James Paterson
Chief Executive Officer, Aerobotics
James Paterson is Chief Executive Officer of Aerobotics.
Aerobotics is a Cape Town agritech company that uses drone, satellite and smartphone imagery to give fruit and nut farmers tree counts, health data and yield forecasts. It has raised about US$27.1 million across five funding rounds since 2017.
In the job
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Aerobotics raised US$17 million (R253 million) in an oversubscribed Series B round led by Naspers, to fund product development and delivery in the United States and its other core territories. Source
Education
BSc in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation Engineering, University of Cape Town (2011); MSc in Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014)
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