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Dronamics opens Japan operations with backing from Asia Air Survey, targeting the country's drone delivery and geospatial mapping market

DRONELIFE · April 21, 2026

Dronamics opens Japan operations with backing from Asia Air Survey, targeting the country's drone delivery and geospatial mapping market

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  • •Dronamics, a Bulgarian cargo-drone maker, established a Japanese subsidiary and secured investment from Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd. (a Tokyo-listed geospatial imaging company founded in 1954), marking Asia Air Survey's first venture-capital bet on a drone cargo startup.
  • •The partnership pairs Dronamics' Black Swan drone—designed to carry packages over long distances—with Asia Air Survey's existing network of clients in Japan's construction, agriculture, and disaster-response sectors, giving Dronamics immediate access to customers who already pay for aerial data collection.
  • •Japanese companies and government agencies working in construction, farming, and emergency response now have a local partner to buy and support cargo drones, instead of importing them from overseas—shortening sales cycles and removing language/regulatory friction that previously made international drone vendors difficult to work with.
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