• Shield Capital led SiFly’s Series A financing, backing a maker of longer-endurance autonomous drones for commercial and public-safety missions.
• SiFly’s Q12 platform is designed to stay airborne for 2-3 hours, versus roughly 30-40 minutes for typical multirotor enterprise drones.
• The company says the aircraft can fly 4x longer, up to 10x farther, carrying payloads up to 10 pounds.
• SiFly targets drone-as-first-responder programs, utility inspections, agriculture, with a value proposition centered on fewer aircraft and lower mission costs.

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