Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), a corporate venturing subsidiary of chemicals producer Koch Industries, has led a $45m series B for Percepto, an Israel-based producer of autonomous robots for industrial inspection applications.
The round included Delek-US, a regional subsidiary of Israel-headquartered energy, infrastructure and financial services conglomerate Delek, as well as State of Mind Ventures, Summit Peak Investments, US Venture Partners (USVP), Spider Capital and Arkin Holdings.
Percepto has developed infrastructure maintenance technology that streams and analyses live video footage from aerial and ground-based drones to help human personnel optimise operations.
The company will use the funding to launch its product, which also supports third-party robots, and said it has now raised $72.5m to date.
The round comes after Percepto secured $15m in a May 2019 series A round led by USVP that included NHN Investment, a subsidiary of internet company NHN, in addition to Spider Capital and Emerge.
The last three participated as existing investors, while R&R Venture Partners was also named as an earlier backer in the series A announcement.
Car producer Hyundai injected an undisclosed sum in the company 2018 through its Hyundai Cradle vehicle, after a $1m seed round in 2015 led by Richard Parson and backed by fellow angel investors Mark Cuban and Xu Xiaoping as well as Emerge and Elevator Fund.