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Draganfly has landed a new investor: Unusual Machines.

What’s happening:

  • Unusual Machines (NYSE: UMAC) is investing $5M USD in Draganfly (NASDAQ: DPRO) in a new $10M USD equity financing round

By the numbers:

  • Draganfly is issuing roughly 1.8M common shares at $5.35 per share as part of the new capital raise

Why it matters:

  • This is the first time that Unusual Machines has made a strategic equity investment in Draganfly

Going deeper:

  • Draganfly has publicly stated that they are seeing a meaningfully acceleration of their drone business for both commercial and defense applications in North America
  • Draganfly had more than $90M USD in total cash as of their last reported quarter
  • Unusual Machines has been making a flurry of investments into other publicly traded drone companies lately, including a $30M USD investment in Powerus and a $20M USD investment in XTEND Robotics AI (NYSE: XTND)