Best Drones Companies in Ontario, Canada
The 43 best Drones companies in Ontario, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Aeryon Labs.
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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 Ontario
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aeryon Labs Provider of UAVs for HD imagery and aerial intelligence operations | $47M | 130 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2007 | — | 26 patents Advanced UAV propulsion, control, safety, and calibration technologies for autonomous drones. | — |
| 2 | SkyX Develops a VTOL drone and provides inspection services | $16M | 77 mo ago | Series B | Didi Horn Founder and CEO | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 15 patents VTOL unmanned aerial vehicles with hybrid flight, compact landing, autonomous range, secure links | — |
| 3 | Flash Forest Provider of AI and drone-based wildlife conservation and reforestation solutions | $10M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Bryce Jones Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | 6 patents Automated seed pod deployment systems for large‑scale afforestation and reforestation | 1 internship · 1 partnership |
| 4 | Drone Delivery Canada Provider of drone delivery services | $7M | 41 mo ago | Public | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 43 patents Autonomous drone delivery logistics with secure communications, landing zone detection, and payload management | — |
| 5 | Deveron UAS Provider of drone data ag‑tech services | $6M | 67 mo ago | Public | David MacMillan Co-Founder & CEO | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Skygauge Manufactures drones for industrial inspection | $3M | 70 mo ago | Seed | Linar Ismagilov Co-Founder | 2019 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | — | 1 job opening |
| 7 | DroneEntry Provider of workflow management solutions for drone pilots and enterprises | $384K | 78 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | AirShare Developer of anti drone systems to protect critical infrastructure | $220K | 90 mo ago | Seed | Shanaz Sigouin Co-Founder | 2002 | — | 26 patents Haptic gun alerts and UAV interception countermeasure technologies | — |
Top 12 Drones companies in Ontario
#1
Public · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2011 · 50 employees$7.1Mraised▾
Provider of drone delivery services. It offers solutions to customize, deploy and operate commercial drone delivery platforms. Its drones facilitate cargo delivery, and it offers drone-enabled services for the civilian, mining, oil and gas, healthcare, and military sectors.
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$54.7K
- Feb 2018Post IPO$7M
- Mar 2013Post IPO$24.7K
- Apr 2012Post IPO$20K
#2
Series A · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019 · 29 employees$9.9Mraised▾
Provider of reforestation services intended to reforest the planet at a rapid pace. The company uses hardware, aerial mapping software, automation, and biological seed-pod technology to reforest post-harvest and post-wildfire areas, enabling businesses to offset enough carbon emissions in order to have a significant and measurable impact on climate change.
#3
Public · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2011 · 103 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Provider of drone data ag‑tech services. It is a platform that provides drone‑based data acquisition and analytics services to farmers and agribusinesses. It operates a network of pilots, sensors and software tools to deliver agricultural insights.
- Jan 2021Post IPO$4.6M
- Apr 2020Post IPO$700K
- Apr 2020Post IPO$655K
- Mar 2018Post IPO$406.6K
#4
Series B · Markham, Ontario · founded 2015 · 20 employees$15.8Mraised▾
SkyX Systems Corp. develops a long-endurance, long-range VTOL drone for inspection and monitoring applications. It uses the drone to also provide inspection services. The company claims that its drone is partially autonomous, capable of following pre-programmed waypoints. The drone carries optical, hyperspectral and thermal cameras. SkyX's services are applicable to multiple industries, including railways, manufacturing and power plants, energy infrastructure (oil and gas, electric transmission pylons), etc.
- Mar 2020Series B—
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$56.6K
- Sep 2018Series B$9.5M
- May 2017Series A$4M
#5
Acquired · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 2007 · 220 employees$46.7Mraised▾
Aeryon Labs UAVs for HD imagery and aerial intelligence operations. Offers human-packable, autonomous hovering aerial systems that allow unskilled operators to capture high-resolution imagery. It provides Aeryon Scout which is a vertical take-off and landing micro unmanned aerial vehicle used for tactical and over-the-hill aerial intelligence. The scout features a touch-screen interface and a field interchangeable payload interface to support multiple payloads. Aeryon's Scout has been used in several high-profile operations by Libyan Rebels, US Coast Guard, British Petroleum, and more.
- Oct 2015Series A$45.7M
- Jun 2012Seed$985K
- Jul 2009Seed—
#6
Seed · Toronto, Ontario · founded 2019 · 15 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Skygauge designs and manufactures drones for industrial inspection applications. It has developed a drone that tilts four rotors to keep the main body stable and is equipped with a sensor that attaches to a metal structure, such as an oil rig, and collects corrosion data within a few seconds. Its drone can conduct inspections of large metal structures, like oil and gas facilities, offshore platforms, bridges, and ships.
- Oct 2020Seed$2.6M
- 2019Seed$250K
#7
Acquired · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2017 · 3 employees$384.4Kraised▾
Provider of workflow management solutions for drone pilots and enterprises. It offers products such as Enterprise dashboard, pilot dashboard, and more. It offers solutions for surveying & mapping, construction, mining, and more.
- Feb 2020Angel$384.4K
- Apr 2018Seed—
#8
Seed · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 2015 · 12 employees$95Kraised▾
Developer of lightweight hybrid powertrains UAVs. Its primary offering is patent-pending power electronics to control the hybrid power system. The system is enabled with a self-diagnostic capability that allows the controller to monitor the status and odometer of all subsystems and relays the information directly to the ground station.
- Aug 2020Seed$60K
- Mar 2016Seed$35K
#9
Seed · Ottawa, Ontario · founded 2002$220Kraised▾
AirShare has developed counter-drone systems to protect critical infrastructure such as airports from malicious drones. Its offering, also known as OVERWATCH Interceptor-UX, uses a surface-to-air missile able to create high-persistence countermeasure cloud. It comprises of four main components namely the missile that create the countermeasure cloud, uFDR detectors to detect the UAV threats, remote monitoring terminal which is used to identify the drone threat, and the base station used to launch the missile. Claims that the solution is based on five patent-pending technologies which enable detection, tracking, and kinetic mitigation of small UAVs using a high-persistence countermeasure cloud which improves the ability to defeat incoming small UAV threats under all conditions by disabling their propulsion system.
- Feb 2019Seed$120K
- Oct 2018Seed$100K
#10
Seed · Waterloo, Ontario · founded 2017 · 3 employees$30Kraised▾
Visionary Semiconductor is a developer of 3D imaging and IoT based products and applications. It offers color imaging and depth mapping using its device. It has applications in multiple sectors including vision-based robotic arms, logistics, cleaning & service robots, drones, automotive, AR glasses, and smartphones.
- Jun 2018Seed$30K
#11
Acquired · Kitchener, Ontario · founded 2009 · 75 employees$25Kraised▾
Provider of deep sea exploration robots. It has developed a portable mini ROV that can be used for exploration of water bodies. Their DTG2 and DTX2 Rov lines are developed after customer feedback. The DT340 pipe crawler robot is a 4 wheeled robot that can crawl inside pipes and perform inspection. The robot can be controlled by a hand held monitor and controller.
- Jan 2015Seed$25K
#12
Funding Raised · Toronto, Ontario · founded 1986—raised▾
AUG Signals (Airborne Underwater Geophysical Systems) develops sensor systems and signal detection and processing systems for use in industrial and military applications. Its sensor systems can be mounted on UAVs for remote sensing or on land-based and maritime systems for target detection, as well as in urban settings for traffic monitoring. The collected data can be processed using AUG's online distributed processing capabilities.
- Apr 2022Grant (prize money)—
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