doks. innovation enables indoor drone flights for next-level digital logisticsInside a building GPS does not work. We use a combination of global mapping and local mapping… it is very very complex.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 
The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Benjamin Federmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminfedermann/) the CEO and Co-Founder of Kassel-based drone startup doks. innovation (https://www.doks-innovation.com/). D oks.innovation is not a hardware startup, they only provide  Benjamin has spent some time after university in marketing and consulting for some smaller and also well-known companies like Leica.
 
The feedback from the interviews I conducted was so good, I was sure I needed to found the company
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
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The customer can ask almost any question and find the answer in our data.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 
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When we started with our first prototype, we crashed 30 to 40 drones.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 
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Our drone is a flying camera to collect data for the inventory management.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 
The Startup 
The startup doks.innovation enables companies to monitor their warehouses via drones, which can fly indoors without smacking on any shelf or wall. Doks is not a hardware startup. doks.innovation provides only the ai software for the drones to enable them to fly indoors. On the other hand, they are also working closely with hardware providers, since they have very specific requirements for their drones. The drones are using cutting-edge drone hardware, which is not yet publicly available.
The company is still small, but they have reference customers like Mars and BMW.
Our clients have to press a button and come back 3 or 4 hours later. The data collection is totally automated. The customer can ask almost any question and can find the answer in our data.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 Venture Capital Fundingdoks.innovation is open to talking to new investors from Europe and the US. They are looking for the next financing round in Q1 2021 and to expand to the US in 2021.
 
When we stared there was no hardware available for what we have been looking for.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 
 
The Video Interview is set to go live on October 15th, 2020 19.00 CET Frankfurt/Paris/Zürich/Milanohttps://youtu.be/yi8SmEMuuj8
 
Drones are good for land surveying, but are there areas where drones are currently not working? So I made more than 100 interviews in one and a half year.
Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation
 
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