Best Drones Companies in Texas, United States
The 66 best Drones companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Infravision.
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 Texas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Infravision Provider of automated aerial robotic systems for power infrastructure construction 48Funding top 25%Talent top 28%Global top 42%Product top 46% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Talenttop 28% Globaltop 42% Producttop 46% Techbottom 44% Marketbottom 37% Funding: Raised $114M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $114M | 7 mo ago | Series B | Christopher Cox Co-Founder & Director | 2018 | WebflowVimeoGSAP+13 | — | — |
| 2 | Darkhive Developer of drone-based defense solutions | $25M | 21 mo ago | Series A | John Goodson Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | 9 patents Modular drone launch/retrieval hardware and autonomous UAV operation systems | — |
| 3 | Prioria Small & Micro UAVs for military, public safety and commercial purposes | $20M | 142 mo ago | Deadpooled | Bryan Da Frota Co-Founder & CEO | 2003 | — | 2 patents Real-time onboard image analysis and object recognition for embedded vision systems | — |
| 4 | HUVRdata Industrial aerial inspection | $14M | 48 mo ago | Acquired | Ben Williams CEO and Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+36 | — | — |
| 5 | Allen Control Systems Provider of counter-drone robotic gun systems for military 48Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Funding top 36%Moat top 39% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Moattop 39% Techbottom 44% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 32% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $12M | 14 mo ago | Series A | Luke Allen Co-Founder & CTO | 2024 | WebflowTypekitCloudflare Turnstile+10 | — | — |
| 6 | Brightpick Provider of warehouse automation solutions using artificial intelligence powered robots | $12M | 19 mo ago | Series B | Michal Maly Co-Founder & Head of AI | 2013 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | — | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Bees360 Provider of drone-based inspection services for enterprises | $10M | 35 mo ago | Acquired | Andy Liu Founder & CEO | 2018 | SanityAmazon Web ServicesVue.js+9 | 2 patents AI-driven image analysis for property insurance underwriting and claim processing | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 8 | Hangar Technology Develops drone flight and data management software | $6M | 116 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2016 | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+9 | — | — |
| 9 | DroneSense Provider of flight planning applications for drones | $5M | 98 mo ago | Acquired | Christopher Eyhorn Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | HubSpot CMS Hubcore-jsLightbox+18 | 7 patents Real-time drone flight control and data link management systems | — |
| 10 | Optelos Platform offering AI powered image data analytics solutions | $3M | 44 mo ago | Series A | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | Panton Provider of Image analysis-based industrial solution | $3M | 127 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | 17 patents Computer vision for vehicle damage, safety inspection, and infrastructure anomaly detection | — |
| 12 | AVA Propulsion Developer of VTOL-capable autonomous aircraft | $500K | 104 mo ago | Seed | David Gonzales CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 13 | Arch Aerial Drone services for energy, construction, and water asset operators | $200K | 127 mo ago | Seed | Ryan Baker Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+25 | — | — |
| 14 | Reebeez Designs and builds microengines for drones | $125K | 120 mo ago | Seed | Ankita Ghoshal Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | 7 patents Lightweight thermionic micro‑engines and hybrid propulsion systems for UAVs | — |
| 15 | Skyways Autonomous drone solutions for long-range logistics in harsh environments | $120K | 11 mo ago | Early Stage | Charles Acknin Co-Founder | 1996 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+13 | — | — |
Top 12 Drones companies in Texas
#1
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2018$114Mraised▾
Provider of automated aerial robotic systems for power infrastructure construction. The company delivers systems to build and repair transmission lines. It offers unmanned aerial methods to reduce human risk and environmental disruption. The company provides equipment and streamlined crews to deliver projects.
- Nov 2025Series B$91M
- Sep 2023Series A$23M
#2
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2024$12Mraised▾
Provider of counter-drone robotic gun systems for military. It specialize in counter-drone robotic gun systems for military use.It automatically detects enemy UAS and kinetically defeats them.
- Mar 2025Series A$30M
- Apr 2024Seed$12M
#3
Series A · San Antonio, Texas · founded 2021 · 8 employees$25Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous drone systems designed to intuitively interact with robotics platforms in order to understand their common environment and make decisions together. The company offers a core software suite and a palm-sized autonomous drone that is optimized to demonstrate the capabilities of its software stack, enabling military and public safety robotics systems to integrate with the existing military equipment and create human-machine teams.
#4
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2013 · 72 employees$12Mraised▾
Provider of warehouse automation solutions using artificial intelligence powered robots. The company offers robots-as-a-service and standard capital expenditure purchase options. The robots automate order fulfillment, goods-to-person picking, assisted picking, order buffering, sortation, and stock replenishment.
