest in advanced predictive maintenance tools, leveraging data from thousands of robotic inspections. These initiatives will enable Aerones to further accelerate preventive maintenance in the wind industry.
“Our investment in Aerones represents the continuation of a long-held thesis at Activate that successfully transitioning our energy systems to renewable power will require fundamentally new technologies and business models to manage the distributed infrastructure,” said Paul Neal Jordan of Activate Capital. “In a world where energy costs are rising — and energy resilience and security more critical than ever — Aerones brings a unique set of robotic and AI capabilities to bear for wind, one of the fastest growing and cheapest forms of new energy generation globally.”
Aerones’ technology is delivering measurable progress in clean energy by optimizing turbine performance, extending asset lifespans, and minimizing downtime for wind-farm operators globally. Since 2020, Aerones has enabled nearly 400,000 MWh of additional clean electricity and helped avoid 165,000 tons of CO2 emissions, with the potential to prevent more than 170 million tons in the next five years, while servicing more than 10,000 turbines annually in more than 30 countries.
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