What we back
Seed-stage companies anywhere in the drone stack, US-based or US-bound, with a product already in a customer's hands.
Platforms & Autonomy
Airframes from FPV-class expendables to long-endurance ISR, and the flight autonomy, GPS-denied navigation, and swarm orchestration that turn an aircraft into a mission.
Components & Supply Chain
Motors, power, communications, sensors, and manufacturing: the trusted, allied-sourced building blocks the industry is short of.
Defense & Counter-UAS
Systems built for the new procurement reality, attritable, mass-produced, and software-defined, for allied defense and base security, plus the counter-UAS layer that has to answer them.
Public Safety & Operations
Drone-as-first-responder, fleet orchestration, and the AI and operations software that turn aircraft into a deployable program for cities and utilities.
Built inside the industry. Bridged to Korea.
We have built inside this industry.
Our founding partner joined Brinc Drones as one of its first three business leaders, alongside the CEO and the head of sales in a company that was otherwise all engineers, and spent more than four years as VP of Strategy & Design working directly with the CEO on vision, strategy, and product as the company grew from early prototypes into a scaled public-safety drone platform. That vantage point covers the whole stack: autonomy and mission software, fleet orchestration, hardware and supply chain, and the US defense market from autonomous mission systems to FPV-class expendables. We know what a drone company looks like from the inside at seed, and what it has to become by Series B.
We are the bridge to Korea.
Korea is one of the most capable allied sources of drone components and manufacturing, and one of the hardest for US founders to reach. We work on both sides. For founders: trusted suppliers, manufacturing partners, and the certification pathways that make them usable in US programs. For Korean industry: direct access to the US drone market, guided by an operator who has bought and integrated these components himself.
How we invest
Deal by deal today. Fund I to follow. Hands on only where we have actually done the work.
One company, one decision.
We invest through special purpose vehicles: one company, one decision, one group of aligned co-investors. Fast for founders, transparent for partners.
Where it counts.
Product and industrial design, autonomy and mission-software strategy, public-safety and defense go-to-market, supplier and manufacturing introductions, and Korea market entry. We do the things we have actually done, and we stay out of the rest.
Fund I to follow.
The SPV track builds a shared record with our partners before a blind-pool fund. Founders get capital now; partners see how we pick before they commit to a fund.
Investment opportunities are available to accredited investors by introduction only.
From the operator's seat
and the investor's.
Our founding partner writes the column The Drone Hegemony War for The Miilk, the Silicon Valley-based subscription outlet that Korea's executives and investors read for US tech, roughly Korea's answer to The Information.
The Miilk · ColumnThe world's strongest military has no drones. A 300,000-drone war factory is opening.
YouTube · Physical AIInside US defense drones: why Iran's one-way attack drones aren't the threat they look like
KOTRA · Op-edThe dawn of the US-Korea AI alliance: a two-way door opens for Korean companies
LinkedInBrinc's $125M round led by Motorola Solutions, and what it says about where public safety tech is going
Get in touch
Building in drones? Send a short note and a deck. We reply to everything in our focus, usually within a week.
Co-investment, strategic partnership, supplier introductions, or press:
info@ovi.vc