MITS Capital, an American-Ukrainian investment group, has invested in Dropla Tech, a Danish-Ukrainian defense technology company whose AI system has confirmed more than 5,000 explosive-threat detections in Ukraine.
The deal size and the company’s valuation were not disclosed.
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Dropla Tech avows its accuracy reaches above 90%, the company wrote in a press release to the media on July 9.
As of July 2026, MITS Capital’s portfolio includes 20 companies, the majority of which are Ukraine-born miltech with successes on the front line – now they have added another startup to their portfolio.
Dropla Tech was founded by four Ukrainians in 2023 and is headquartered in Odense, Denmark, with engineering and operations in Ukraine. The startup develops edge-AI systems that detect small-sized explosive threats and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) that respond to them.
With MITS Capital investments, Dropla Tech’s plans to scale its production capacity and deepen integration between Ukraine’s and Europe’s defense tech ecosystems. MITS Capital also aims to strengthen Danish-Ukrainian defense-industrial cooperation after it launched its new defense technology company, MITS Industries, in Denmark.
“We were not looking for capital. We were looking for infrastructure,” Viacheslav Shvaidak, co-founder and CEO of Dropla Tech is quoted in the press release.
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Dropla Tech joined the MITS Acceleration Program, which focuses on operational scaling, NATO market entry, and access to expertise across the MITS Capital platform. It has become one of the eight companies in MITS Accelerator’s Batch 3 and the first participant from the cohort to be publicly disclosed.
“We look forward to working with Dropla Tech’s team as a key pillar of MITS Capital’s mission: to defeat Russia in Ukraine and integrate Ukraine into Europe’s defense architecture,” the press release quoted Perry Boyle, co-founder and CEO of MITS Capital.
The company’s flagship product, Blue Eyes Warbox, is an edge-AI system that detects and identifies explosive threats – mines, IEDs, and, most importantly, ambush drones – protecting military personnel. It operates in real time on aerial sensor feeds, directly at the tactical edge, and without cloud connectivity. The system will also be used for humanitarian demining in the future.
Blue Eyes is codified in the NATO Stock System under NATO Stock Number 7010-61-019-5238, assigned by Ukraine’s National Codification Bureau. This makes the system procurable by NATO members through standard channels. Blue Eyes is currently deployed with Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) units and several Ukrainian security services.
In parallel, the company has created two modular UGV platforms: Dropla 4×4 and Dropla 6×6. The platforms support CASEVAC (casualty evacuation), logistics, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), RWS (remote weapons stations), and counter-UAS (unmanned aerial systems) configurations. Both products were initially created to operate with the Blue Eyes system and are designed for European series production.
Dropla Tech’s third product is Dropla Seer, a mobile, multi-sensor reconnaissance complex that combines aerial and ground sensors with Blue Eyes AI processing for postwar humanitarian mine action.
In August 2025, Dropla Tech secured €2.4 million ($2.7 million) from Maj Invest, the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), Final Frontier, and other investors to accelerate its edge-AI capabilities. In less than a year, the company increased the number of confirmed explosive-threat detections in Ukraine from several hundred to more than 5,000, with accuracy above 90%.
Dropla Tech’s systems are designed to plug into larger unmanned ecosystems, creating opportunities to expand its network of strategic partnerships with Ukrainian and European defense technology players.
In July 2026, the company announced that it had started integrating its UGVs into MOSAIC UXS, the AI-powered mission software developed by Germany’s Quantum Systems. Earlier, at Eurosatory 2026, Dropla Tech signed a memorandum of cooperation with Frontline Robotics, a Ukrainian developer of robotic systems.
Dropla Tech’s next major ambition is to participate in the Build with Ukraine program while scaling production capacity to up to 3,000 UGVs per year, according to Shvaidak.
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