69 Best Autonomous System Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Autonomous System Startups

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There are 349 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $23.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $336.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

9

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$995.5m

Money raised

Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.

10

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$1.0b

Money raised

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

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$100.9m

Money raised

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

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$46.9m

Money raised

AirMap is a California-based drone industry company improving low-altitude-airspace infrastructure to help drone operators fly safely and legally.

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$3.9m

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Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

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$3.0b

Money raised

Postmates is a food delivery service company operating a network of couriers for local goods delivery.

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$20.3m

Money raised

Driverless truck company based in San Francisco, California.

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$1.9b

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Metropolis is a Santa Monica, California-based company focusing on artificial intelligence technology for checkout-free transactions at parking lots.

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4

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$102.5m

Money raised

ScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.

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Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.

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$568.0m

Money raised

An insurance technology company offering artificially intelligent software for insurance fraud detection and claims handling.

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$70.0m

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Helm.ai is a start-up developing software for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving, and robotics.

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$30.0m

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Drivezy, formerly JustRide, is a marketplace for self-drive cars and two-wheeler rentals, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

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$228.0m

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Echodyne is a company developing compact, solid-state, high-performance radar system founded in 2014 by Eben Frankenberg and Tom Driscoll.

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$1.8m

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Sabrewing Aircraft Company is a Camarillo, California-based aerospace and aviation company and a developer of heavy-lift commercial vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

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4

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$75.1m

Money raised

Volansi was a company offering delivery service for time-critical shipments using high-speed long-range drones. Volansi was acquired by Sierra Nevada Corporation in October 2022.

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$704.5m

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Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.

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$588.1m

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Shield AI is a company building artificially intelligent systems like drones for use by military service members and first responders.

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$1.8b

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Automation Anywhere is a company developing cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software.

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$1.2b

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A company developing artificial intelligence-based technology designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Fremont, California.

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$108.0m

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WayRay is a Moscow-based developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for the automotive industry.

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$19.6m

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Aerones is a company building heavy-lift drones founded in 2015 by Janis Putrams.

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$46.0m

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A technology company building products for enabling the autonomous operation of self-driving vehicles.

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$55.5m

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Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.

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4

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$10.4m

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Indemnis UAV Recovery Systems is an Anchorage, Alaska-based company developing safety solutions to the commercial UAV community.

6

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$238.9m

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HyperScience is a AI enabled company for office work company founded in 2014 by Peter Brodsky, Krasimir Marinov and Vladimir Tzankov.

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$232.0m

Money raised

An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$511.8m

Money raised

A company designing and building autonomous electric transportation (AET) systems for freight and cargo.

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$29.6m

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A company that provides a data platform for buildings and properties.

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$92.0m

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An artificial intelligence company that has developed technology for mapping services specifically focused designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

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7

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$128.9m

Money raised

Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.

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$96.3m

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An artificial intelligence company developing deep reinforcement learning technology products for industrial automation.

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$1.3b

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Momenta is a Beijing-based startup that designs software for autonomous vehicles.

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14

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$851.4m

Money raised

Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.

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11

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$142.5m

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DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.

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6

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$9.1m

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PRENAV is a company that is digitizing critical infrastructure in the world using AI.

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$23.1m

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Iris Automation is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence-based collision avoidance systems for industrial drones and other autonomous flying machines.

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$45.0m

Money raised

Decisions is a no-code business automation platform focusing on process automation as well as data handling and business rule execution.

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$21.0m

Money raised

A company that develops material-handling technology for manufacturing and warehouse logistics.

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$92.8m

Money raised

Skycatch is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 by Christian Sanz.

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$69.4m

Money raised

A sports company with a drone racing circuit for First Person View (FPV) pilots. It is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2015.

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$77.3m

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DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.

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$250.0k

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Local Motors is an American motor vehicle manufacturing company that is interested in providing low-volume vehicle manufacturing

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$28.5m

Money raised

MicroLink devices is a Niles, Illinois-based semiconductor manufacturing company

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$2.2b

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Nuro is a company that develops self-driving vehicles designed for local goods transportation.

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$106.3m

Money raised

Mocana is a San Francisco-based developer of cybersecurity software solutions to protect Internet of Things devices and industrial infrastructure.

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$500.0k

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TechEagle Innovations is an India-based drone delivery company.

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$32.1m

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A company using artificial intelligence to create a platform for solving visual inspection challenges in industrial environments.

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$201.6m

Money raised

An agricultural technology company developing a variety of drones and smart agriculture products.

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$731.8m

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Geek+ is a company developing logistics and warehousing robots.

$1.6m

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A company providing an ultrasonic sensor solution for three-dimensional positioning in vehicles in order to drive autonomously in close proximity and low-speed environments.

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$15.2m

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A software company offering a no-code workflow management and automation platform focused on serving knowledge workers.

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$50.2m

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Flyability is a designer and manufacturer of drones for inaccessible places.

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$2.0m

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DroneAI is a company that focuses on drone navigation, founded by Nitya Singh.

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$1.6b

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WeRide, formerly known as JingChi, is a Guangzhou, China-based smart mobility company developing L4 autonomous driving solutions.

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$46.5m

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SkySafe is a U.S-based drone defense and airspace control solutions founded in 2015 by Scott Torborg.

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$598.8m

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VOI is a dockless electric scooter-share company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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$4.5m

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A drone mapping company offering aerial drone mapping software.

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$47.3m

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Sofar builds ocean sensing and exploration tools for ocean enthusiasts, industry, and conservation. Products include the Spotter weather buoy and Trident underwater drone.

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$32.0m

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Flirtey is a company offering drone delivery service founded in 2015 by Tom Bass.

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$355.0m

Money raised

WorkFusion is a New York-based software company that provides a platform with Robotic Process Automation(RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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$10.9m

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A software company using machine learning to create solutions for the manufacturing and automotive industries.

9

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$138.9m

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SkySpecs is a company founded in 2012 by Daniel Ellis.

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$23.3m

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A technology company developing technologies for self driving vehicles.

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$81.6m

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Liquid Robotics is a subsidiary of The Boeing Company engaged in the development of an unmanned wave and solar-powered ocean robot.

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$34.7m

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SenSat is a company providing data ingestion and data-based simulations to visualize and track infrastructure projects.

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$59.8m

Money raised

Flytrex is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company founded by Yariv Bash in 2013.

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$13.8m

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Citadel builds an automated and modular drone defense system that uses machine learning algorithms to detect and engage drones.

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