Have you ever seen a remote controlled quadcopter? Not very exciting huh? What about a video recording quadcopter that follows you autonomously when you go mountain climbing or skateboarding? You can actually get one from Lily Robotics! Their quadcopter, Lily, is small enough to fit in a backpack. You throw the quadcopter into the air, and it flies by itself and tracks you via its camera. It has enough battery to film you for 20 minutes. When the battery runs low, it alerts you through an armband that vibrates.
Lily is a robotics start-up founded by former UC Berkeley Business Administration alumnus Antoine Balaresque ’13 and EECS alumnus Henry Bradlow ’14. In mid March this year, Lily closed a seed round with High Line Venture Partners, an early stage venture fund. In mid April, they closed another seed round with SV Angel, an investment firm that has funded at least 600 Internet companies, including Google, Twitter, Dropbox and Airbnb, in the past 20 years.
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