- Nov 2024Conventional Debt—
- Nov 2024Series B$12M
#5
Early Stage · Austin, Texas · founded 1996 · 17 employees$120Kraised▾
Autonomous drone solutions for long-range logistics in harsh environments. The company provides cutting-edge autonomous aircraft for the oil & gas and military & defense industries. They specialize in developing and deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of heavy payload delivery in challenging conditions. Their solutions offer a fast, flexible, and cost-effective alternative to traditional logistics, reducing transport times and improving efficiency. They focus on embodied AI, building autonomy and flying robots to provide ultimate logistics solutions. The company is committed to innovation, pushing the limits of technology to ensure optimal safety and performance. They offer solutions for critical component transport, emergency response, and remote location support.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt$5M
- Aug 2017Unattributed$120K
#6
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2018 · 124 employees$9.8Mraised▾
Provider of drone-based inspection services for enterprises. It offers autonomous flight where the drone flies and captures all aerial imageries including the closeups, in different angles and altitudes, to generate the full roof measurements and damage detection report in real-time. The drone pilot can directly upload photos from the app to the cloud. It provides streamlined property field inspection workflow, embeds roof, and exterior inspection, automatically builds inspection reports to review, and generates an estimate on the platform.
- Jun 2023Series A$9.8M
#7
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2014 · 46 employees$14.5Mraised▾
HUVR is cloud based data analytics company that collects aerial imaging using drones and provides its services to energy infrastructure inspections (wind / solar / oil / gas) and precision agriculture. FAA approved to fly drones and provide service across USA.
- Jun 2022Series A$4M
- Oct 2020Series A$5M
- Aug 2015Seed$3.5M
- Jul 2015Seed$2M
#8
Deadpooled · Gainesville, Texas · founded 2003 · 24 employees$20Mraised▾
Prioria Robotics focuses on developing systems designed to perform sophisticated aerial security (military and civilian) or surveillance tasks. It offers the Maveric Unmanned Aircraft System and the Merlin embedded processing platform as well as engineering services to design custom offerings around both products. It also contains sensors for day, night or obscured hazy environmental reconnaissance work. Prioria also provides engineering solutions for industrial and ground robotics, medical device manufacturers, military and homeland security applications, and cutting-edge commercial products. It has been awarded $4.5 million worth of contracts to produce 36 small unmanned aircraft and 12 ground control stations for the U.S. Army in November 2013.
- Aug 2014Series C$2M
- Dec 2013Series C$5.5M
- Jun 2012Series C$5.5M
- Dec 2011Series A$4.5M
#9
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 23 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Platform offering AI powered image data analytics solutions. It leverages AI that analyzes and converts drone data, IoT sensors, and image data into insights for decision making. The platform analyzes and visualizes unstructured data from different sources such as CCTV, drones, robots, and documents. It includes drone data management software to store and manage inspection reports, digital twins, and more. It caters its solution to industries such as manufacturing, telecom, power utilities, and more.
- Oct 2022Series A$3.3M
#10
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2016 · 30 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Develops drone flight and data management software. The company creates a software solution that enables enterprises to process and manage drone-acquired data. It has competency in computer vision and intends to develop a flight control module that is capable of imparting complete autonomy to drones.
- Oct 2016Seed$6.5M
#11
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2015 · 45 employees$4.9Mraised▾
Provider of flight planning applications for drones. It enables drone pilots to specify flight mission parameters (such as survey radius, etc.) and waypoints for autonomous drone flight. It also logs flight details for use in compliance and operations tuning.
- Apr 2018Series A$4.9M
#12
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2013 · 11 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Provider of Image analysis-based industrial solution. It helps to reduce the time of the roof claims process for insurance companies by creating 2D-3D models of houses for automatic damage area detection and measurement. It is also used in pipeline laying to identify the potential barrier and monitor ground assets. It can detect leakages through near-infrared technology. It also provides solutions for wind turbine inspection for structural damages, icing, etc.
- Nov 2015Seed$2.6M
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How research on Drones Uav in Texas is moving
A read on the academic research around Drones Uav in Texas — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 301 papers.
- Texas A&M University70
- The University of Texas at Austin41
- Texas Tech University30
- The University of Texas at San Antonio28
- University of North Texas24
- Real-time computing2→4
- Software deployment1→3
- Real-time computing12
- Computer network8
- Trajectory7
- Scalability6
- Software6
- Field (mathematics)1→3
- Aeronautics2→4
- Computer security3→4
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