Dropla Tech

Dropla Tech is a Danish-Ukrainian company, founded in 2023 by four Ukrainian entrepreneurs and led by co-founder and chief executive Vyacheslav Shvaidak, that builds edge-AI threat detection for the battlefield. Its Blue Eyes platform processes reconnaissance-drone video on a ruggedised compute node at the tactical edge, detecting and geolocating landmines, unexploded ordnance, IEDs and ambush drones in real time without a cloud connection or a constant link. The company reports detection accuracy around 95 percent at up to 130 frames per second, with sub-15-centimetre precision, covering the zone within about 50 kilometres of the front line; the system is drone-agnostic, installs within a month, and runs offline in GPS- and comms-denied conditions. A second product, Dropla Vision, fuses optical, thermal, magnetometric, multispectral and LiDAR data to find explosive threats, oriented toward humanitarian demining.

That demining mission is enormous: Ukraine is the most heavily mined country in the world, with well over 100,000 square kilometres — roughly a fifth to a quarter of its territory — suspected of contamination, a hazard that will outlast the fighting by decades.

The company is headquartered in Odense, Denmark, with research and development in Ukraine across a team of around 35 people. In August 2025 it raised a €2.4M pre-seed round co-led by Denmark’s Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) and Maj Invest, with the Nordic defence and space fund Final Frontier — backed by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen — also participating. It has built threat-detection training data from a private test range and gained access to real battlefield data through the Brave1 cluster, while Danish Defence supports its path to NATO certification. It sits at the sensing and ISR end of Ukraine’s drone ecosystem, alongside firms such as Farsight Vision .