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<ul><li>Sacra estimates that Destinus generated approximately $70M in revenue in 2024, up 280% from $18M in 2023.</li><li>The earliest disclosed round was a seed of CHF 26.8 million (approximately $29 million) in February 2022, led by Conny & Co., Quiet Capital, One Way Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Cathexis Ventures, and ACE & Company.</li><li>Destinus is building autonomous unmanned aircraft systems for defense and dual-use applications, with a longer-term roadmap for hypersonic cargo and passenger transport using liquid hydrogen as fuel.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates that Destinus generated approximately $70M in revenue in 2024, up 280% from $18M in 2023.The earliest disclosed round was a seed of CHF 26.8 million (approximately $29 million) in February 2022, led by Conny & Co., Quiet Capital, One Way Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Cathexis Ventures, and ACE & Company.Destinus is building autonomous unmanned aircraft systems for defense and dual-use applications, with a longer-term roadmap for hypersonic cargo and passenger transport using liquid hydrogen as fuel.

<ul><li>As drones dominate the Russo-Ukrainian War (responsible for 70% of casualties on both sides), former Eastern Bloc countries have coalesced to counter Russian aggression.</li><li>Mass-scale drone warfare has given rise to counter-drone electronic warfare where GPS denial bubbles hundreds of kilometers wide cause commercial drones to drift uncontrollably and crash.</li><li>Sacra estimates that KrattWorks generated $22m in revenue in 2025, up 2,953% year-over-year from $730K in 2024, selling drones both domestically to Estonia and to Ukraine.</li></ul>

As drones dominate the Russo-Ukrainian War (responsible for 70% of casualties on both sides), former Eastern Bloc countries have coalesced to counter Russian aggression.Mass-scale drone warfare has given rise to counter-drone electronic warfare where GPS denial bubbles hundreds of kilometers wide cause commercial drones to drift uncontrollably and crash.Sacra estimates that KrattWorks generated $22m in revenue in 2025, up 2,953% year-over-year from $730K in 2024, selling drones both domestically to Estonia and to Ukraine.

<ul><li>As drones dominate the Russo-Ukrainian War (responsible for 70% of casualties on both sides) and conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Myanmar, the former Eastern Bloc is emerging as NATO’s Shenzhen for drones.</li><li>33% of all FPV drones on the front lines in Ukraine come from TAF Drones, Ukraine’s largest native manufacturer, which did a Sacra-estimated $180M in revenue in 2024, up 2,250% YoY.</li><li>With thousands of combat hours flown, battle-tested Eastern Bloc drone companies have gone from supplying drones to the front lines in Ukraine to exporting them around the West, flipping ex-Soviet factories into the West’s permanent arsenal rather than a wartime stopgap—a trend that will accelerate as Kyiv plans to relax export bans later in 2025 to promote the growth of their domestic miltech industry.</li></ul>

As drones dominate the Russo-Ukrainian War (responsible for 70% of casualties on both sides) and conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Myanmar, the former Eastern Bloc is emerging as NATO’s Shenzhen for drones.33% of all FPV drones on the front lines in Ukraine come from TAF Drones, Ukraine’s largest native manufacturer, which did a Sacra-estimated $180M in revenue in 2024, up 2,250% YoY.With thousands of combat hours flown, battle-tested Eastern Bloc drone companies have gone from supplying drones to the front lines in Ukraine to exporting them around the West, flipping ex-Soviet factories into the West’s permanent arsenal rather than a wartime stopgap—a trend that will accelerate as Kyiv plans to relax export bans later in 2025 to promote the growth of their domestic miltech industry.

<ul><li>Destinus generated $70M in revenue in 2024, up 289% year-over-year from $18M in 2023.</li><li>Destinus (founded in Switzerland in 2021) is a frontier tech company whose stated goal is to build the first hydrogen-powered hypersonic aircraft.</li><li>The EU’s reindustrialization push will send contracts both to homegrown players like Destinus ($29M seed raised, Quiet Capital).</li></ul>

Destinus generated $70M in revenue in 2024, up 289% year-over-year from $18M in 2023.Destinus (founded in Switzerland in 2021) is a frontier tech company whose stated goal is to build the first hydrogen-powered hypersonic aircraft.The EU’s reindustrialization push will send contracts both to homegrown players like Destinus ($29M seed raised, Quiet Capital).

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Hypersonic aircraft manufacturer developing high-speed cargo and passenger transportation

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Destinus (DESTINUS CH)

Primer: Destinus - 25 May 2026

Hypersonic aircraft manufacturer developing high-speed cargo and passenger transportation

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