56 Drone Startups Taking 2020 By Storm

November 28, 2020

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Drone startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Drone industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Welp Magazine  hosts a yearly startup award honouring the most outstanding entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses in the world. If you want to enter your startup to be in the running for the top startup of 2021 or learn more about our competition click here.


1. Ware

The idea behind this startup: Autonomous, self-flying drones + AI for warehouse inventory

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Enterprise Software, Logistics, Machine Learning, Robotics, Software

Founders: Ian Smith, Joseph Moster

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

2. Mockingbird

The idea behind this startup: Mockingbird is a new baby gear brand on a mission to empower parents.

Headquarters: New York, New York, United States

Industries: Consumer Goods, Drones, E-Commerce, Fashion, Leisure

Founders: Eric Osman

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

3. Airsmat

The idea behind this startup: Airsmat is a provider of cutting edge software solutions to many rapidly growing industries adopting drones into daily operations.

Headquarters: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Industries: Drones, Software

Founders: Ibikunle Adeoluwa

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

4. Skydweller

The idea behind this startup: Skydweller Aero Inc, and would lead marketing of the drone internationally.

Headquarters: Oklahoma, United States

Industries: Aerospace, Drone Management, Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

5. Voliro Airborne Robotics

The idea behind this startup: Voliro is developing advanced flying robots to perform Inspection and Maintenance tasks. Voliro’s flying robot can “fly, see and touch”.

Headquarters: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Industries: Drones, Robotics, Software

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

6. Skyqraft

The idea behind this startup: Skyqraft provides autonomous aerial infrastructure inspection.

Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Machine Learning, Power Grid

Founders: David Almroth, Sakina Turabali, Umar Chughtai

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

7. Soar Robotics

The idea behind this startup: Reliable Connectivity for the Autonomous World.

Headquarters: West Hollywood, California, United States

Industries: Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Robotics, Telecommunications

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

8. Labelfuse

The idea behind this startup: End-to-end computer vision for event driven analytics

Headquarters: Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Drones, Health Diagnostics, Image Recognition, Machine Learning, Robotics, Software

Founders: Jurgen Van der Vlist, Kelvin Aongola

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

9. MARUT Drones

The idea behind this startup: MARUT Drones is a research and product development company using drone technology to curb mosquito menace.

Headquarters: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Information Technology, Software

Founders: Prem Kumar Vislawath

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

10. Ellipsis Earth

The idea behind this startup: Ellipsis Earth specializes in detecting, categorising and tracking plastic waste in the environment and throughout supply chains

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Drones, Information Technology, Waste Management

Founders: Ellie Mackay

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

11. Deuce Drone

The idea behind this startup: Deuce Drone designs and operates a drone delivery system for retailers.

Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industries: Drones, Last Mile Transportation

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

12. Aero41

The idea behind this startup: Aero41 is developing a drone entirely dedicated to crop protection.

Headquarters: Aigle, Vaud, Switzerland

Industries: Agriculture, Drones, Robotics

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

13. SUIND

The idea behind this startup: SUIND is an AI-based system platform for commercial drones.

Headquarters: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Drone Management, Drones, Information Technology, Software

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

14. EcoDrone

The idea behind this startup: EcoDrone designs wind and solar powered autonomous marine drones aimed to collect Ocean Data and coastal monitoring.

Headquarters: Firenze, Toscana, Italy

Industries: Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Energy, Information Technology

Founders: Andrea Bertini, Marco Montagni, Nicola Di Luca

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

15. AirSelfie

The idea behind this startup: Technology company that operates in the photography sector and realizes aerial cameras that enhance the photography experiences of users.

Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Industries: Consumer Electronics, Drones, Photography, Robotics

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

16. Tangram Vision

The idea behind this startup: Infrastructure software to simplify sensor integration and management for vision-enabled devices.

Headquarters: Boulder, Colorado, United States

Industries: Autonomous Vehicles, Drone Management, Drones, Robotics, Sensor

Founders: Adam Rodnitzky, Brandon Minor

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

17. MightyFly

The idea behind this startup: Connecting remote locations with fast, low cost, long-range aerial drone delivery services

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Industries: Aerospace, Delivery Service, Drones, Logistics, Robotics

Founders: Manal Habib, Scott Parker

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

18. Vyorius

The idea behind this startup: Healthcare Aerial Delivery Service

Headquarters: Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Industries: Delivery Service, Drones, Health Care, Logistics

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

19. Aerologix

The idea behind this startup: Aerologix is a platform that connects customers with drone pilots.

