AirHub, a Dutch drone operations software company, has raised €4.4M in a new round led by Keen Venture Partners. The company's software is used by government and public safety organisations including Dubai Police and the Belgian Federal Police to plan, manage, and monitor drone fleet operations.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in the Netherlands, AirHub provides the operations management layer for drone deployments in security, critical infrastructure inspection, and emergency response.
The new funding follows a €1 million seed round closed in April 2024 from LUMO Labs and Lumaux, which was the company's first external investment after eight years of bootstrapped growth.
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That capital enabled AirHub to strengthen its European presence and begin expanding into the Middle East, Asia, and South America. The new round represents a significant step up in scale, suggesting the company has found commercial traction in its core government and security verticals since the seed close.
AirHub's platform handles the operational complexity that makes drone fleet management difficult at scale: flight planning, live streaming from multiple aircraft simultaneously, compliance with airspace regulations, maintenance scheduling, fleet tracking, incident reporting, and checklist management, all accessible from a single dashboard and via mobile applications for iOS, Android, and DJI Smart Controllers.
The platform can be deployed on an organisation's own servers, a requirement for public safety and critical infrastructure customers operating in regulated or sensitive environments. The company is co-led by Stephan van Vuren and Thomas Brinkman, both of whom have backgrounds as commercial airline pilots and drone operators.