Raptor Maps

What Raptor Maps does

Raptor Maps, Inc. is a privately held US-based solar software and robotics company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, founded in 2015 by MIT engineers. The company sells performance-intelligence software and autonomous inspection hardware to solar asset owners, operations and maintenance (O&M) providers, EPCs, and regulated utilities across 48 countries, with approximately 80 GW of solar assets under management and 120+ GW of PV system data analyzed across 400+ companies.

The company's core product is the Raptor Solar platform, a cloud-based solar asset management suite that ingests drone, satellite, and operational sensor data to produce a module-level Digital Twin of every connected PV asset, surfaced through web and mobile (Raptor Solar Mobile App) interfaces. Around this platform, Raptor Maps offers several modules: Raptor Solar Sentry (an autonomous drone-in-a-box with 3+ GW of deployed docked capacity), Instant Inspections (AI-powered drone-imagery analytics), Raptor Solar Claims (claims management), and Raptor Solar Enterprise AI (a generative-AI layer). Inspection analytics use proprietary computer-vision models, adhere to IEC TS 62446-3:2017, and target detection of defects such as cracked thin-film modules, hot spots, soiling, and equipment-driven brushfire risk.

Raptor Maps monetizes through (i) recurring software subscriptions to Raptor Solar (per MW or per site under management), (ii) bundled Raptor Solar Sentry hardware sales on multi-year enterprise contracts (e.g., the 1,400-site Luminace/Brookfield deployment), (iii) drone inspection services delivered in-house and through a Drone Service Provider partner network, and (iv) training/pilot certification. Capital totals approximately $57M+ across a $22M Series B (April 2022, led by MacKinnon, Bennett & Co.) and a $35M oversubscribed Series C (December 2024, led by Maverix Private Equity). Strategic alliances with ACT Power Services, BayWa r.e., Luminace/Brookfield, First Solar, DNV, ENGIE, and GameChange Solar anchor a go-to-market that combines enterprise field sales, an inside-sales funnel for mid-market developers, and a DSP channel for customers not yet owning Sentry hardware.

Name

Raptor Maps

Legal name

Raptor Maps, Inc.

Website

https://raptormaps.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Raptor Maps provides AI-driven solar asset management software (Raptor Solar) and autonomous drone-in-a-box hardware (Raptor Solar Sentry) to solar owners, O&Ms, EPCs, and utilities, managing roughly 80 GW across 400+ companies in 48 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Solar Asset Management Software

NAICS

Solar Electric Power Generation (221114)

akta.pro primary industry

Solar Design, Engineering & Performance Software (PV Modeling, Digital Twins, Monitoring) (EUAMABAH)

Keywords

• Solar asset management
• Solar inspection analytics
• Drone inspection software
• Digital twin solar
• PV performance monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Somerville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Raptor Solar Software Subscription: Recurring software subscription (monthly or annual auto-recurring) for the Raptor Solar asset management platform, sold per MW or per site under management; this is the core revenue stream and the primary monetization of the Digital Twin and analytics layer.
2. Raptor Solar Sentry Hardware Sales: Sale and deployment of the Raptor Solar Sentry autonomous drone-in-a-box hardware to asset owners (e.g., Luminace's 1,400-site deployment), typically bundled with the software subscription and sold on multi-year contracts.
3. Drone Inspection & Professional Services: One-time and recurring drone inspection services delivered through Raptor Maps' in-house pilots and its Drone Service Provider (DSP) partner network for customers needing on-demand thermography without owning Sentry hardware.
4. Training and Pilot Certification: Training services for drone pilots, analysts, and partner providers to operate Raptor's hardware and interpret analytics, sold alongside enterprise deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Raptor Maps sells a solar asset management platform (Raptor Solar) that builds a module-level Digital Twin from drone, sensor, and equipment data to deliver defect detection, predictive maintenance, and wildfire-risk analytics for solar asset owners, O&Ms, EPCs, and utilities. It is sold primarily as a subscription software, bundled with its proprietary autonomous Raptor Solar Sentry drone-in-a-box hardware and complemented by AI-driven Instant Inspections, the RS Mobile App, Claims, and Enterprise AI modules.

Product overview

Raptor Maps operates a platform-plus-modules architecture anchored by its core product, Raptor Solar—a digital twin-based solar asset management platform that ingests drone, sensor, and equipment data to deliver fleet-wide performance, health, and risk analytics. Around this core platform, Raptor Maps offers several modules and add-ons: Raptor Solar Sentry (autonomous drone-in-a-box for hands-off inspections), the Raptor Solar Mobile App / RS Mobile App (field-technician application for on-site data capture), Instant Inspections (AI-powered analytics on drone imagery for defect and anomaly detection), Raptor Solar Claims (claims management workflow), and Raptor Solar Enterprise AI (generative AI capabilities for enterprise workflows). Together, these offerings form an integrated solar lifecycle stack spanning inspection capture, AI-driven analytics, field operations, and claims processing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Raptor Solar: Flagship solar lifecycle management / solar asset management software platform.
• Raptor Solar Sentry
• Instant Inspections
• Enterprise AI

