Percepto, a drone startup that is building a sizable business with its software and hardware for industrial drone applications, is today announcing a big round of funding to take its operations to the next level -- both literally and figuratively. Percepto (not to be confused with the Israeli reputation management startup of the same name) has become the first industrial drone company to get a nationwide Beyond Line of Sight (BVLOS) waiver from the FAA in the U.S. This is significant not least because in the opinion of Dor Abuhasira, Percepto's co-founder and CEO, regulation -- not technology -- has been the biggest roadblock to the growth of the drone industry, something that has now started to change. The waiver in essence means removing some of the friction Percepto and its customers faced: The startup will not need to get site-specific approvals from the regulator for deployments of its remotely operated drones when working with clients in areas of "U.S. critical infrastructure"; and these installations and operations will no longer require additional deployments of people or radars -- all of which will speed up rollouts, reduce costs and presumably drive more business Percepto's way.