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Drone Nerds Turned a Drone Store Into a $100 Million Enterprise Lifeline
The Florida retailer discovered that the valuable part of a drone is not the box - it is everything required to keep a fleet useful, compliant and in the air. Now that service machine must navigate the American market's retreat from Chinese hardware.
Kite Aero
Kite Aero is an Australian uncrewed-aviation company building a globally deployed drone logistics platform. It pairs the long-range Kite aircraft with AXIOM, a cloud-based flight operating system and digital twin that lets a single pilot supervise up to 30 aircraft. Formed after acquiring the assets of medical-delivery pioneer Swoop Aero in 2025, Kite Aero operates a drone transport network with more than 40,000 autonomous flights and 20,000 flight hours across humanitarian and commercial supply chains, and is opening its AI platform to drone manufacturers, logistics providers, governments and enterprises with last-mile delivery needs.