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Top 25 Drone software and simulator developers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 136 drone software and simulator developers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,830 professional contacts across them, including 1,128 with verified work emails. San Francisco is the largest hub.
This list covers drone software and simulator developers headquartered in the United States, 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 28, 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 software and simulator developers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 913 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Skydio is the leading U.S-based drone manufacturer and the world leader in autonomous flight technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With products spanning four decades of innovation, ETC is unparalleled in simulating environments for training, testing, and research and development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A leading, privately-held software engineering firm specializing in Air Traffic Control and Airport simulation technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creating a future where autonomous flight is safe and accessible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DroneSense, now part of Versaterm, is a pioneering software development company dedicated to revolutionizing public safety through the power of drone technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Freefly we have been focused on building the world's most efficient professional drone ecosystem for over a decade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Redbird started as a familiar conversation amongst pilots: learning to fly is expensive and hard, but once mastered, few pursuits can match the life changing impacts aviation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are on a mission to bridge the gap between simulation and the real world, ensuring autonomous systems perform flawlessly when it counts most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in San Luis Obispo, California, Inspired Flight Technologies designs and manufactures secure, high-performance unmanned aircraft systems built for operators who demand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exyn is pioneering autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “eTT Aviation, a US veteran-owned company, was founded in 2002 with Tom LaJoie’s vision to create a tool fellow United Airline pilots could use to improve their quality of life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Swarmer develops software systems that allow unmanned vehicles to act autonomously and work together in large teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vantage makes UAVs and UAV components for customers, including the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Don Selvy Enterprises, Inc.(DSE) is an aviation & aerospace company based out of Bel Air, Maryland, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OneSky’s enterprise-ready, software platforms use proven, industry-leading analytics to ensure safe, compliant and efficient UAS and UAM flights beyond visual line of sight…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We've developed a deep drone platform technology stack and we design and manufacture our own onboard computer, remote controller, carbon composite airframes, battery charging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “American Robotics is a commercial developer of the first FAA-approved fully-automated drone systems, providing ultra high resolution aerial data to enterprise customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hextronics engineers products that help facilitate autonomous functionality for the growing drone industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ZedaSoft provides flexible innovative simulation products and services to our worldwide government, military and commercial customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KEF Robotics provides state-of-the-art autonomy software to fly aircraft without a human pilot.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trusted unmanned systems powering defense, energy, and commercial missions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “UVify is a developer and manufacturer of high-performance drones, autonomous technologies, and related hardware and software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Earthly Dynamics Corporation (EDC) was founded in and is headquartered in Roswell, Georgia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Black Swift Technologies is an engineering firm specializing in the development of next generation small unmanned aircraft platforms and technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 software and simulator developers. 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 software and simulator developers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drone software and simulator developers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drone software and simulator developers. 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 software and simulator developers based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 136 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 software and simulator developers, 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “drone software and simulator developers”. 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 software and simulator developers), 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 software and simulator developers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 1,128 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 28, 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 software and simulator developers, 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 software and simulator developers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 136 drone software and simulator developers headquartered in the United States 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?
Skydio, headquartered in San Mateo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drone software and simulator developers?
San Francisco leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Austin (6) and Los Angeles (4).
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 1,128 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 136 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 28, 2026.
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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.
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