Headquarters: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Industries: Drones, Information Technology, Service Industry

Founders: Rakesh Routhu, Tom Caska

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

20. AJ-Drone Ltd

The idea behind this startup: AJ-Drone Ltd is a photography and videography business.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Drones, Film, Photo Editing, Photography, Video, Video Editing

Founders: Ashley Widowson

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

21. CHECKTOBUILD

The idea behind this startup: We are an autonomous inspection service that faces overbudget and overtime in construction projects, with a differential quality value.

Headquarters: Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Industries: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Construction, Drones, Information Technology, Smart Building, Software

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

22. Space Forms

The idea behind this startup: Space Forms aims to build space drones for autonomous fault detection and maintenance of satellites and space structures.

Headquarters: Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Industries: Drones, Hardware, Software, Space Travel

Founders: Rohan Dsilva

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

23. Heven Drones

The idea behind this startup: HevenDrones is a drone manufacturer based in Israel focusing on the hardware and software to support heavy-lifting applications.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones, Manufacturing

Founders: Bentzion Levinson, Dudu Parpara

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

24. Robotics Eye

The idea behind this startup: Automated drone solutions, AI-driven

Headquarters: Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Industries: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Drone Management, Drones, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Mapping Services, Robotics

Founders: Abdullah Ajlan

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

25. Sensefarming

The idea behind this startup: Sense farming – Farming that makes sense.

Headquarters: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine

Industries: Agriculture, AgTech, Big Data, Drones, Farming, Information Services

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

26. Brain Pool Tech

The idea behind this startup: Brain Pool Tech integrates high precision drone data with 2nd and 3rd layer data in an easy to use software eco-system

Headquarters: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Industries: Drones, Information Technology, Software

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

27. Unmanned Systems Operations Group

The idea behind this startup: A systems integration company specializing in the design and implementation of drones for Medical Asset Delivery and Coastal Security

Headquarters: San Diego, California, United States

Industries: Delivery, Delivery Service, Drones, Health Care, Logistics, Public Safety, Risk Management, Robotics, Security

Founders: Pharns Genece

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

28. Skyway

The idea behind this startup: End to end automated drone solutions

Headquarters: Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Industries: Drones, Software

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

29. EQUINOX’ S DRONES

The idea behind this startup: We render Specialized Drone services for projects across India, including Aerial Photography, Drone Survey, Volumetric Analysis, UAV

Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Industries: Aerospace, Drone Management, Drones, Farming, Geospatial, Mapping Services, Military, Mining Technology, Service Industry

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

30. DroneSec

The idea behind this startup: Drone Security

Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Industries: Corrections Facilities, Cyber Security, Drone Management, Drones, Penetration Testing, Security, Training

Founders: Mike Monnik

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

31. DronePro USA

The idea behind this startup: Consumer and Prosumer Drones

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones

Founders: Fadl Azzam, Shayne Chatterton

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

32. BetterDrones

The idea behind this startup: Betterdrones provides training services for developing the ecosystem for the Drone industry.

Headquarters: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Industries: Drones, Education, Training

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

33. Zyro

The idea behind this startup: Zyro is an aerial drone game and brainchild of veteran engineers, drone enthusiasts, and rugby players for outdoor sport.

Headquarters: Redwood City, California, United States

Industries: Apps, Drones, Recreation

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

34. Aeronica Advance Technologies

The idea behind this startup: Aeronica Advance Technologies offers UAV survey and mapping, GIS data processing and UAV maintenance services.

Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Industries: Aerospace, Drones, Virtual Reality

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

35. UAVLAS

The idea behind this startup: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES LANDING ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS

Headquarters: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Industries: Aerospace, Delivery, Drone Management, Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

36. Skartum

The idea behind this startup: Skartum offers construction stitching, documentation, drone mapping and scanning services.

Headquarters: Prestfoss, Buskerud, Norway

Industries: Construction, Document Management, Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

37. Arbito

The idea behind this startup: Arbito provides image inspection, analysis, and repair service using AI.

