# Performance Drone Works: drone company

Canonical ID: `05a7774f-11ac-41b2-956b-a6117ed0772e`

## Key facts

- **Funding:** [$110M+ (Series B)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **DoD Loan:** $820M conditional

- **Slug:** performance-drone-works
- **HQ:** Huntsville, Alabama, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 110000000
- **Category:** [Drones](/drones)

## Models

- [Attritable Multirotor Strike Drone](/models/pdw-attritable-multirotor.md) (aerial) (id: `225f37e4-968b-4435-9bd9-968fdd26d777`)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Performance Drone Works?

Defense technology company building multi-mission autonomous drones for military applications including surveillance, electronic warfare, and strike. Received $820M conditional loan from DoD Office of Strategic Capital.

### What does Performance Drone Works make?

Performance Drone Works has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Attritable Multirotor Strike Drone (Performance Drone Works builds physical robots).

### Who competes with Performance Drone Works?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Performance Drone Works building in the same form factors include Anduril Industries, DJI, Amazon, Autel Robotics.

### Where is Performance Drone Works headquartered?

Performance Drone Works is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

### How much funding has Performance Drone Works raised?

Performance Drone Works has raised approximately $110M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Performance Drone Works operate robots?

Performance Drone Works is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Performance Drone Works a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Performance Drone Works ranks in roughly the top 56% of companies tracked by the registry.


## Sources (1)

1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pdw-raises-over-110m-in-series-b-financing-to-expand-product-offerings-strengthen-engineering-capabilities-and-scale-production-of-modular-military-drones-302724165.html

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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