Best Drones Companies in Colorado, United States
The 32 best Drones companies in Colorado, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Nova Sky Stories.
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 Colorado
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nova Sky Stories Operator of drone systems for entertainment and storytelling experiences 55Growth top 28%Talent top 28%Funding top 36%Tech top 40% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 36% Techtop 40% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 31% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $50M | 14 mo ago | Series A | Lucas Oostrum Co-Founder | 2022 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+23 | — | — |
| 2 | Slingshot Aerospace Provider of AI-based satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation… 69AI top 22%Innovation top 27%Talent top 28%Patents top 32% All 11 signals ▾AItop 22% Innovationtop 27% Talenttop 28% Patentstop 32% Moattop 32% Fundingtop 35% Growthtop 35% Techtop 48% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 36% Newsbottom 21% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Innovation: 30 patents (top 42% of patent-holders) · 24 filings since 2022 vs 6 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $35M | 21 mo ago | Seed | David Godwin Co-Founder | 2017 | WebflowVimeoMicrosoft Advertising+15 | 30 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Juniper Unmanned Provider of flight management software and consulting for drones | $4M | 37 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Geovisual Analytics Drone based high resolution crop imaging and mapping | $495K | 25 mo ago | Seed | — | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Volant Aerial Provider of drone solutions for image collection | $245K | 76 mo ago | Funding Raised | Christopher Hermes CEO | 2016 | — | 2 patents AI-driven computer vision for early forest fire detection using deep convolutional networks | — |
| 6 | Black Swift Technologies UAVs for commercial applications | $116K | 82 mo ago | Funding Raised | Jack Elston President and CEO | 2011 | WordPressAsanaMySQL+38 | — | — |
| 7 | Mountain Drones Environmental UAV solutions | $25K | 141 mo ago | Deadpooled | Robert Blank Co-Founder & CTO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Aeryon Defense USA Developer of small unmanned aircraft for military applications | — | — | Unfunded | James J. Cannon CEO & President | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 7 Drones companies in Colorado
#1
Series A · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2022$50Mraised▾
Operator of drone systems for entertainment and storytelling experiences. The company designs and executes drone light shows for live events. It provides services from initial consultation and planning to the final execution. The company utilizes drone technology to create aerial displays.
- Aug 2025Series A$50M
#2
Seed · Windsor, Colorado · founded 2017$35.2Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation solutions. It provides users with a company, leveraging advanced space object tracking, artificial intelligence, astrodynamics, and data fusion to enhance awareness, improve operational efficiency, and reduce risk for all space operators.
- Jan 2025Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Sep 2024Venture Debt$30M
- Dec 2017Seed$3.3M
#3
Series A · Golden, Colorado · founded 2014 · 12 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Provider of flight management software and consulting for drones. It provides a drone flight management solution, called sparrow flight management, to enable companies to manage their drone fleets and operations. It also offers drone operation consulting and flying services to enterprises. The company also offers drone pilot training services.
- Sep 2023Conventional Debt$1.2M
- Sep 2023Series A$150K
- Jan 2022Conventional Debt$100K
- Mar 2018Series A$3.4M
#4
Seed · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2010 · 8 employees$495.2Kraised▾
Geovisual Analytics provides drone and aircraft based high resolution imaging of high value crops through its propriety computer algorithm. It provides mapping, scheduling and yield mapping to its customers from the captured data. It provides quantitative maps of crop health, weed pressure, yield projection and growth stages. It has Microsoft and NASA in its list of customers.
- Sep 2024Grant (prize money)$600K
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)$150K
- May 2023Grant (prize money)$175K
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$200K
#5
Funding Raised · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2016 · 6 employees$244.8Kraised▾
Developer of aerial monitoring platform designed for forest fire early detection, security, crop analysis, construction monitoring, workforce monitoring, inventory management, port monitoring, wildlife management, natural disaster monitoring, and much more. The company's system is comprised of a network of autonomously operating hardware components, including drones, aerostats, and towers armed with high-powered RGB and thermal cameras positioned in strategic vantage points and also includes aerial and ground sensors that monitor a multitude of additional variables, enabling people to access and control it from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection.
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$244.8K
#6
Funding Raised · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2011 · 9 employees$116.1Kraised▾
Black Swift Technologies designs and develops unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial purpose. Product line includes S1 and S2. S1 is a fully autonomous surveying and mapping platform that takes off via hand launch and features landing algorithms for a precise belly landing. S2 includes the features of the former and additionally is equipped with a modular forward located, nose cone- payload bay allowing it to carry scientific payloads in demanding atmospheric environments. Both the aircraft are fixed-winged and features Swiftcore, a proprietary flight management system. Other applications are in the areas of environmental monitoring, infrastructure inspection, engineering and surveying, construction management and monitoring, precision agriculture etc. The company provides customized development solutions as well.
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$116.1K
#7
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 2013$25Kraised▾
Mountain Drones Inc. provides Unmanned Aerial System solutions uniquely purposed for environmental monitoring. Developing technology capable of gathering valuable environmental data (including snow-water-equivalent). Business relationships have been developed with key hydrology, environmental, and snow science customers. Revenue growth will be driven by recurring service contracts and equipment sales.
- Feb 2015Seed$25K
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How research on Drones Uav in Colorado is moving
A read on the academic research around Drones Uav in Colorado — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 145 papers.
- Barro Colorado Island45
- University of Colorado Boulder32
- Colorado State University20
- Colorado School of Mines18
- University of Colorado System17
- Context (archaeology)3
- Field (mathematics)3
- Computer security3
- Scalability2
- Selection (genetic algorithm)2
- Real-time computing4
- Remote sensing4
- Photogrammetry3
- Multispectral image3
- Healthcare delivery3
- Remote sensing4
- Flexibility (engineering)2
- Imaging spectroscopy2
- Spectroscopy2
- Orthophoto2
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