Roads for cars. Cell towers for phones. NEST® for drones.

The missing layer.

Autonomous aerial nodes coordinated as one distributed infrastructure, remotely managed, continuously operational, deployable on existing structures without modifying the environments where it runs.

Patent protected across 12 jurisdictions Made in Italy Deployed across Europe & Asia
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The Infrastructure

Everybody looked at the drone. Nobody looked up.

Pillar 01

Coordinated as one

Multiple NEST® nodes coordinate as a single distributed system. Drones hand off between nodes in real time, extending operational range far beyond the limits of any single deployment. No operator input.

Pillar 02

Continuously operational

24/7 autonomous operations. Nodes recharge and redeploy without human intervention on site.

Pillar 03

Deploy at altitude

Installs on existing poles, walls, towers and lampposts. No civil works. No ground footprint.

Where the layer becomes critical

Infrastructure that adapts.
Whatever the environment.

Urban / Smart City

Districts demand continuous aerial coverage. Single deployments can't scale across an entire city.

Oil & Gas / Energy

Assets distributed across hazardous environments where pilots cannot safely operate.

Ports & Maritime

Vast perimeters. Extreme conditions. Human patrol not scalable.

Logistics & Industrial

Inventory cycles are still manual.
Safety compliance hard to enforce at scale.

The Moat

Permanent. Certified. European.

01
Built to grow

No competitor was designed for this

Elevated on existing poles, towers and pylons, no ground footprint, no civil works. Nodes interconnected as one persistent territorial network, continuously operational across any geography. New NEST® nodes join and extend the network dynamically, no redesign, no disruption. Lightweight and modular, fast to deploy, fast to scale.

Elevated · modular · ground-free
02
Certified

Where no competitor can operate

The first system in the world with ATEX Zone certification for autonomous operations in explosive atmospheres. And the only one in the world to receive an EASA Design Verification Report for harmlessness in BVLOS operations over populated areas. Two independent certifications, each achieved in a different operational configuration.

ATEX Zone · EASA DVR
03
European

Supply chain integrity for critical infrastructure

100% designed and assembled in Italy, ensuring data sovereignty and supply chain integrity for public sector and critical infrastructure deployments across Europe and beyond.

100% Made in Italy
Capital Partners

Who already trusts in our system.

Lead
Series A Q1 2026
Co-investor
Series A Q1 2026
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Funding Roadmap
2018
Founded
2021
Seed · €5M
Q1 2026
Series A · €15M
Founder & CEO
Marco Ballerini
Aerospace engineer with over two decades at Northrop Grumman and Selex ES. Founder of the first unmanned systems company he built and sold. In 2018, he founded Dronus in Italy to build the infrastructure nobody else had seen.
Milestones

Already operational in Asia.

NEST® deployed with HTX, Singapore's most demanding institutional drone operator, for urban security and smart city operations. Proving that the infrastructure works in one of Asia's most complex urban environments.

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For Investors

The next chapter starts now.

The technology is proven. The infrastructure is operational. Scaling it requires the right partners. For investment conversations, reach out.

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For Operators

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We'll show you how NEST® works and what it can do for your operations.

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