Horus Aeronaves

Name

Horus Aeronaves

Website

https://horusaeronaves.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

UAV / Drone Manufacturing

NAICS

Aircraft Manufacturing (336411), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (336413)

SIC

Aircraft & Parts (3720)

akta.pro primary industry

Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aircraft (UAV) (IMABAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Aerial Surveying & Crop Scouting (Imaging, Mapping, Stand Counts) (AFACAIAJ), VTOL & Hybrid UAV Platforms (IMABAIAC), Autonomous Flight Control & Guidance Systems (UAS/Urban Air Mobility) (IMABAFAO)

Keywords

• UAV manufacturing
• Aerial mapping services
• Drone manufacturing
• Image processing platform
• Aerial surveying

Headquarters

HQ city

Florianópolis

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Horus Aeronaves develops aerial solutions centered on the national (Brazilian) manufacturing of VANTs (unmanned aerial vehicles / UAVs) for aerial mapping. The company pairs its UAV hardware with an image processing platform that supports professional aerial data capture and analysis. Customers acquire both the manufactured drone and access to mapping/image processing capabilities for their operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• VANTs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) Nationally manufactured VANTs (Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados / UAVs) designed for aerial mapping applications, sold to Brazilian organizations that need UAV-based aerial data capture.
• Aerial Image Processing Platform An image processing platform paired with Horus Aeronaves' VANTs for processing aerial mapping imagery, used by organizations conducting aerial surveying and mapping.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• senseFly: senseFly (now part of AgEagle) designs and manufactures fixed-wing mapping drones with companion image processing software, serving surveying, agriculture, and mining customers globally — a directly comparable business model to Horus's UAV-plus-platform offering.
• Delair: Delair produces fixed-wing and VTOL professional drones for mapping, surveying, and inspection, with integrated data analytics software — closely mirroring Horus's hardware-plus-image-processing platform approach.
• Wingtra: Wingtra manufactures VTOL mapping drones and offers software for aerial data processing in surveying and construction — competing head-to-head with Horus in the same vertical-takeoff mapping drone category.
• Quantum Systems: Quantum Systems builds fixed-wing and VTOL UAVs for mapping, surveying, and defense, with embedded flight planning and data processing — comparable in product mix to Horus.
• Pix4D: Pix4D provides drone-based image processing and photogrammetry software used alongside fixed-wing and multirotor mapping drones — directly comparable to Horus's image-processing platform layer.
• DroneDeploy: DroneDeploy offers a cloud-based drone data platform for mapping, inspection, and analytics across agriculture, construction, and mining — a direct functional peer to Horus's aerial mapping and image processing platform.

Regional players

• Hummingbird Drones: Brazilian drone manufacturer focused on agricultural and industrial applications, serving the same Brazilian market as Horus with comparable UAV products.

Broad incumbents

• DJI: Global market leader in consumer and commercial drones, including mapping-focused platforms such as the Phantom 4 RTK and Mavic 3 Enterprise, plus the DJI Terra processing suite — defining the competitive landscape Horus operates within.
• Parrot: French drone manufacturer with a mapping and inspection line (Anafi series, formerly senseFly) and Pix4D integration — a broader incumbent competing in Horus's core verticals.

Emerging players

• Skydio: US-based autonomous drone company focused on inspection, public safety, and mapping with strong AI-based autonomy — overlapping with Horus in professional drone applications and emerging as a credible competitor in Latin America.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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