Best Drones Companies in Australia
The 105 best Drones companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Propeller Aerobotics.
Australia's Drones sector is one of the more quietly serious funding stories in the Asia-Pacific right now, and this directory ranks the best drone companies in Australia by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. One hundred and five companies, $182M raised in total, zero unicorns. So the capital is real but the ceiling hasn't broken yet.
Propeller Aerobotics leads the pack at $58M, with DroneShield and Swoop Aero each pulling $26M. The global market sat at roughly $4.4B in 2020 and is tracking toward $5.4B by 2027 at a 10.44% CAGR, driven hard by construction, agriculture and non-military applications. I'd watch the defence angle closely though, because the sector trend has shifted fast. FPV strikes on Russian air bases and the broader uptick in autonomous reconnaissance are reshaping buyer priorities globally, and Australian defence-adjacent firms like DroneShield feel that pull directly. As 2017 research on unmanned systems showed, the convergence of autonomy and miniaturisation was always going to accelerate commercial-to-military crossover. You're seeing that crossover land in real funding rounds right now.
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Our analysis of 50 Drones companies
$8.9b in tracked funding; 92% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Drones companies in Australia
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aerial Photography Specialists Provides industrial inspection services using drones. | — | — | — | 2005 | Paul Martin CEO | — | — |
| 2 | Aerial Pro 360 Develops a drone and associated hardware to enable the capture of 360-degree video | — | — | — | 2015 | Henry Lai Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 3 | Aero Vines Provides aerial mapping services for vineyard growers | — | — | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Aerocamaras Develops a gasoline-electricity hybrid unmanned aircraft for SAR work | — | — | — | 2017 | Jaime Pereira Gil CEO | — | — |
| 5 | Aeromatic Unmanned Aerial Solutions Providing services for aerial film & survey solutions using drones | — | — | — | 2004 | Jack Hurley Founder | — | — |
| 6 | Aerometrex Provides solutions for aerial imagery and surveys | — | — | 2 | 1980 | Mark Deuter CEO & MD | WagtailApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+27 | 1 launch |
| 7 | Aerosonde Developer and manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles for military and scientific communities in Australia… | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | AeroTech Aerial imagery capture and data analysis services for agriculture and viticulture | — | — | — | 2016 | Nicholas Janetzki Founder | — | — |
Top 12 Drones companies in Australia
#1
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2023$720Kraised▾
Platform offering drone solutions. It offers an autonomous drone solution for real-time property monitoring. It is designed for livestock management and monitoring.
- Nov 2025Seed$720K
#2
Public · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 91 employees$26.2Mraised▾
Droneshield Ltd develops and sells hardware and software for the detection of drones. The principal activity of the Company is the development, commercialisation and sales of hardware and software technology for drone detection and security. Its products include DroneGun Tactical, DroneCannon, DroneNode, and DroneShield Complete. The company provides its solutions to government and military, airports, commercial venues, prisons, and critical infrastructure. Its geographical segments are the United States and Australia.
#3
Series B · Surry Hills, New South Wales · founded 2014$57.5Mraised▾
Develops a cloud-based platform for management of drone-gathered data. It enables post-processing of data, as well as sharing it. It also provides various collaboration features. The target market includes both commercial drone operators and enterprises that use drone-based data and services.
- Apr 2023Series B$15.3M
- Jul 2020Series B$18M
- Jun 2018Series A$10M
- Sep 2016Series A$3.1M
#4
Series A · Camperdown, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 74 employees$22.9Mraised▾
Developer of drone stringing technology designed for the energy, infrastructure, and mining industries. The company's technology includes a power line stringing system that is powered by a heavy-lift unmanned aircraft to reduce environmental impacts also provides technologies to preserve vegetation, local fauna, and agricultural land, enabling businesses to have assistance with electric utilities to accelerate power grid modernization with drone-enabled power line upgrades.
#5
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 76 employees$26Mraised▾
Provider of airborne ambulatory and logistics services. The service is meant for patients living in places where ground commuting takes a long time or is not proper. It offers multi-vertical delivery services. The company offers services to places in terrain, waterways, mountain ranges, poor infrastructure places, and places with traffic congestion.
- Dec 2022Series B$10M
- Dec 2022Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Jun 2022Series B$16M
- Apr 2021Series A—
#6
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2018 · 139 employees$23Mraised▾
Provider of aerial-based earth imaging and mapping solutions. Its product portfolio includes Lidar devices, autonomous mapping drones, action cameras, and accessories. It also offers GIS software for aerial data analytics. It caters to mining, construction, agriculture, and forestry industries.
- Feb 2022Series A$23M
- Sep 2020Seed—
#7
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 23 employees$7.4Mraised▾
Provider of 3D structural lifecycle management software for asset management solutions using digital twins. It provides a suite of digital workflow tools to support inspection, reporting, maintenance planning and condition monitoring of built assets. It also generates 3D models with up to 1mm detail, virtually condition assess built assets and infrastructure.
- Dec 2022Series A$4.3M
- 2020Seed$771.4K
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 31 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based marketplace for drone piloting services. Through its app and web-based platforms, users can connect with licensed drone pilots and operators. It uses algorithms and geolocation to match clients with drone operators. Its features include on-demand data ordering and integration with cloud. Its app is available across both Android and iOS platforms.
- May 2022Seed$3M
- Nov 2020Seed$1.5M
#9
Seed · Artarmon, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 25 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Provider of electric fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. It is equipped with payload sensors and is used for aerial surveys across terrain areas. It allows users to collect and capture various data insights and offers training, operation, maintenance & other services.
- Aug 2021Seed$6.3M
#10
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2015 · 12 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Precision Autonomy provides cloud-based drone inspection solutions for insurers and brokers. It offers data and monitoring solutions for property, flight, and fleet management. It features algorithmic analysis for insurance pricing and claim processing. Also helps in tracking flight status and reviewing flight details.
- Apr 2020Series A$450K
- Jun 2019Series A$3.1M
#11
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2015 · 18 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Skyborne is a Brisbane based tech start up that is innovating the capabilities of hybrid autonomous air vehicles. Developed Cerberus (an autonomous, three-rotor hybrid aircraft) and Chimera (hybrid UAV with high speed, high endurance, and wide range) to incorporate avant-garde athleticism providing quality photo and video capabilities. These crafts are deftly tailored to customers' requirements ranging from Real Estate photography and filming, to geospatial monitoring systems, to anti-poaching air support.
- May 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2019Series A$2.5M
#12
Funding Raised · Cairns, Queensland · founded 2020 · 4 employees$342.2Kraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based crowd-sourced drone data analytic platform. It enables users to build maps using drones for multiple applications. It is an online marketplace to collect and analyze multiple drone data for mapping. Its users include drone pilots, geology researchers, land country managers, and sea country managers. It uses cloud and AI technologies.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$342.2K
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