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Company

Skydio

Customers
enterprise and public sector customers, Department of Defense [1]
Founded
2014 [2]
Headquarters
San Mateo, California [3] [4] [5] sources disagree
Latest Form D
$226,898,105 sold (filed 2023-03-06) [6]
latest_round
$230M Series E (2023) [4] [5] [7] sources disagree
Open roles
133 [8]
Website
https://www.skydio.com/ [2]

Leadership

  • Adam Bry Executive Officer, Director Form D
  • Abraham Bachrach Executive Officer, Director Form D
  • Michael Slade Director Form D
  • David Ulevitch Director Form D
  • T.J. Rylander Director Form D
  • Bastiaan Janmaat Director Form D

Timeline

  1. Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $170 million extension round TechCrunch
  2. Skydio improves aerial imaging with uncooled thermal camera drone payload The Robot Report
  3. Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can IEEE Spectrum
  4. Skydio’s enterprise pivot kicks off with a new drone TechCrunch
  5. Skydio Stops Selling Consumer Drones IEEE Spectrum
  6. Skydio closing consumer drone business TechCrunch
  7. Adam Bry and Hayk Martiros’s talk – Skydio Autonomy: Research in Robust Visual Navigation and Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (with video) Robohub

References

  1. spectrum.ieee.org — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    The company will be focusing on “over 1,500 enterprise and public sector customers” that are, to be fair, doing many useful and important things with Skydio drones rather than just shooting videos of themselves like the rest of us.
  2. wikidata.org — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  3. skydio.com — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  4. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    The company also touts U.S. manufacturing, based in nearby Hayward, California.
  5. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    The Bay Area-based Skydio
  6. sec.gov — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  7. techcrunch.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    American drone manufacturer Skydio has raised an extension round of $170 million
  8. jobs.ashbyhq.com — retrieved Sep 17, 2026