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Skydio is an autonomous drone manufacturer founded in 2014 by Adam Bry, Abe Bachrach, and Matt Donahoe, all MIT-trained engineers, and headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company designs and assembles its drone products at a 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Hayward, California, where a team of over 200 production employees can build an X10 drone in approximately nine minutes. Skydio’s product line focuses on autonomous flight, with its drones using onboard AI to navigate complex environments without manual pilot input, targeting public safety, military, enterprise, and critical infrastructure customers. The company serves every branch of the U.S. military, hundreds of public safety agencies across all 50 states, and major utility operators. Skydio became the first U.S. drone manufacturer to exceed a valuation of one billion dollars in 2021 and is described as the largest drone manufacturer headquartered in the United States.
