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Updated Oct 19

Autonomy · Founded 2015 · Growth stage

Hylio

Proudly American owned and operated, Hylio designs, manufactures, and provides drone systems for crop applications, wetland and forestry management, vector control, and more

Review noteFounded 2015 by Arthur Erickson at UT Austin, sales growing every year since 2018, building a Richmond, Texas factory. PitchBook search snippets report a $12M later-stage VC round on Jun 1 (not confirmed). Source ↗

Edge

25#32 · ▲213 in 7d

2 of 8 families

Why now

FAA accepted 5 new Remote ID declarations since Jul 2026: PHOTON Blue and 4 more (19 on the FAA list)
Regulatory · Oct 16
DNS records name 2 vendor tools: HubSpot and Atlassian
Traffic · Undated

Score

Momentum59

Regulatory, traffic

Thesis fit94

× 0.95

Matched on autonomous, drone, manufacturer, swarm, swarming

Earliness21

× 0.52

Already visible: funding stage, company age

Team–

× 0.85

No people identified yet

59 × 0.95 × 0.52 × 0.85 = 25

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

Undated