Airware

Airware was an enterprise commercial-drone (UAV) software and aerial-data-analytics company founded in 2011 by Jonathan Downey and headquartered in San Francisco. It began by building an operating system and autopilot for commercial drones, then pivoted to a cloud-based "Aerial Information Platform" that captured, processed, and analyzed drone imagery for enterprise verticals such as mining, quarrying, insurance, and construction. Airware acquired French drone-analytics firm Redbird in 2016 and raised roughly $118M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google Ventures), Intel Capital, and Next World Capital. The company ceased operations in September 2018. It was surfaced as an a16z portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a lead; no live developer surface, API, or public specification is currently discoverable (the airware.com domain no longer resolves), so this profile is retained as a historical/defunct record.

Airware is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Drones, UAV, Aerial Analytics, and Enterprise Software.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyDronesUAVAerial AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareData AnalyticsDefunct

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Airware
description: Airware was an enterprise commercial-drone (UAV) software and aerial-data-analytics company founded in 2011 by
  Jonathan Downey and headquartered in San Francisco. It began by building an operating system and autopilot for commercial
  drones, then pivoted to a cloud-based "Aerial Information Platform" that captured, processed, and analyzed drone imagery
  for enterprise verticals such as mining, quarrying, insurance, and construction. Airware acquired French drone-analytics
  firm Redbird in 2016 and raised roughly $118M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google
  Ventures), Intel Capital, and Next World Capital. The company ceased operations in September 2018. It was surfaced as an
  a16z portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network as a lead; no live developer surface, API, or public specification
  is currently discoverable (the airware.com domain no longer resolves), so this profile is retained as a historical/defunct
  record.
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Drones
- UAV
- Aerial Analytics
- Enterprise Software
- Data Analytics
- Defunct
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence