Our mission

We Protect From Malicious Drones and Enable the Good Drones to Fly

About Dedrone

At Dedrone we believe in a flat organization where individual empowerment and open communication drive a more robust and innovative solution set for our customers.

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Our Employees

Although our employees are spread across multiple continents, Dedrone operates as one cohesive unit. Our diverse team includes individuals from successful startups, large enterprises, research centers and even military backgrounds. Together, we work tirelessly to develop technology that addresses the most challenging airspace security issues that our customers face today.

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Our Leadership Team

Aaditya Devarakonda

Aaditya Devarakonda

CEO

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Aaditya Devarakonda

AD leads the global Dedrone team, advancing our vision of airspace security. He has advised and partnered with multiple CEOs, boards and management teams to build and scale highly successful companies globally.

Ingo Seebach

Ingo Seebach

CSO, Co-Founder

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Ingo Seebach

In 2013 when a toy drone crashed into a stage in front of Angela Merkel, Ingo Seebach was the first to have the idea of creating technology to protect from drone threats. Today, Ingo also serves as Managing Director of Dedrone GmbH in addition to driving Dedrone’s global strategy.

Russ Haugan

Russ Haugan

Chief Operating Officer

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Russ Haugan

drives Dedrone’s global operations, including production and support. His high-tech career spans from engineering execution to business management, including, most recently as CEO of Aerial Armor. He is passionate about airspace security being a cornerstone in public safety now and into the future.

Ben Wenger

Ben Wenger

Chief Revenue Officer

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Ben Wenger

leads Dedrone’s global sales team to provide best-in-class counter-drone technology to enterprise and government customers around the world. Ben has previously served as Vice President of Sales for emergency communication technology company Everbridge, where built the go-to-market strategy to include strategic global integrators and scaled the global sales team to meet significant revenue growth.

Mary-Lou Smulders

Mary-Lou Smulders

Chief Marketing Officer

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Mary-Lou Smulders

leads Dedrone's global marketing and communications team. During her twenty-year high-tech career, Mary-Lou served as CMO at several enterprise software entities including financial technology company 9th Gear and crisis communication systems leader AtHoc. Additionally, she served as Senior Vice President of Global Applications and Services Marketing for Oracle Corporation and started her career as a rig engineer.

Matt Altman

Matt Altman

Chief Technology Officer

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Matt Altman

leads Dedrone’s overall product strategy and engineering execution, leveraging his almost 20 years of technology industry experience and counter-drone expertise. Prior to Dedrone, Matt served as CTO and co-founder of Aerial Armor, a counter-drone company, where he led software development and was instrumental in its success.

Sara Devitt

Sara Devitt

Chief People Officer

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Sara Devitt

Sara leads Dedrone's people operations. With over ten years of experience in organizational development consulting at Harvard Business Publishing, she transitioned to internal positions where she successfully led HR teams at notable companies like Healthfirst, Industrious, Hinge, and Emotive. Throughout her career, Sara has gained expertise across various industries and tackled crucial business challenges through inventive people and talent strategies.

Danny Guan

Danny Guan

Chief Product Officer

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Danny Guan

leads Dedrone’s product strategy and definition processes across its airspace security suite. His experience encompasses computer vision, sensor-fusion and robotics including at Amazon, where he spent seven years in engineering leadership for software and hardware technologies.

$400

Billion market

3.5X

Customer Growth

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Advisory Board

John Chamber (Former CEO Cisco), Advisory Board, Dedrone

John Chambers

Former ceo
cisco systems inc.

Rob D'Amico

Richard Clarke

Retired General, US Army

Rob D'Amico

Jim Smith

Former Acquisition Executive for US Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

Milestones

Jun 2024

Launches DedroneOnTheMove

Apr 2024

DHS Awards SAFETY Act

Jan 2024

Wins Best Place to Work

Jun 2023

Dedrone releases DedroneTactical, the first cUAS expeditionary kit with AI/ML driven sensor-fusion including RF-sensors, radar & camera

Mar 2023

Dedrone launches City-Wide Drone Detection

Dec 2022

Dedrone Acquires Aerial Armor to Accelerate Airspace Security Leadership

Oct 2022

Dedrone launches DedroneDefender, a smart jammer for urban environments

Jul 2022

Dedrone closes $30 Million Series C-1 Financing led by Axon. DedroneTracker 5.1 releases and becomes 1st true CUAS C2 system.

Apr 2022

Dedrone launches first trailer-based counter-drone unit, DedroneRapidResponse, for law enforcement

Dec 2021

Dedrone closes $30.5 million Series C financing round led by Axon

Jun 2021

1000th DedroneSensor sold

Oct 2020

Dedrone secures $12.1m in funding, led by TempoCap

Sep 2020

Dedrone releases DedroneSensor RF-360 for advanced detection in urban environments

Jan 2020

Dedrone releases new DedroneSensor RF-160 with increased detection range, integrated LTE and advanced analytics

Nov 2019

Dedrone releases DedroneTracker 4.1, providing advanced radar & PTZ camera integration

Oct 2019

Dedrone Acquires DroneDefender, Launches DedroneDefense

Apr 2019

DedroneTracker 4 released, including heat maps and advanced airspace analytics

Sep 2018

Dedrone introduces swarm detection capabilities with DedroneTracker 3.5

May 2017

Dedrone raises $15 million in Series B funding, led by Felicis Ventures and John Chambers, ex-CEO of Cisco

May 2016

Dedrone raises $10 million in series A funding, led by Menlo Ventures

Apr 2015

Dedrone receives $3 million in seed funding from venture firm Target Partners

Jan 2015

Dedrone’s first counter-drone solution launched

Feb 2014

Dedrone is founded and begins development of its first prototype

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