Forbes: The founders of DroneUA initially dreamed of manufacturing drones. However, they soon realised that while equipment can be sold only once, services can be delivered and scaled indefinitely

January 20, 2026
Forbes: Засновники DroneUA мріяли виготовляти дрони. Але зрозуміли, що техніку можна продавати один раз, а послуги – нескінченно
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DroneUA is an international system integrator of unmanned solutions, ranked among the top three most innovative businesses in Ukraine’s agricultural sector by Forbes and among the top 20 most innovative companies in Ukraine.

The company was founded by Fevzi Ametov and Valerii Iakovenko. In the summer of 2013, the partners began developing their own drones for agricultural use and later moved on to integrating international solutions, reshaping the Ukrainian service market.

After 2018, DroneUA significantly expanded its scope of activities. In addition to agricultural projects, the company’s portfolio grew to include solutions for geodesy, topography, and the extractive industry, followed by technologies for the energy and security sectors.

«Our goal is to optimise companies’ business processes and free them from routine tasks. We are not in the drone business. Our business is robotics», — said Valerii Iakovenko, Co-founder of DroneUA.

Read more about the history of DroneUA’s creation and development in Ukraine at: https://forbes.ua/ru/innovations/bez-igrashok-11022021-990

DroneUA thanks Forbes for promoting Ukrainian business.

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DroneUA is an international system integrator of unmanned solutions and robotics.

On the market of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, the DroneUA group of companies is the largest importer and distributor of leading drone manufacturers in the world and represents technological solutions from the brands XAG, EcoFlow, Pix4D, Parrot, Chasing, DroneDeploy, AgroCares and others.

The group of companies has its own engineering, production and service divisions, as well as an open data processing center. Technological solutions presented by DroneUA are used on more than 4 million hectares of cultivated areas of Ukraine. According to the results of the 2021 and 2022 agricultural seasons, more than 2.2 million hectares were protected with drone sprayers from DroneUA.

DroneUA is among the top three most innovative businesses in the agricultural sector of Ukraine according to FORBES and among the twenty most innovative enterprises of Ukraine.

The group of companies continues to expand the list of technological brands that it presents on the Ukrainian market, and is active in agriculture, the oil and gas industry, as well as in the fields of energy, geodesy and topography.

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