AeroMotors

AeroMotors is a Ukrainian manufacturer of electric motors for drones, founded in 2023 and based in Lviv. Its range spans roughly 7 to 32 inches, covering everything from small FPV quadcopters to heavier reconnaissance and fixed-wing platforms. The company is led by chief executive and co-founder Andrii Tyndyk, with Yevheniia Kliuieva as co-founder and chief operating officer.

What sets AeroMotors apart is that it produces its motors entirely in-house in Ukraine, running the full cycle from metal processing and winding through assembly and testing rather than assembling imported parts. That vertical integration lets it customise brushless motors to a customer’s airframe and tune them for the demands of front-line use, where a failed motor can down a drone over enemy territory. It is the kind of unglamorous component work — motors, not airframes — that Ukraine’s war economy has had to build almost from scratch.

In December 2025 the company raised $550,000 from Swedish investment firm Front Ventures, which took a 5.5 percent stake at a $10 million valuation; AeroMotors had earlier secured backing from MITS Capital. It said the round would buy new equipment to scale output from around 10,000 motors a month toward as many as 60,000, and that the Swedish investor would also help it stand up production lines in Europe.

The push is part of a broader Ukrainian effort to reduce dependence on Chinese-made drone components — a priority for the country’s defence-technology ecosystem, including the state cluster Brave1 — by building a domestic supply of critical parts such as motors. AeroMotors is one of several local players in that race, alongside larger engine houses, but stands out for keeping the entire manufacturing chain on Ukrainian soil.