Headquarters: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Internet of Things, Machine Learning

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

38. Tulpar Labs

The idea behind this startup: Drone Delivery Professionals

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

39. Aero Company

The idea behind this startup: Intelligent operations and processes through drones and machien learning

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: AgTech, Big Data, Drones, IaaS, Machine Learning, Mining, Mining Technology, SaaS

Founders: Octavio Lizana

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

40. Meshine

The idea behind this startup: Drone as a Service, Software Development

Headquarters: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

Industries: AgTech, Drone Management, Drones, Energy Management, Media and Entertainment, Physical Security, Software

Founders: Burak YÖRÜK

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

41. NutzenTech

The idea behind this startup: NutzenTech is a greentech startup that provides data and technology focused solutions to improve customers’ environmental footprints.

Headquarters: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Industries: Drones, Information Technology, Sensor, Software

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

42. All In Drone

The idea behind this startup: An All-In-One Solution to Property Drone Video Nationwide

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Commercial Real Estate, Drones, Video Editing

Founders: Dave Lewand

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

[adace-ad id=”4426″]

43. Minoair

The idea behind this startup: Minoair is cloud based platform to convert on-site Drone Images into 2D and 3D Maps and do analytics and collaborate.

Headquarters: Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Drone Management, Drones, Information Technology, Software

Founders: Mohit Sahu, Puru Agrawal

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin


44. Pera AI

The idea behind this startup: Pera AI provides AI-enabled power management systems and real-time monitoring of the system in electric mobile devices and EVs.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Machine Learning, Robotics, Software

Founders: Nima Schei

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin


45. Brisk

The idea behind this startup: Drone Delivery Service

Headquarters: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Industries: Drones, Logistics

Founders: Adetola Anifalaje

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website


46. Emi Lab

The idea behind this startup: Emi Lab is a manufacturer and seller of custom-made drones and robots.

Headquarters: Suwa, Nagano, Japan

Industries: Drones, Manufacturing, Robotics

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook


47. Drone Industry Wire

The idea behind this startup: Press Release Distribution for the Drone Industry

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Content, Digital Media, Drones, Public Relations

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin


48. Sun E Mates LLC

The idea behind this startup: Innovative disinfecting secure mailbox replacement.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones, Hardware, Internet of Things, Logistics, Supply Chain Management

Founders: Gary Alston

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

Linkedin


49. Prope

The idea behind this startup: Mobile App. “Prope: photographer near me” – professional photographer, videographer and drone operator, finder.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Apps, Drones, Photography, Video

Founders: Sergii Mashevskyi

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website


50. DragonX

The idea behind this startup: DragonX provides automated drone-on-demand service.

Headquarters: Benei Zion, HaMerkaz, Israel

Industries: Drones, Service Industry

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin


51.Ultrabot Innovations

The idea behind this startup: Ultrabot Innovations is a group of companies. The company has subsidiaries in Recruiting Services, Investment Banking, Drone manufacturing..

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones, Funding Platform, Internet, Manufacturing, Recruiting

Founders: Naveen Meena

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin


51.Ultrabot Innovations

The idea behind this startup: Ultrabot Innovations is a group of companies. The company has subsidiaries in Recruiting Services, Investment Banking, Drone manufacturing..

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones, Funding Platform, Internet, Manufacturing, Recruiting

Founders: Naveen Meena

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Linkedin


46. PrintDrone

The idea behind this startup: PrintDrone is a robotic flying drone, able to print murals, decorations and advertisements on walls of public spaces.

Headquarters: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Industries: Autonomous Vehicles, Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website


47. VERTLINER

The idea behind this startup: SaaS, drone, marketplace, IoT, cloud

Headquarters: Athens, Attiki, Greece

Industries: Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Drones, Information Services, Internet of Things, Marketplace, Robotics

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin


46. Brett Currie Photo/Video

The idea behind this startup: Drone Services, Photography & Filmmaking

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones, Film, Film Production, Photography

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website


55. Drone Aerial Mapping Inc

The idea behind this startup: Drone Service in Lincoln, NE

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website


56. JWStuff

The idea behind this startup: Online retailer specialising in Jeep Accessories and Drones.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Automotive, Drones

Founders: Unknown

Follow this startup or buy their offering:

Crunchbase

Website

Facebook

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.