👯 Founders: Rapolas Markevičius, Simonas Stasevičius, Dominykas Rinkevicius

📅 Founding year: 2022

🏭 Industry: Defense Technology / UAV Precision Guidance Systems

💥 Problem: Around 300,000 drone-deployed munitions are dropped in Ukraine every month, with most being unguided, limiting accuracy and combat effectiveness. NATO allies are rapidly expanding drone capabilities but lack scalable precision guidance solutions.

📣 Solution: PDKINEMATICS develops precision guidance systems for UAVs, including its flagship Gannet system, which enables accurate strikes from up to 700 metres altitude while remaining cost-effective, jam-resistant, and compatible with multiple UAV platforms.

👥 Customers: UAV manufacturers, defense integrators, European armed forces, and NATO-aligned defense organizations.

🌱 Stage: Seed

💰 Investment amount: €2 million seed round

🚀 Funded by: Coinvest Capital and Iron Wolf Capital (co-leads), alongside defense-focused angel investors and experienced technology founders.

👁️‍🗨️ Investor’s perspective: "Precision-guided systems are the future of modern warfare. The PDKINEMATICS team combines entrepreneurial drive with deep engineering talent and moves at the speed this moment demands. They have earned credibility in Ukraine, and we believe it positions them to become a defining defense technology company for NATO allies." — Žygimantas Susnys, Founding Partner of Iron Wolf Capital

💡 It will be spent on: Scaling manufacturing, expanding deployments across Europe and Ukraine, growing NATO market presence, and advancing the R&D pipeline, including proximity fuse and anti-electronic warfare (EW) technologies.

💬 In their own words: "We are rebuilding precision guidance for the platforms that actually dominate today's battlefield, applying modern R&D on top of proven guidance principles and packing them into manufacturable, deployable systems for modern UAV warfare." — Rapolas Markevičius, CEO & Co-Founder

💪 Their specialty: Battle-tested, low-SWaP-C precision guidance systems for UAVs that provide high-altitude accuracy, jam resistance, rapid integration, and cost-efficient deployment.

🔑 Business model: Developing and supplying precision guidance systems and proprietary UAV components to manufacturers, defense integrators, and military organizations, while serving as a technology provider within NATO defense supply chains.

👩‍🏫 Market: European and NATO defense sector, military UAV systems, precision-guided munitions, and drone warfare technologies.

📊 Traction:

  • Strategic partnership with Bavovna.ai, one of Ukraine’s largest bomber-class UAV manufacturers.
  • Systems integrated and deployed in active battlefield conditions in Ukraine.
  • Partnership signed with Italian UAV manufacturer SiraLab.
  • Selected for Iron Wolf 2026, Lithuania’s largest international military exercises.
  • Pilot deployment milestones completed in both Ukraine and NATO environments.

NATO member state naval deployment already in the pipeline.

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