Infravision company profile
Infravision builds drone-enabled systems for power-line construction and grid infrastructure work. Its aerial robotics approach uses heavy-lift drones and robotic pulling equipment to string transmission lines faster and with less ground disturbance than conventional construction methods.
Facts
- Segment: Aerial
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2018
- Website: https://www.infravisioninc.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Sources
Summary
Infravision builds drone-enabled systems for power-line construction and grid infrastructure work. Its aerial robotics approach uses heavy-lift drones and robotic pulling equipment to string transmission lines faster and with less ground disturbance than conventional construction methods.
Market context
Infravision applies aerial robotics to power infrastructure construction, addressing labor and safety constraints in grid buildout. TX System: drones + intelligent ground equipment + stringing hardware for transmission line stringing and grid construction.
- Capability: Aerial robotics
- Capability: automated grid deployment
- Capability: transmission line stringing and related grid construction workflows
- Strategic position: Positioned in builders (industrial / deployment)
- Strategic position: aerial robotics for power infrastructure construction
Facts
- Website: https://www.infravisioninc.com/
- HQ: Austin, TX, United States
- Founded: 2018
- Segment: Aerial
- Known funding rounds: 2
Funding
- 2025-11-03 - Series B - $91M - Infravision raises $91M Series B led by GIC to scale aerial robotics for power infrastructure construction - source: gic.com.sg
- 2024-02-15 - Series A - $23M - Infravision raises $23 million Series A for aerial grid-construction robotics - source: infravisioninc.com
Investors
- Energy Impact Partners - Lead - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-02-15 - latest 2025-11-03
- Activate Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-11-03
- GIC - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-11-03
- Hitachi Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-11-03
- Edison International - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-02-15
- Equinor Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-02-15
Drone-based transmission-line construction
Infravision targets one of the harder physical jobs in grid buildout: stringing transmission lines across long corridors. Its TX System combines drones, ground equipment and stringing hardware to reduce dependence on helicopters and manual high-risk workflows.
- Target environment: Transmission corridors, new grid buildouts, emergency repair sites, remote rights-of-way and utility construction projects where helicopter access is expensive or risky.
- Deployment model: Project-delivery model combining proprietary aircraft, ground systems, stringing equipment, utility approvals and site crews for power-infrastructure work.
- Customer context: Utilities, transmission developers, engineering contractors, grid builders and energy companies needing faster, safer line construction.
- Workflow context: Pilot-line placement, aerial pull operations, ground-to-air coordination, conductor stringing, construction scheduling and emergency restoration.
- Commercial maturity: Growth-stage infrastructure robotics company with major funding and field deployments in grid construction.
- Market position: Specialist in making grid construction less dependent on helicopters and manual high-risk work.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on utility procurement, safety approvals, weather tolerance, crew training, aviation permissions and proof of faster construction.
- Adjacent context: Aerial robotics, grid modernization, utility construction, transmission deployment, drones and infrastructure field robotics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-03-24 - Award - Infravision ranks No. 4 in Fast Company Robotics and Engineering list - The recognition highlighted Infravision's drone-enabled TX system for grid construction.
- 2025-11-13 - Executive Hire - Infravision appoints Frank Tybor as chief technology officer - Tybor joined as Infravision scaled deployment of its aerial robotics system for grid construction.
- 2025-11-03 - Funding - Infravision raises $91M Series B led by GIC to scale aerial robotics for power infrastructure construction - Raised $91M in Series B funding (capital raised, not valuation).
- 2024-02-15 - Funding - Infravision raises $23 million Series A for aerial grid-construction robotics - Infravision raised Series A funding to scale aerial robotics for transmission-line construction and grid infrastruct…
- 2020-05-05 - Deployment - Transgrid and Infravision use drones for powerline stringing works - The work targeted a safer alternative to helicopter stringing near power lines.
Team
- Cameron Van Der Berg - Co-Founder and CEO
- Chris Cox - Co-Founder - Adds founding-team context for Infravision's field deployment model and aerial robotics approach to power-line construction.
- Frank Tybor - CTO
Relationships
- grid construction customer - Transgrid partnered with Infravision to use drones for stringing work on the 992 transmission line near Yass.
Context tags
- Infrared inspection robotics - Peer Group
- Infrared asset inspection - Workflow
- Inspection robotics layer - Stack Layer
- Energy infrastructure assets - Customer Environment
Customers and deployments
- Transgrid 992 Drone Stringing - 1 named grid-construction deployment - 2020-05-05 - Transgrid - powerline construction - Transgrid and Infravision used drones for stringing work on the 992 transmission line near Yass, a…
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