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Three patterns run through AgEagle Aerial Systems's acquisitions — what it looks for, how it pays, and how it folds in what it buys.
4 acquisitions — each with the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, and executive commentary where disclosed.
AgEagle bought substantially all of the assets of Agribotix, LLC, a Colorado-based drone-enabled software company built around FarmLens, a cloud imaging and data-analytics platform for sustainable and precision agriculture. It was AgEagle's first acquisition and folded the target's assets into subsidiary Eagle Aerial Systems. Consideration was $150,000 in cash and 200,000 AgEagle shares valued at $5.00 each, plus a contingent earnout tied to future performance. The deal expanded AgEagle from farm-drone hardware into recurring analytics revenue. Approximately $1.15 million upfront ($150,000 cash plus about $1.0 million in stock), plus a contingent earnout.
Their FarmLens platform includes unique technology that I believe will significantly enhance our current service offering and analytic capabilities, while expanding our addressable market to include major food manufacturers and farmers that seek products and services that can seamlessly integrate within their current farm management system.Barrett Mooney — Chief Executive Officer, AgEagle Aerial Systems
AgEagle acquired 100% of MicaSense, Inc., a Seattle-based maker of high-precision thermal and multispectral drone sensors founded in 2014, from France's Parrot group and co-founder Justin McAllister. The aggregate purchase price was $23 million, less debt and subject to a working-capital adjustment. About $3 million of the consideration was paid in AgEagle stock (540,541 restricted shares issued in April 2021), with the balance in cash and a holdback for indemnification. MicaSense products such as Altum and RedEdge-MX were distributed in more than 70 countries and served aerial mapping and analytics needs across agriculture, energy and inspection markets.
Joining forces with MicaSense will empower AgEagle to drive true innovation and advancements of commercial drone systems and solutions for a number of high growth industry segments.J. Michael Drozd — Chief Executive Officer, AgEagle Aerial Systems
AgEagle acquired 100% of Measure Global, Inc., an aerial-intelligence software company whose cloud SaaS platform, Ground Control, automates drone-fleet operations, flight control and in-platform data analysis for enterprises. The aggregate purchase price was approximately $45 million, less debt and expenses. It comprised $15 million in cash and $30 million in AgEagle stock, with the company issuing 5,319,145 shares to the Measure sellers. Measure, with operations in Washington, D.C. and Austin, Texas, added the software layer to AgEagle's hardware-and-sensor stack; it was AgEagle's third acquisition overall and second of 2021. Approximately $45 million.
Measure represents the next step on our Company's continued path as we evolve in becoming a global leader in end-to-end drone solutions; and it greatly complements our recent acquisition of advanced drone sensor leader MicaSense.J. Michael Drozd — Chief Executive Officer, AgEagle Aerial Systems
AgEagle and Measure are completely aligned on our vision for the future of The Drone Age. As such, this merger represents a powerful marriage of strengths, experience and highly complementary capabilities and know-how that should earn us distinction as the leading provider of true end-to-end drone solutions on a global basis.Brandon Torres Declet — Co-Founder and CEO, Measure Global
AgEagle acquired 100% of senseFly, comprising Swiss entity senseFly S.A. ($21 million) and U.S. entity senseFly Inc. ($2 million), from Parrot's Parrot Drones S.A.S. and Parrot Inc., for a combined $23 million. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, senseFly makes the eBee line of professional fixed-wing mapping drones and employed about 90 people, generating roughly $12.5 million of revenue in 2020. About $3 million of the consideration was payable in AgEagle stock (issuable 90 days after closing), with the remainder in cash and holdbacks. The deal gave AgEagle a market-leading fixed-wing airframe line, engineering talent and a global reseller network.
Recognized as the producer of the world's most widely used fixed wing drones, senseFly is an ideal strategic fit for AgEagle; and is expected to accelerate our core growth strategy centered on delivering proprietary, full stack drone solutions to the global agriculture, construction, energy, government sectors, and in the future, package delivery.Brandon Torres Declet — Chief Executive Officer, AgEagle Aerial Systems
senseFly has reached a very exciting and pivotal point in its history and is well positioned to build upon its leading position in the fixed wing drone market and accelerate its promising growth trajectory through this strategic combination with AgEagle.Gilles Labossiere — Chief Executive Officer, senseFly