Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Drone makers based in France
RevenueBase identified 170 drone makers headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 3,067 professional contacts across them, including 552 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers drone makers headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest drone makers based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,534 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1994 by Henri Seydoux, Parrot designs, develops and markets a comprehensive range of high-performance micro-drones, purpose-built for Defence Forces, Public Safety, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Exail Technologies is a defense technology group delivering autonomous maritime drone systems and advanced navigation solutions for naval and defense customers operating in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dronisos is a pioneering drone entertainment company specialising in the creation of indoor and outdoor drone shows using autonomous drones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dronevolt, founded in 2011, is the market leader in the manufacturing and sales of service drones that represent many vertical markets, including Security, Surveillance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Azur Drones is one of the world leaders in drone-in-a-box solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At YellowScan we design, develop and produce UAV Mapping solutions for professional applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elistair is the global leading manufacturer of automated tethered drone systems for persistent surveillance and emergency communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CERBAIR, a French company with an International Mindset, protects sensitive sites and events from dangerous drone activity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Drotek, we design and manufacture advanced IoT devices and drone technology, proudly Made in France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “À propos de studioSPORT Forte de plus de 17 ans d’expérience, studioSPORT est une référence dans la vente de drones de loisir et de course, de solutions professionnelles par…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1996, Survey Copter, an Airbus subsidiary, has been one of the worldwide leader in the design, production and customer operational support of mini UAS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering the Future of Autonomous Solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'ambition d'HyLight est de rendre nos sociétés résilientes face aux effets du changement climatique en travaillant sur l'étape cruciale d'observation et d'inspection pour une…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le drone et les nouvelles technologies automatisées représentent aujourd'hui un formidable outil qui révolutionne de nombreux secteurs de l'industrie et des services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hexadrone SAS est une société française spécialisée dans le développement mécatronique de solutions diverses liées à l’usage du drone civil et militaire depuis 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Allumee transforms the sky into a storytelling platform that creates emotional impact for global audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Escadrone est une SAS au capital de 20 créée en octobre 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AERIX SYSTEMS pushes back the limits of aerial mobility with a unique omnidirectional propulsion technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Delair Marine is the company behind Seasam, the world's first compact autonomous underwater drone made for professional applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2012, we have been designing and manufacturing innovative UAVs for surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence missions, perfectly tailored to the needs of our civil and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drone Act est spécialisé dans la conception, la fabrication et le prototypage d'aéronefs télépilotés pour professionnels, DAO/CAO, fabrication additive, usinage de pièces…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Silverlit est une entreprise dynamique, à taille humaine, qui a toujours eu pour vocation de proposer des jouets électroniques innovants et d'excellente qualité pour le plaisir…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As the European leader in drone safety accessories, Dronavia’s primary objective has always been to offer professional drone operators ever more safety.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BOREAL est le concepteur et constructeur du système drone BOREAL : drone à voilure fixe de grande capacité d'emport et de longue endurance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Avec plus de 10 ans d’expérience, DRONE XTR s’impose comme un acteur de référence de la lutte anti-drone en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: drone makers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names drone makers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drone makers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drone makers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Drone makers based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 170 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among drone makers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “drone makers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names drone makers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among drone makers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 552 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names drone makers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many drone makers are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 170 drone makers headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Parrot, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drone makers?
Paris leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Toulouse (7) and Lyon (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 552 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 170 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.