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Funding and backers

Total raised
$94M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$15M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
197
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +6% in a year
Hiring now
8
open roles
Backers
6
High Alpha, Bessemer Venture Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 30 Acquired Procore buys DroneDeploy for $845M to give its AI sight · TNW Merge-and-acquisition Oct 28, 2025 Launched DroneDeploy Introduces Agentic AI and Robotics Advancements at Horizons 2025 · DRONELIFE Sep 9, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $15M · AEC Magazine Jun 17, 2025 Partnership Point One Navigation and DroneDeploy partner to deliver centimeter-accurate positioning for aerial and ground reality capture · YahooFinance Oct 12, 2022 Acquisition DroneDeploy Acquires Structionsite, Promises Integrated Reality Capture · ENRnews Feb 4, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $50M · Venturebeat Oct 11, 2016 Launched DroneDeploy Launches Drone Service Provider Directory to Help Businesses Ramp Drone Operations · YahooFinance Aug 24, 2016 Raised a round Series B $20M · TechCrunch Mar 31, 2015 Raised a round Venture round $9M · TechCrunch 2013 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
4
best: 7 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2025 $15M — AEC Magazine
Venture round Feb 2021 $50M — Venturebeat
Series B Aug 2016 $20M — TechCrunch
Venture round Mar 2015 $9M — TechCrunch
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How DroneDeploy hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

DroneDeploy scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

DroneDeploy is a software company that turns drone and ground robot imagery into surveys, maps and progress models. Construction, energy and agriculture teams use its platform to measure sites without manual field work, with automated flight planning and photogrammetric processing. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

News

News TNW Merge-and-acquisition 3 months ago
Procore buys DroneDeploy for $845M to give its AI sight
Procore is buying DroneDeploy for about $845m to give its construction AI
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News AEC Magazine 11 months ago
Sisk boosts reality capture with DroneDeploy
Sisk boosts reality capture with DroneDeploy. Platform enhances progress tracking, design verification, and stakeholder communication.
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News DRONELIFE 12 months ago
DroneDeploy Introduces Agentic AI and Robotics Advancements at Horizons 2025
DroneDeploy AI agents advance safety, progress tracking and predictive maintenance while expanding robotics and survey grade accuracy.
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News SiliconANGLE 12 months ago
DroneDeploy adds agentic AI and robotics enhancements to expand mapping and inspection
DroneDeploy adds agentic AI and robotics enhancements to expand mapping and inspection - SiliconANGLE
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News constructdive 1 year ago
6 contech firms raise combined $116M
Reality capture and projection startups made up the bulk of funding rounds in recent months.
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News AEC Magazine 1 year ago
DroneDeploy raises $15M to drive development
DroneDeploy raises $15m to drive technology development. Reality capture specialist will invest in AI and robotics products
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News The Drone Girl 1 year ago
DroneDeploy's Progress AI could mark a big moment for drone data
From site walks to AI-powered insight in minutes, Progress AI uses drone and 360 camera data to simplify construction tracking.
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News AEC Magazine 1 year ago
AI automates construction progress tracking
Progress AI from DroneDeploy automates construction progress tracking. Interprets real-world visual data from drone flights and 360 walkthroughs
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News MIT Technology Review 1 year ago
How generative AI could help make construction sites safer
Generative AI could help make construction sites safer-so long as it doesn't replace humans entirely.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at DroneDeploy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
C++
Frameworks & libraries
Appium
Detox
Espresso
ROS
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
GitHub Actions
AWS
Azure
AI & ML
Claude
Gaussian Splatting
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Full DroneDeploy tech stack 34 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
50% ▼
Sales
50% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
New location: Sydney Sep 2026
New location: Chicago Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Sep 2026
Added Physical AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Embodied AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Zapier to stack Sep 2026
Added Marketo to stack Sep 2026
Added GDPR to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
Chicago
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Chicago United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Sydney Australia
Sales office
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Solutions
seen since May 2026 job postings
Auckland New Zealand
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Houston United States
Sales office
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Solutions
seen since Jun 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $54k – $148k per year (Estimated) • In office • Auckland
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≈ $126k – $244k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Houston
Python
AI Agents
Physical AI
Embodied AI
Robotics
ROS
Apply
≈ $91k – $176k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, ET hours) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
React Native
Espresso
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
CI/CD
Jenkins
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
Robotics
Obstacle Avoidance
Management
Slack
Jira
QA
Appium
Detox
Apply
≈ $164k – $287k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
C++
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Claude Code
Computer Vision
AI Agents
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Gaussian Splatting
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
GitHub Actions
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
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≈ $89k – $205k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sydney
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Financials

Total raised
$94M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $15M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $50M Details
Series B 2016 $20M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2015 $9M Details