{"city":"San Francisco","name":"DoorDash Air","slug":"doordash-air","facts":[{"date":"2026-07-30","type":"revenue_band","value":"10-100m est (division; group revenue much larger)","source":"The Robot Report"},{"date":"2026-07-30","type":"ownership_change","value":"Controlled by DoorDash","source":"The Robot Report"},{"date":"2026-07-30","type":"product_launch","value":"In-house drone program","source":"The Robot Report"},{"date":"2026-07-01","type":"deployment","value":"First-party drone deliveries planned for fall 2026","source":"about.doordash.com"},{"date":"2026-07-01","type":"product_launch","value":"In-house DoorDash Air program","source":"about.doordash.com"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"partnership","value":"DoorDash and Wing add Atlanta to their drone partnership","source":"aviationweek.com"}],"peers":[],"stage":null,"state":"California","aliases":[],"country":"United States","domains":[{"why":"DoorDash Air runs autonomous drone-delivery services for customers, through partnerships with Flytrex and Wing and planned first-party deployments.","list":"Robotics 100","rank":100,"tier":"member","layer":"Operators & services","total":62,"domain":"Robotics","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":4,"technology":4},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"Air"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-07-31","header":"DoorDash received FAA Part 135 certification and launched DoorDash Air.","outlet":"The AI Insider"},{"date":"2026-07-31","header":"DoorDash Labs is developing a U.S.-built drone delivery stack for DoorDash Air.","outlet":"The AI Insider"},{"date":"2026-07-31","header":"DoorDash identified three-to-five-mile orders as a target for drone delivery economics.","outlet":"The AI Insider"},{"date":"2026-07-31","header":"DoorDash is integrating drone delivery with its existing commerce and merchant network.","outlet":"The AI Insider"},{"date":"2026-07-29","header":"DoorDash launched DoorDash Air after receiving FAA certification for commercial drone delivery.","outlet":"TechCrunch"}],"website":"doordash.com","category":"Robotics · Operators & services","categories":[{"name":"Air","domain":"Robotics","parent":"Robotics · Operators & services"},{"name":"Unspecified","domain":"Unspecified","parent":null}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:19:45.871+00:00","facts_total":14,"positioning":"DoorDash Air is the in-house drone-delivery program of DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH), developed by its DoorDash Labs robotics/autonomy unit, which earned FAA Part 135 air-carrier certification on Jul-29-26 — making DoorDash the eighth US-certified drone operator. It intends to build its own purpose-built mid-range aircraft plus ground infrastructure (loading, handoff, inventory, routing) and route orders via its Autonomous Delivery Platform, while continuing partner drone operations with Wing, Flytrex and Manna. First-party in-house drone deliveries are planned for fall 2026; aircraft range, payload and design remain undisclosed, so demonstrated in-house flight capability is still unproven — actual flying to date is partner-operated.","sub_category":null,"signals_total":5,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/doordash-air","title":"DoorDash Air · robotics, San Francisco, California, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"DoorDash Air runs autonomous drone-delivery services for customers, through partnerships with Flytrex and Wing and planned first-party deployments. Robotics 100 rank 100 (score 62) 5 signals and 14 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}