Drones & Aviation Companies

Nuro

Mountain View, United States

Nuro designs and manufactures fully autonomous, electric delivery vehicles – including the R2 and custom-built vehicles like those developed in collaboration with Uber and Lucid – focused on hyper-local goods transportation. Their core innovation is the Nuro Driver™ – an AI-first self-driving system prioritizing pedestrian safety and designed for commercial deployment, enabling scalable and responsible autonomy for partners. Nuro has secured key partnerships with major players like Uber, Kroger, and Domino’s, and recently received regulatory approval for commercial driverless delivery in multiple US states, demonstrating the maturity and viability of their technology.

Boom Supersonic

Denver, United States

Boom Supersonic is developing Overture, a next-generation supersonic airliner, and leverages AI extensively throughout its design and operational systems. Their technology focuses on aerodynamic optimization via AI-driven simulations, and the development of autonomous systems for flight control and performance enhancement – building on learnings from the XB-1 demonstrator aircraft. With confirmed orders from major airlines including United, American, and Japan Airlines, Boom aims to revitalize commercial supersonic travel with a focus on speed and efficiency.

Joby Aviation

Santa Cruz, United States

Joby Aviation develops electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for air taxi services. Their core technology centers on advanced flight control software and battery technology enabling quiet, piloted autonomous flight. Targeting the urban and regional air mobility market, Joby aims to provide faster, point-to-point transportation, bypassing ground-based congestion.

Archer Aviation

San Jose, United States

Archer Aviation develops all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft intended for commercial urban air mobility. Their core technology centers on integrating advanced electric propulsion systems, autonomous flight controls, and certified fly-by-wire software for safe, efficient aerial transport. Archer targets the emerging urban and regional short-distance travel market, aiming to provide a faster and more sustainable alternative to ground-based transportation.

Lilium

Munich, Germany

Lilium develops electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for regional air mobility. Their core AI technology focuses on autonomous flight control systems, including perception, path planning, and real-time decision-making for safe and efficient operation in complex airspace. Lilium targets the regional air mobility market, aiming to provide a sustainable and faster alternative to ground transportation for short-to-medium distance travel.

Stendr is a Norwegian defense-technology company building an AI-native, vertically integrated counter-drone platform that fuses multi-sensor data to detect, track and provide situational awareness against low-cost autonomous drones. Headquartered in Oslo, it raised a USD 5.4M pre-seed round in 2026 and is led by co-founders Aleksander Leonard Larsen and Robin Alexander Holm Pedersen.

SciDrones

Mytilene, Greece

SciDrones is a Greek company and University of the Aegean spin-off that maps and quantifies coastal and environmental phenomena using drones, sensors and AI algorithms with spatio-temporal visualizations. Its Coastal Marine Litter Observatory combines unmanned aerial systems and machine learning to detect, map and monitor marine litter. It won the EU CASSINI Maritime Prize for using space data to tackle ocean plastic.