April fundings, acquisitions and IPOs

April was a big month for investing in robotics – 19 companies were funded to the tune of 175 million vs. 15.8M in January, 18.6M in February, and 45.4M in March. Four companies were acquired with 3 of the 4 reporting selling prices totaling 422 million. Precision Hawk CEO Bob Young said, "Building and selling planes will arguably be the smallest part of our business. Our biggest opportunity and the faster growing part of our business is the platform we built for aerial data services. At DuPont Pioneer, we're driving a new era of agriculture productivity that enables farmers to increase profitability and sustainability through data-driven insights," said Neal Gutterson, DuPont Pioneer Vice President of R&D.