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Jono Millin
FounderFounder at Drone Deploy
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedDrone Deploy
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About
Jono Millin is a co-founder and chief data officer of DroneDeploy, the reality-capture platform Procore agreed to acquire for about $845 million in July 2026. After computer science at Rhodes University he took an MSc in artificial intelligence at Edinburgh — leaving a machine-learning PhD two-thirds through — and co-founded Zoom2Work and AdvertEyes there before moving to San Francisco to start DroneDeploy with Mike Winn and Nick Pilkington in 2013.
Deal analysis
- DroneDeploy × Procore: who got the money home
An estimated liquidation waterfall of the $845m all-cash exit: every class converted — seed money made ~33x, founders took ~$127m, and the 2025 insider round returned ~1.4x in ten months.
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Beyond investing
- Founded
- Co-founded Zoom2Work and AdvertEyes in Edinburgh before DroneDeploy.
- Education
- MSc in artificial intelligence and PhD candidacy in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh, after computer science at Rhodes.
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Founder at Drone Deploy
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Podcasts & interviews
featuring Jono MillinGetting the Best Data With Drones: Jono Millin, Co-Founder & CCO, DroneDeploy
Drone Radio Show
#087 - DroneDeploy's Drone Mapping Software with Jono Millin
Commercial Drones FM
Drones: changing the face of agriculture forever - Jono Millin, DroneDeploy
Web Summit
Jono Millin, Drone Deploy
Drone & Sundry
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jono Millin?
- Jono Millin is a co-founder and chief data officer of DroneDeploy, the reality-capture platform Procore agreed to acquire for about $845 million in July 2026. After computer science at Rhodes University he took an MSc in artificial intelligence at Edinburgh — leaving a machine-learning PhD two-thirds through — and co-founded Zoom2Work and AdvertEyes there before moving to San Francisco to start DroneDeploy with Mike Winn and Nick Pilkington in 2013.
- Where does Jono Millin work?
- Jono Millin is Founder of Drone Deploy.
- What companies did Jono Millin found?
- Jono Millin founded Drone Deploy.
- What podcasts and interviews feature Jono Millin?
- Tracked appearances include "Getting the Best Data With Drones: Jono Millin, Co-Founder & CCO, DroneDeploy", "#087 - DroneDeploy's Drone Mapping Software with Jono Millin", "Drones: changing the face of agriculture forever - Jono Millin, DroneDeploy", and 1 more.
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