- conflicts or gaps
- [[{"field": "founders", "conflict": {"value": "Tracxn lists founders as Forrest Meyen and Edward Obropta only; YC and company site list Nikhil Vadhavkar and Eddie Obropta as active founders; MIT News and MIT HSL confirm all three co-founded in 2015 with Meyen departing in 2016", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/raptormaps/__8yjmHBGp06FfRJit4t1ecT7M1O62KPdYf9R5Byhe9Co", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/raptor-maps", "https://news.mit.edu/2019/raptor-maps-solar-drone-software-0130", "https://hsl.mit.edu/news/raptor-maps-wins-mit-100k-entrepreneurship-competition/"]}}, {"field": "hq_location", "conflict": {"value": "Tracxn lists Cambridge; YC and company website list Somerville (444 Somerville Ave); press releases use Boston", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/raptormaps/__8yjmHBGp06FfRJit4t1ecT7M1O62KPdYf9R5Byhe9Co", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/raptor-maps", "https://www.raptormaps.com", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raptor-maps-closes-35-million-series-c-financing-to-drive-next-generation-solar-asset-management-solutions-302322933.html"]}}, {"field": "employee_count", "conflict": {"value": "YC profile lists team size 75; LinkedIn lists 86 employees; Clay lists 51-100 range — counts may be stale or methodology-dependent", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/raptor-maps", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/raptormaps", "https://www.clay.com/dossier/raptor-maps-funding"]}}, {"field": "total_funding", "conflict": {"value": "Golden wiki shows outdated total of $27.5M (pre-Series C); current consensus is $62.2M across 8 rounds", "source_urls": ["https://golden.com/wiki/Raptor_Maps-ZXERRA4", "https://www.clay.com/dossier/raptor-maps-funding", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/raptormaps/__8yjmHBGp06FfRJit4t1ecT7M1O62KPdYf9R5Byhe9Co"]}}, {"field": "seed_round_amounts", "gap": {"value": "Multiple seed/early rounds (Dec 2016, Dec 2017, Jun 2019) have undisclosed amounts; total $62.2M relies on secondary aggregators (Clay, Tracxn, CB Insights) not fully itemized in primary sources", "source_urls": ["https://www.clay.com/dossier/raptor-maps-funding", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-82E2F939-0173-46A4-A20A-8C8A2EA82436-Raptor-Maps-12-06-2016", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/raptor-maps/financials"]}}, {"field": "valuation", "gap": {"value": "No public valuation disclosed for any funding round", "source_urls": ["https://www.clay.com/dossier/raptor-maps-funding"]}}, {"field": "original_business", "gap": {"value": "Company pivoted from agriculture drone/crop-mapping (2015 MIT $100K pitch) to solar asset management (~2017–2018); some third-party databases (Gaebler 2016, Golden) still describe AgTech/farming focus", "source_urls": ["https://hsl.mit.edu/news/raptor-maps-wins-mit-100k-entrepreneurship-competition/", "https://news.mit.edu/2019/raptor-maps-solar-drone-software-0130", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-82E2F939-0173-46A4-A20A-8C8A2EA82436-Raptor-Maps-12-06-2016", "https://golden.com/wiki/Raptor_Maps-ZXERRA4"]}}, {"field": "deployment_scale", "gap": {"value": "45 countries / 200+ million panels claim sourced only from YC profile; not independently verified in primary company press", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/raptor-maps"]}}]]
- source urls
- ["https://golden.com/wiki/Raptor_Maps-ZXERRA4", "https://hsl.mit.edu/news/raptor-maps-wins-mit-100k-entrepreneurship-competition/", "https://news.mit.edu/2019/raptor-maps-solar-drone-software-0130", "https://people.equilar.com/bio/org/raptor-maps-inc/5108708", "https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/08/26/raptor-maps-secures-funding-sets-sights-on-scaling-the-solar-industry-with-software-and-data/", "https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/12/11/solar-drone-inspection-software-company-secures-35-million-in-funding/", "https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/05/12/gamechange-solar-and-raptor-maps-bring-together-software-monitoring-and-robotic-inspections-to-augment-om-workflows/", "https://raptormaps.com/about/about-raptor-maps", "https://raptormaps.com/blog-posts/press-release-raptor-maps-raises-series-a", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/raptormaps/__8yjmHBGp06FfRJit4t1ecT7M1O62KPdYf9R5Byhe9Co", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/raptor-maps/financials", "https://www.clay.com/dossier/raptor-maps-funding", "https://www.gaebler.com/VC-Funding-82E2F939-0173-46A4-A20A-8C8A2EA82436-Raptor-Maps-12-06-2016", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/raptormaps", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raptor-maps-closes-35-million-series-c-financing-to-drive-next-generation-solar-asset-management-solutions-302322933.html", "https://www.raptormaps.com", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/raptor-maps"]