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YC Drones Companies
22 Y Combinator drones startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
22
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18
Active
2
Acquired
0
Public
YC Company Directory
22 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ornadyne | X26 | We're building robot birds for surveillance. | Active | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 4 | Geourg Kivijian, Armen Arakelyan | Reveal | |
DroneTector | W26 | Technology to detect and track hostile drones | Active | — | 3 | Thomas Doherty, Jordina Frances de Mas, Matthew Moore | Reveal | |
Milliray | W26 | Technology to detect and track small drones | Active | London, England, United Kingdom | 3 | Matthew Moore, Thomas Doherty, Jordina Frances de Mas | Reveal | |
Voltair | W26 | Autonomous Drones for Earth Observation | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 5 | Ronan Nopp, Hayden Gosch, Avi Gotskind, Warren Weissbluth | Reveal | |
Splash Inc. | W25 | Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security | Active | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 9 | Ivan Avanesov, Marcell Veszpremi | Reveal | |
Avion | W20 | Avion builds and operates autonomous eVTOL drones that deliver vital… | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | — | Brook Ayalneh | Reveal | |
Avion | W20 | Avion builds and operates autonomous eVTOL drones that deliver vital… | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | — | Brook Ayalneh, Bitiya Samuel | Reveal | |
Zeitview | W15 | Inspection software for renewable energy & sustainable infrastructure | Active | Los Angeles, CA, USA; Santa Monica, CA, USA; Remote | 200 | Dan Burton, Daniel Burton | Reveal | |
Airware | W13 | Airware provides end-to-end solutions that enable enterprises to… | Inactive | San Francisco, CA, USA | 51 | Jonathan Downey, Brad Schiller | Reveal | |
Guardian RF | S24 | Drone detection for US defense and national security | Active | Washington, DC, USA | 15 | Lucas Raskin, John Andrzejewski, Eli Kerstein | Reveal | |
Theseus | S24 | GPS Denied Navigation for Drones | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 7 | Ian Laffey, Sacha Lévy, Carl Schoeller | Reveal | |
Buoyant Aero | S21 | Bringing back blimps | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Benjamin Claman | Reveal | |
Kalam Labs | S21 | Near Space Flying Machines | Active | India | 10 | Ahmad Faraaz, Sashakt Tripathi, Harshit Awasthi | Reveal | |
Kalam Labs | S21 | Near Space Flying Machines | Active | India | 10 | Ahmad Faraaz, Sashakt Tripathi, Harshit Awasthi | Reveal | |
Corvus Robotics | S18 | Autonomous drones to help warehouses scan inventory. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 30 | Jackie Wu, Mohammed Kabir | Reveal | |
Corvus Robotics | S18 | Autonomous drones to help warehouses scan inventory. | Active | Mountain View, CA, USA | 30 | Jackie Wu | Reveal | |
Paladin | S18 | We deploy autonomous drones to 911 calls. Our software gives first… | Active | Houston, TX, USA | 12 | Divyaditya Shrivastava, Divy Shrivastava | Reveal | |
Skyways | S17 | Creating a new form of air transportation to advance our civilization | Active | Austin, TX, USA | 33 | Charles Acknin | Reveal | |
ThereCraft | S17 | — | Active | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 1 | Star Simpson | Reveal | |
Iris Automation | S16 | Enabling autonomous drone operations globally through AI software | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote | — | Alexander Harmsen, James Howard | Reveal | |
Iris Automation | S16 | Enabling autonomous drone operations globally through AI software | Acquired | — | — | Alexander Harmsen, James Howard | Reveal | |
Arc | S12 | aerial videography | Inactive | Palo Alto, CA, USA | 2 | Austin Lockwood, Haomiao Huang, Michael Vitus | Reveal |
About YC Drones Companies
Y Combinator has funded 22 drones companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of drones innovation globally.
18 of these companies are currently active. 2 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC drones startup.
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