CategoryDrones
Appears inMilitary & defense drones
Overview
Leading U.S. provider of tethered drone systems for defense and security. Based in Sanford, Florida. Flagship platforms: Spectre (first and only tethered UAS on DIU Blue List, NDAA-compliant, Green UAS certified) and Sentry.
Over 800 tethered drones sold to U.S. and allied defense customers. Strategic partnership with Leonardo DRS (lead investor) and KRM for component manufacturing. USD 20M Series B in Oct 2025 led by Leonardo DRS and KRM.
Reality check
Certifications (company-claimed)
DIU Blue UAS and AUVSI Green UAS; Hoverfly calls Spectre the first and only tethered drone on the DIU Blue List.
Series B investors (company-claimed)
Oct 2025: Led by Leonardo DRS ($15 million) with Korea Robot Manufacturing, or KRM ($5 million).
DRS manufacturing deal (company-claimed)
DRS will expand Sentry production and launch a Spectre production line; both DRS and KRM resell and integrate Sentry and Spectre.
KRM role (company-claimed)
Exclusive manufacturer of key components and preferred vendor for future components.
Units sold (company-claimed)
Over 800 tethered drones sold to US and allied defense customers.
NEXUS (company-claimed)
Network Extension of Unmanned Systems, for BVLOS ISR, FPV and loitering munitions across land, sea and air.
SPECTRE payload (company-claimed)
5.0 to 8.0 pounds, depending on payload power draw and conditions.
Tethered power (company-claimed)
Continuous power through the tether allows flights of hours, days or weeks instead of battery-limited sorties.
Fail-safe design (company-claimed)
Redundant architecture intended to keep operating after power interruption or communication loss.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Missions
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Models (1)
View all models →Hoverfly Technologies on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jan 2022. Explore where Hoverfly Technologies's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Hoverfly Technologies deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Steve Walters President & CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Hoverfly Technologies.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Hoverfly Technologies2 deployments
Recent coverage
Hoverfly Technologies in third-party press
Peers
96 peers across 1 segment. Every Hoverfly Technologies competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
drone(96)
57 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 1809.2177305910177) · leader Anduril Industries at 3057%
- AEVEX Aerospacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATL Global Holding AGdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aereodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AeroVironmentdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgXeeddirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AirForestrydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Hoverfly Technologies.
Robots and products (1)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $20.0M
- Employees
- 60
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Funding rounds (1)
- Series B2025-10-08
$20M(reported)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Hoverfly Technologies’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2025-10-08Series B raising $20000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2022
Hoverfly Spectre Tethered UAS at United States (US-Mexico border security)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2020
Hoverfly Spectre Tethered UAS at United States
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Hoverfly Technologies.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- DJI9 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- Skydio6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Hoverfly Technologies from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/hoverfly-technologies.md
- RSS feed: /companies/hoverfly-technologies/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/dec22db7-6f39-4393-b259-96e8ce908962
- Revision history: /companies/hoverfly-technologies/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- DJI9 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- Skydio6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Hoverfly Technologies draws attention at the 13th percentile but verifies reality at the 33rd percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap -20.2, 82nd widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 6, 2026