Sky Senderos, LLC.

What Sky Senderos, LLC. does

Sky Senderos, LLC. is an Austin, Texas-based drone services company founded in January 2023 by Ethan Salinsky. The company specializes in thermal aerial wildlife surveys of ranchland and rural properties, primarily serving individual landowners, ranchers, and wildlife managers across Texas. With a network of 30 pilots and more than 900 completed surveys covering over 1.45 million acres, the company self-describes as the largest provider of drone-based wildlife surveys in the state. Operations are based in Austin with field work conducted across Texas and, increasingly, in adjacent states.

The company's core product is a thermal drone survey in which infrared-equipped drones fly programmed routes over a property to capture wildlife activity and habitat data. Sky Senderos has built proprietary technology supporting this service, including an in-house AI computer vision model trained on hundreds of hours of accumulated footage that performs anomaly detection and assists human reviewers, as well as custom flight planning software used to coordinate its pilot network. The company holds FAA Part 107 certification for commercial drone operations, FAA Part 137 certification for aerial application, and a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Aerial Wildlife Management Permit that together cover both survey and spreading activities.

Sky Senderos generates revenue primarily through one-time, project-based survey fees priced at approximately $1 per acre on typical 1,000-acre properties, with optional add-ons including visible-camera imagery, game map deliverables, and highlight videos. The company has extended its offering through an Aerial Spreading division providing seeding and pond sealing services. Customers are acquired on a project basis rather than through recurring contracts, and revenue is distributed across a long tail of individual landowners, indicating a low-concentration, volume-driven commercial model rather than an enterprise-anchor model.

Name

Sky Senderos, LLC.

Legal name

Sky Senderos, LLC.

Website

https://skysenderos.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sky Senderos, LLC. is an Austin-based drone survey company using thermal imaging and an AI-assisted computer vision model to map wildlife on ranches, serving individual landowners and wildlife managers across Texas with optional aerial spreading services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aerial wildlife surveying and ranch drone services

NAICS

Support Activities for Animal Production (115210)

akta.pro primary industry

Aerial Surveying & Crop Scouting (Imaging, Mapping, Stand Counts) (AFACAIAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Aerial Seeding & Cover Crop Broadcasting (AFACAIAC)

Keywords

• Thermal drone surveys
• Wildlife census counts
• Aerial wildlife management
• Ranch land surveying
• Drone game counts

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Thermal Drone Wildlife Surveys: One-time survey fees for thermal drone wildlife census counts. Base offering includes thermal game count with full property coverage. Add-on services include visible camera, game map, and highlight video. Pricing varies by property size, services requested, and location.
2. Aerial Spreading Services: Drone-based aerial seeding and pond sealing services for Texas properties, covering applications such as cover crops, native grasses, food plots, and polymer-based pond sealant.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Sky Senderos provides thermal drone wildlife surveys (Thermal Game Counts) for Texas landowners, deploying FAA Part 107 and TPWD-permitted pilots to customer properties to fly GPS-guided routes with thermal and visible-light cameras for accurate deer and wildlife population counts. Optional add-on modules include a Visible Camera for species identification, an interactive Game Map for GPS-pinned animal locations, and a Highlight Video reel. The company also operates an Aerial Spreading division offering drone-based seed spreading and polymer pond sealant application services.

Product overview

Sky Senderos offers a core thermal drone wildlife survey service (Thermal Game Count) with three optional add-on modules: Visible Camera for enhanced species identification, Game Map for interactive animal location tracking, and Highlight Video for curated footage reels. The company also operates a separate Aerial Spreading division offering drone-based seed spreading and pond sealing services. All wildlife survey services are designed for Texas landowners to conduct TPWD-approved census counts for wildlife management, property tax exemptions, and hunting program compliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sky Senderos Aerial Spreading: Drone aerial spreading services for pond sealing and seeding operations across Texas.

Products and services

• Thermal Game Count Base thermal drone wildlife survey service using advanced thermal imaging on drones flown at night or early morning to detect animals through thick brush, delivering an accurate wildlife population census with full property coverage. Targeted at Texas landowners needing wildlife counts for ranch management, MLDP compliance, and 1-D-1 wildlife exemption qualification.
• Visible Camera Add-On Add-on service pairing a 56x optical zoom visible-light camera with the thermal camera to provide detailed species identification and antler quality assessment. Targeted at landowners who need confident species and gender breakdown of counted animals.
• Game Map Add-On Add-on service that produces an interactive online map pinning each animal's GPS location, viewable by species, age, gender, or survey date, enabling tracking of wildlife distribution and movement across properties over time. Targeted at landowners tracking herd distribution and movement patterns across multiple survey years.
• Highlight Video Add-On Add-on service producing an edited 5–10 minute highlight reel compiled from raw thermal drone footage to showcase trophy bucks, rare exotics, and notable wildlife sightings. Targeted at landowners wanting shareable video content of their property's wildlife.
• Aerial Seed Spreading Drone-based aerial seeding service using GPS-verified coverage to plant cover crops, native grasses, and food plots across challenging terrain including steep slopes, wet ground, and remote acreage. Targeted at Texas landowners needing habitat improvement or food plot establishment.
• Aerial Pond Sealing Polymer-based pond sealant application service using calibrated drones that achieve even distribution without draining water, suitable for new and leaking tanks and ponds. Targeted at Texas landowners needing pond and tank leak remediation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60-90% population identification accuracy vs 30-70% for helicopter surveys (per TPWD data)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• PrecisionHawk: Drone-based surveying and analytics provider serving agriculture, energy, and government markets. Comparable in that both use drone aerial imaging and analytics for land management decisions, though PrecisionHawk operates across broader industries versus Sky Senderos' wildlife-focused niche.
• Sentera: Drone-mounted sensor and analytics company serving agriculture with field crop intelligence. Comparable for drone-based aerial imaging and computer vision analytics applied to land/agriculture management use cases.
• DJI Agriculture: Drone manufacturer serving agricultural aerial application and surveying markets globally. Comparable as the underlying drone platform provider for many agricultural and land surveying drone operators, including potential Sky Senderos suppliers.
• Pix4D: Drone photogrammetry and mapping software for surveying and agriculture applications. Comparable in converting drone aerial imagery into structured geospatial outputs and reports for land management decisions.
• DroneDeploy: Drone mapping and analytics software platform used across construction, agriculture, and surveying. Comparable in providing aerial imaging-to-insight workflows that could be applied to wildlife and land management scenarios.

Others

• onX Maps: Mapping and property intelligence platform for hunters and landowners. Comparable as an adjacent technology used by the same customer segment (ranch/hunting landowners) for land and wildlife management, though onX provides mapping rather than wildlife census services.
• HuntStand: Hunting and land management planning platform used by hunters and landowners. Comparable as ecosystem participant serving the same ranch/hunting landowner customer base with adjacent wildlife management and property planning tools.

Regional players

• Helicopter wildlife survey operators (Texas regional): Traditional helicopter-based wildlife census providers operating in Texas and adjacent states. Comparable as direct competitors offering the same wildlife population counting service, but using a more expensive, less accurate legacy method that Sky Senderos has displaced in customer testimonials.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/skysenderos

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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