Skylark Drones gets $3 mn funding from InfoEdge Ventures and IAN Fund

06 Jul 2021 CW Team

Skylark Drones, a provider of enterprise drone solutions, has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by InfoEdge Ventures and IAN Fund to expand its geospatial intelligence product and enter international markets.

AdvantEdge Founders, agriculture solutions company Fowler Westrup, Redstart Labs, IKP, and mining conglomerate Vimson Group all contributed to the fundraise.

SkyLark, founded in 2015 by Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy and Mrinal Pai, provides companies in industries like mining, solar power, real estate, and agriculture with insights on how to improve worksite productivity by using drones for data collection.

The company also offers enterprise and individual operators project and fleet management solutions for drone flights, as well as a hardware product for drone manufacturers looking to comply with India's no permission, no take-off (NP:NT) protocol.

Skylark provides full-stack drone solutions to businesses, from helping them manage and deploy drone fleets to helping customers in the mining, construction, and solar power sectors derive actionable and up-to-date insights from images.

Amit Behl, partner at InfoEdge Venture Fund said that aerial intelligence is a theme with immense potential because it provides significant cost, time, and accuracy benefits for large infrastructure companies that face frequent cost and time overruns.

Skylark Drones is a technology company that is developing the global drone ecosystem's core infrastructure.

Image Source

Also read: "A metrics-driven approach will help companies with planning, overall project costs and on-time deliveries"

Infrastructure Transport

01 Jun 2026

MMRDA advances 250 m on Orange Gate–Marine Drive tunnel

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has completed 250 m of underground tunnelling for the Orange Gate–Marine Drive Urban Road Tunnel using India’s largest slurry shield tunnel boring machine (TBM) deployed for an urban road project.The project involves twin tunnels extending over 7 km beneath critical transport corridors, including Central Railway, Western Railway and Metro Line 3. The work requires high-precision engineering to navigate densely developed urban infrastructure.Once completed, the tunnel is expected to reduce travel time between Orange Gate and Marin..

Hindustan Zinc Pays Rs 188.46 Billion in FY26

Hindustan Zinc contributed Rs 188.46 billion to the public exchequer in FY 2025-26, according to its 9th Tax Transparency Report. The contribution, equivalent to 46 per cent of the company’s revenue, included direct and indirect taxes, government royalties, dividends to the Government of India, withholding taxes and other statutory levies.The company’s five-year cumulative contribution to the exchequer stood at Rs 915.72 billion. In FY26, Hindustan Zinc reported revenue of Rs 408.44 billion, EBITDA of Rs 221.62 billion and profit after tax of Rs 138.32 billion. It also achieved its highest..

World of Concrete India 2026 Opens in Mumbai

Informa Markets in India will host the 12th edition of World of Concrete India 2026 from 3–5 June 2026 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. The specialised B2B exhibition will bring together manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, developers, architects, consultants, infrastructure companies, project leaders and government stakeholders.The event is expected to feature over 350 brands and more than 18,000 trade professionals. It will cover concrete and cement, dry mortar, precast technologies, formwork, construction chemicals, industrial and commercial flooring, scaffolding, safety solutio..