We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 202 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $6.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $87.0m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
World View is a Tucson, Arizona-based developer and manufacturer of near-space exploration technology for remote sensing for scientific, commercial, economic, and military purposes and stratospheric tourism.
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$48.6m
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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$46.9m
Money raised
DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.
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$105.0m
Money raised
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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Funding Rounds
$3.9m
Money raised
Hylio is a technology company making drones for aerial crop spraying.
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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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Funding Rounds
$228.0m
Money raised
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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$1.8m
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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$75.1m
Money raised
Zipline is an automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and delivers medical products.
10
Funding Rounds
$704.5m
Money raised
Shield AI is a company building artificially intelligent systems like drones for use by military service members and first responders.
10
Funding Rounds
$588.1m
Money raised
Aerones is a company building heavy-lift drones founded in 2015 by Janis Putrams.
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$19.6m
Money raised
Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses.
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Funding Rounds
$55.5m
Money raised
Indemnis UAV Recovery Systems is an Anchorage, Alaska-based company developing safety solutions to the commercial UAV community.
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$10.4m
Money raised
A company that provides a data platform for buildings and properties.
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Funding Rounds
$29.6m
Money raised
Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.
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Funding Rounds
$128.9m
Money raised
An artificial intelligence company developing deep reinforcement learning technology products for industrial automation.
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$96.3m
Money raised
DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.
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Funding Rounds
$142.5m
Money raised
Aerojet Rocketdyne is a company that looks to innovate in industries of aerospace and defense markets
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$67.0m
Money raised
PRENAV is a company that is digitizing critical infrastructure in the world using AI.
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$9.1m
Money raised
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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$23.1m
Money raised
Skydio is a developer of autonomous drone robotics.
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$681.4m
Money raised
Skycatch is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2013 by Christian Sanz.
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$92.8m
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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$69.4m
Money raised
DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.
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$77.3m
Money raised
MicroLink devices is a Niles, Illinois-based semiconductor manufacturing company
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$28.5m
Money raised
TechEagle Innovations is an India-based drone delivery company.
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$500.0k
Money raised
A company using artificial intelligence to create a platform for solving visual inspection challenges in industrial environments.
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Funding Rounds
$32.1m
Money raised
An agricultural technology company developing a variety of drones and smart agriculture products.
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$201.6m
Money raised
DroneAI is a company that focuses on drone navigation, founded by Nitya Singh.
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$2.0m
Money raised
Flyability is a designer and manufacturer of drones for inaccessible places.
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Funding Rounds
$50.2m
Money raised
SkySafe is a U.S-based drone defense and airspace control solutions founded in 2015 by Scott Torborg.
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$46.5m
Money raised
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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Funding Rounds
$47.3m
Money raised
A drone mapping company offering aerial drone mapping software.
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$4.5m
Money raised
Flirtey is a company offering drone delivery service founded in 2015 by Tom Bass.
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$32.0m
Money raised
SkySpecs is a company founded in 2012 by Daniel Ellis.
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Funding Rounds
$138.9m
Money raised
SenSat is a company providing data ingestion and data-based simulations to visualize and track infrastructure projects.
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$34.7m
Money raised
Flytrex is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company founded by Yariv Bash in 2013.
6
Funding Rounds
$59.8m
Money raised
Citadel builds an automated and modular drone defense system that uses machine learning algorithms to detect and engage drones.
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$13.8m
Money raised
Asylon provides solutions for the autonomous UAV industry.
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Funding Rounds
$3.4m
Money raised
Flock Cover is an insurance technology startup based in London.
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$20.0m
Money raised
A company offering a still image and video analytics platform using computer vision.
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$1.4m
Money raised
Dronesmith Technologies makes APIs for drone applications.
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$1.2m
Money raised
PrecisionHawk is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based drone company developing drone and data products for the energy, agriculture, and telecommunications industries.
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Funding Rounds
$255.8m
Money raised
(Previously CyPhy Works) Developed autonomous drones for information gathering and search and rescue mission in dangerous environment
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Funding Rounds
$39.1m
Money raised
Epirus is an El Segundo, California-based technology company founded by Max Mednik.
5
Funding Rounds
$574.6m
Money raised
DroneBase is a Santa Monica, California-based logistics company founded by Eli Tamanaha.
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$24.5m
Money raised
Skyward developed an operations management solution for commercial drone businesses. Acquired by Verizon.
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$8.3m
Money raised
Wingcopter is a drone manufacturer founded in 2017 by Ansgar Kadura, Jonathan Hesselbarth and Tom Plümmer.
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$194.0m
Money raised
3D Robotics is an american technology company founded in 2009 by Chris Anderson.
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$141.0m
Money raised
WhiteFox Defense is a San Luis Obispo, California-based technology company company offering a drone airspace security platform.
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$26.2m
Money raised
Pioneer of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hardware and software platform providing fully-automated aerial data collection and analysis.
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$153.1m
Money raised
STRAX Intelligence Group is a technology company.
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$23.6m
Money raised
Kittyhawk provides an enterprise-class platform for optimizing drone workflows.
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$9.7m
Money raised
TraceAir creates and develops software solutions using drone imaging to assist construction teams with creating a better picture of their projects.
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$3.5m
Money raised
Aerobotics is a company based in Cape Town, South Africa. The company specializes in image processing and machine learning.
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$17.0m
Money raised
Saildrone designs, manufactures and operates a global fleet of wind and solar powered ocean drones, providing in-situ data collection services, global ocean data sets and enhanced weather forecast applications.
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Funding Rounds
$188.5m
Money raised
Manna is a business to business drone delivery company. The founder and CEO is Bobby Healy. There are two offices, one situated in Dublin, Ireland and another in Wales. Manna is within the drone delivery market.
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$25.0m
Money raised
Elistair is a company that develops equipment for the aviation industry.
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$15.6m
Money raised
Aerial Power is a London-based company founded by Ridha Azaiz.
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$40.0k
Money raised
Xwing is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Marc Piette.
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$58.0m
Money raised
Fotokite is a company that builds drones specifically to assist first responders.
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$20.5m
Money raised
SLAMcore is a London-based company founded in 2016 by Jacek Zienkiewicz, Owen Nicholson, Andrew Davison, Stefan Leutenegger and Hanme Kim .
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$27.4m
Money raised
Nightingale Security is a company offering autonomous drone surveillance solutions founded by Jack Wu.
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$8.6m
Money raised
DRONE AVIATION HOLDING CORP. is a Jacksonville, Florida-based drone manufacturing company founded in 2009.
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$125.0k
Money raised
Gamaya is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Ivanov Igor, Dragos Constantin and Yosef Akhtman.
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$16.4m
Money raised
Kespry provides a touchless drone-based aerial intelligence platform for organizations in a variety of industries.
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$61.7m
Money raised
Airspace Systems uses machine vision and deep learning to detect anomalies and classify rogue drones.
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$25.0m
Money raised
Droneshield is a company that offers security drones to its clients.
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$26.9m
Money raised
Sea Machines Robotics is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 by Michael Gordon Johnson.
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Funding Rounds
$32.4m
Money raised