Skydio

Company Overview

Skydio manufactures autonomous drones. The company uses artificial intelligence to create intelligent flying machines that offer public safety, fire and rescue, enterprise inspection, defense, and more. It serves a variety of industries including defense, utilities, transportation, public safety, and other sectors.

Skydio's' Impact

Youth STEM Education:

We aim to expose and educate youth to inspire the next generation through hands-on activities and flight experience. We focus on non-profit and educational programs engaged in supporting underserved communities in STEM education. Through education outreach, we strive to empower youth to take the drone industry further than dreamed possible.

Cultural & Historical Preservation:

Through the combined use of Skydio’s unparalleled autonomy, obstacle avoidance, and 3D Scan, communities are empowered to create digital twins at an accelerated rate. These digital twins empower communities to preserve and rebuild structures before they are gone forever, making them forever accessible for generations to come.

Wildlife Conservation:

Our automated workflows provide valuable assistance to researchers and organizations as they work to protect and preserve endangered species and their habitats. Through our tight collaboration with partners, we support those who play a crucial role in the fight to preserve the earth's wildlife.

Current Investors

Current Investors include, Andreessen Horowitz, Linse Capital, Next47, IVP, Playground, NVIDIA and many others.

Skydio's Growth Strategy and Use of Funds

Skydio plans to leverage the new funding to accelerate product development and go-to-market expansion in enterprise and public sector markets.

Risks associated with Skydio

Drone data can be vulnerable to theft, tampering, or unauthorized access by hackers, competitors, or malicious actors.

Skydio products are secure by design, safeguarding each layer of the UAS stack against external threats. From the way we source parts to the way we develop software, security is integrated from end-to-end to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data.

The most demanding organisations in the world trust Skydio because:

1. Skydio is committed to meet the security needs of all of our customers

2. Strong encryption is used both in transit and at rest

3. All customer data resides in the United States on our secure Skydio Cloud

4. Our security is validated by best in class security auditors and penetration testers

How are Skydio driving innovation?

“We’re excited to be recognized by Fast Company as one of this year’s Most Innovative Companies,” said Skydio CEO, Adam Bry. “Our mission at Skydio is to make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous flight. This recognition is a reflection of years of work by an incredible team. We’re motivated by how much further we have to go to realize the full potential of autonomous flying machines.”

Skydio is founded on a simple premise: the way to make drones more useful is to make them more intelligent. Autonomy is the key ingredient to unlock the full potential of drone technology. Skydio autonomous drones leverage advanced computer vision to understand the environment around them and breakthrough artificial intelligence to make smart decisions while navigating without the need for a human pilot.