Best Drones Companies in New South Wales, Australia
The 37 best Drones companies in New South Wales, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Propeller Aerobotics.
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$8.9b in tracked funding; 92% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Drones companies in New South Wales
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Propeller Aerobotics Develops a cloud-based platform for management of drone-gathered data | $58M | 40 mo ago | Series B | Rory Miguel Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | 14 patents UAV navigation and state estimation using visual geo-referencing and sensor fusion | 4 launchs |
| 2 | droneshield DroneShield is a global leader in counter-UAS and AI based multi-mission solutions for Defense and Public… | $26M | 27 mo ago | Public | — | 2013 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+36 | 11 patents RF and acoustic drone detection and classification systems for counter‑UAS applications. | 1 expansion |
| 3 | Infravision Provider of a drone stringing system | $23M | 35 mo ago | Series A | Cameron Van Der Berg Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — |
| 4 | Trendspek Provider of 3D structural lifecycle management software for asset management solutions using digital twins | $7M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Derek Feebrey CEO | 2018 | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 5 | Carbonix Provider of electric fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles | $6M | 61 mo ago | Seed | Dario Valenza Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 6 | Aerologix Provider of a cloud-based marketplace for drone piloting services | $4M | 51 mo ago | Seed | Tom Caska Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | — | — |
| 7 | Precision Autonomy Drone inspection solutions for insurers | $4M | 77 mo ago | Series A | Mark Halverson Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | TypeScriptZone.jsAngular+12 | — | — |
| 8 | Skyy Network Provider of air traffic management solution for drones | $500K | 81 mo ago | Funding Raised | Sorin Moisa Co-Founder & Chairman | 2018 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Drones companies in New South Wales
#1
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.
#2
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
#3
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.
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
#7
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
#8
Funding Raised · Newcastle, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 8 employees$500Kraised▾
Skyy Network provides air traffic management solution for drones. The solution helps governments create, implement and monitor the infrastructure in the sky for drone traffic management. The operating system consists of four modules: Flight Information Management System (FIMS), Policy & Regulatory, Economics and Risk Management.
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$500K
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 11 employees$30Kraised▾
HireUAV is a provider of UAV Solutions for the mining industry. HiveUAV combines UAV and docking system in order to monitor remote locations from the air. Functionalities include Ground and stockpile surveys, Environmental inspections, Blast Monitoring, Surveillance, Incident response and management, Plant and equipment inspections, and Highwall Inspections. The company also provides Honeycomb, a software that utilizes the technology and functionality provided by the UAV and the Hive. Honeycomb is the main access point for the user to the system to determine the status of UAV missions, future scheduled and planned missions, mission flight information, access to live imagery and captured imagery.
- Aug 2015Grant (prize money)$19K
- Mar 2015Seed$30K
#10
Funding Raised · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 1999$10Kraised▾
OCIUS is a developer of unmanned surface sea vehicle for oil & gas, defence, and environmental activities. The unmanned sea surface vehicle Bluebottle USV. Can carry payload including sensors and modules of up to 300kg and achieve up to 5.7 mph speed. Also, allows customers to live control and view position and data from the installed sensors.Has 5 patents in its portfolio. Can perform activities like oil & gas seadbed pipeline mapping and monitoring, collection of pre-exploration offshore data, early warning notifications, and others for oil & gas upstream companies. Also, can be used for weather monitoring, fishery alarm systems, and defence applications. Partner list includes Australian Government Department of Defence, Thales, Clark IP, and others. Was awarded Australian Maritime Innovation Award: Defence SME - with a $10k grant in 2017.
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$10K
#11
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 16 employees—raised▾
Online platform for drone-based data visualization. It offers to capture and draw insights from the information gathered by the UAVs. It monetizes through a subscription-based pricing model.
- Oct 2021Seed—
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How research on Drones & UAVs is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Drones & UAVs — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,070 Australia-affiliated papers.
- UNSW Sydney125
- Deakin University62
- The University of Sydney61
- University College London59
- Queensland University of Technology52
- Real-time computing1→19
- Aeronautics1→10
- Human–computer interaction2→7
- Remote sensing2→29
- Aerial survey1→22
- Environmental resource management1→17
- Real-time computing1→14
- Wildlife3→15
- Computer security6→18
- Remote sensing1→9
- Ecology1→9
- Context (archaeology)1→7
- Internet of Things1→7
Where drones uav is researched across Australia
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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