Products and services

• Raptor Solar Cloud-based solar asset management platform that builds a module-level Digital Twin by ingesting drone, satellite, sensor, and equipment data to deliver fleet-wide performance, health, and risk analytics for solar asset owners, O&Ms, EPCs, and utilities.
• Raptor Solar Sentry Autonomous drone-in-a-box hardware product that performs scheduled, hands-off thermal and visual inspections of solar sites and integrates captured imagery into the Raptor Solar Digital Twin; sold primarily bundled with the Raptor Solar software subscription.
• Instant Inspections AI-powered inspection analytics service that processes drone-captured imagery to identify defects, anomalies, and equipment issues on solar PV assets under IEC TS 62446-3:2017 standards.
• Raptor Solar Mobile App (RS Mobile App) Mobile field application for iOS and Android that enables field technicians to navigate to checklist tasks, access context for remediation, and track work impact even in areas with no cell signal.
• Raptor Solar Claims Claims management module that streamlines warranty and insurance claim workflows by linking detected anomalies from inspections to the claims process.
• Raptor Solar Enterprise AI Enterprise AI offering that applies generative AI capabilities to Raptor Solar asset management workflows to produce AI-driven insights and content for solar operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• 75% reduction in portfolio underperformance with $2M in recovered revenue (case study).
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability10 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered flagship strategic partner, notable partnership, adjacent partnership and flagship (thin-film).

• ACT Power Servicesflagship strategic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic operations and maintenance (O&M) partnership delivering Raptor Maps' inspection and asset-management capabilities across ACT Power's solar portfolio.
• BayWa r.e.flagship strategic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic alliance with global renewable energy developer BayWa r.e. for solar asset management and portfolio monitoring.
• Luminace (Brookfield Renewable)flagship strategic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-year strategic deployment of Raptor Solar Sentry across 1,400+ distributed energy resources spanning 28 U.S. states for Luminace, a Brookfield company.
• GameChange Solarnotable partnershipStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership announced with leading solar mounting and tracker manufacturer GameChange Solar, expanding reach across utility-scale solar projects.
• Luminous Energynotable partnershipStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with Luminous Energy (UK utility-scale solar developer) announced to bring Raptor Maps' analytics and autonomous drone capabilities to Luminous's portfolio.
• ACCURE Battery Intelligenceadjacent partnershipGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-hosted webinar and joint content collaboration with battery analytics provider ACCURE, broadening coverage across solar-plus-storage asset performance.
• AMPYX CYBERadjacent partnershipGTM or Marketing PartnerJoint webinar and content partnership with AMPYX CYBER, focused on cyber and operational resilience topics relevant to solar asset operators.
• First Solarflagship (thin-film)Strategic or Co-development PartnerJoint detection and remediation program for thin-film module cracking; Raptor Maps identified 600+ cracked modules at a 200 MWdc First Solar site, supporting First Solar's warranty and reliability initiatives.
• Shoals Technologiesadjacent partnershipGTM or Marketing PartnerJoint webinar and content collaboration with solar BoS manufacturer Shoals Technologies, addressing balance-of-systems performance and asset management.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Power Factors: Power Factors is a renewable energy asset management software platform serving IPPs, O&Ms, and developers with performance monitoring and O&M workflows, making it a directly comparable solar/renewables asset-management SaaS competitor.
• AlsoEnergy (Stem): AlsoEnergy, now part of Stem, provides solar and storage monitoring and analytics software for IPPs and commercial asset owners, competing head-to-head with Raptor Maps in solar asset management and O&M software.
• DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy is a drone inspection and aerial analytics platform used in solar, construction, and other industries; it is a direct competitor on the drone-data capture and inspection analytics layer of Raptor Maps' stack.
• Sighten: Sighten offers solar monitoring, analytics, and O&M software for commercial and utility-scale portfolios, overlapping directly with Raptor Maps' Raptor Solar platform for distributed and C&I solar asset owners.

Broad incumbents

• Skydio: Skydio is a leading autonomous drone manufacturer with a broad enterprise customer base; its autonomous drone-in-a-box products overlap with Raptor Solar Sentry as a competing hardware platform for industrial inspections.
• Aurora Solar: Aurora Solar is a leading solar software platform focused on design, sales, and proposal workflows for residential and commercial installers; it operates in the broader solar SaaS category with adjacent O&M capabilities.
• EagleView: EagleView provides high-resolution aerial imagery and analytics across multiple verticals including solar, with overlapping capabilities in asset inspection and digital twin creation for distributed solar portfolios.
• Nearmap: Nearmap is an aerial imagery and location intelligence provider offering high-resolution, frequently refreshed imagery that is comparable to the aerial-data layer feeding Raptor Maps' analytics workflows.
• Pix4D: Pix4D provides photogrammetry and drone-mapping software used to convert aerial imagery into inspection-ready outputs; it is comparable to the imagery processing and digital twin pipeline underlying Raptor Solar.

Emerging players

• ACCURE Battery Intelligence: ACCURE is a battery analytics SaaS platform for energy storage assets; it overlaps with Raptor Maps' expanding solar-plus-storage scope and is a documented joint go-to-market partner for adjacent battery analytics use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/raptor-maps-inc.
• Xx.com/raptormaps
• Facebookfacebook.com/raptormaps

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors18 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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