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Top 25 Drone technology companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 960 drone technology companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,873 professional contacts across them, including 2,598 with verified work emails. Austin is the largest hub.
This list covers drone technology companies 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 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 technology companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,525 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.(GA-ASI), we invent and pioneer disruptive technologies for military, security, environmental and civil operations worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 913 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Skydio is the leading U.S-based drone manufacturer and the world leader in autonomous flight technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edge Autonomy is a leader in providing innovative autonomous systems, advanced optics, and resilient energy solutions to the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PDW is a defense technology company building multi-mission aerial robotic systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DZYNE Technologies is a leading innovator in autonomous defense solutions, specializing in the design and development of advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and counter-UAS…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dedrone by Axon is the global leader in smart airspace security.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fortem Technologies is the leader in airspace awareness, security, and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Autel Robotics provides aerial robotics to the public sector, public safety, enterprise, and commercial operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trillium Engineering is the industry-leading provider of actionable imagery for small UAS tactical operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Red Cat (Nasdaq: RCAT) is a U.S-based provider of advanced all-domain drone and robotic solutions for defense and national security.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Neros is a defense technology company that builds asymmetric systems to ensure the West’s strategic edge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creating a future where autonomous flight is safe and accessible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AirSight provides solutions against the newest and fastest growing security threat by detecting drones in the airspace across all critical industries/vertical markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Teal is focused on rebuilding the American drone industrial base.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Easy Aerial develops and manufactures autonomous and remotely operated military-grade drone-in-a-box solutions designed to go above and beyond – even in the most hostile…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based on a heritage of defense, security and technology innovation, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drone Nerds provides comprehensive drone solutions for enterprise, private, and recreational needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MARTAC’s™ objective is to deliver reliable and innovative unmanned products and systems to our military, security, commercial and scientific markets and customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hoverfly Technologies is an industry leader in tethered UAV solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Censys Technologies propels industrial drone users by minimizing overhead and operation headaches with industry-leading, long-range drones that distinguish your brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Matternet is the leading developer of commercial drone delivery systems for urban and suburban environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Advancing civilization through a new form of transportation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elroy Air is a U.S-based technology company redefining how critical cargo moves.” 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 technology companies. 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 technology companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of drone technology companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name drone technology companies. 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 technology companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 960 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 technology companies, 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 technology companies”. 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 technology companies), 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 technology companies, 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, 2,598 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 technology companies, 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 technology companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 960 drone technology companies 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?
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, headquartered in Poway, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most drone technology companies?
Austin leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (15) and Los Angeles (15).
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 2,598 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 960 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.
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