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Nick Pilkington

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CTO & Co-Founder at Drone Deploy

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedDrone Deploy

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About

Nick Pilkington is the co-founder and CTO of DroneDeploy, the reality-capture platform Procore agreed to acquire for about $845 million in July 2026. A Rhodes University graduate and Nelson Mandela Scholar with a machine-learning PhD from Cambridge, he worked at NVIDIA and Toshiba Research, co-founded the South African bitcoin exchange Luno, scouts for Sequoia Capital, and coaches South Africa's international programming-olympiad team.

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Beyond investing

Founded
Co-founded Luno, the South African bitcoin exchange, before DroneDeploy.
Education
Machine-learning PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Nelson Mandela Scholar, after Rhodes University and an MPhil in NLP and signal processing.
Communities
Sequoia Capital scout and coach of South Africa's international programming-olympiad team.

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CTO & Co-Founder at Drone Deploy

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Drone Deploy's investors · 14

AirTree VenturesSydney · $132K – $16.5M checksAngelPadSan Francisco · $120K checks · since 2013Bessemer Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $50K – $100M checksCemex VenturesMadridDCVC (Data Collective)Palo Alto · $5M – $25M checksDRONE FUNDTokyoEmergence Capital PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $10M checks · since 2015Energize CapitalChicago · $10M – $20M checksFrontline VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $3.2M checksHigh AlphaIndianapolisRedpoint VenturesWoodside · $100K – $10M checksScale Venture PartnersFoster City · $5M – $50M checks · since 2016Uncork CapitalSan Francisco · $3M – $5M checks · since 2014Winklevoss CapitalNew York · $100K – $5M checks

Co-founders at Drone Deploy

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Writing

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Gem Island2020-09-04

A walkthrough of a combinatorics puzzle computing the expected gems held by the richest islanders, presenting successive algorithms from brute-force enumeration to closed-form counting of unique distributions.»

Frequently asked questions

Who is Nick Pilkington?
Nick Pilkington is the co-founder and CTO of DroneDeploy, the reality-capture platform Procore agreed to acquire for about $845 million in July 2026. A Rhodes University graduate and Nelson Mandela Scholar with a machine-learning PhD from Cambridge, he worked at NVIDIA and Toshiba Research, co-founded the South African bitcoin exchange Luno, scouts for Sequoia Capital, and coaches South Africa's international programming-olympiad team.
Where does Nick Pilkington work?
Nick Pilkington is CTO & Co-Founder of Drone Deploy.
What companies did Nick Pilkington found?
Nick Pilkington founded Drone Deploy.
What has Nick Pilkington written?
Nick Pilkington has 1 tracked post on nickp.svbtle.com, including "Gem Island".

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