Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Drone Express, Inc.
Drone Express, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is active on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Drone Express, Inc. operates in Robotics, based in DAYTON.
Sub-sector tags: robotics.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Drone Express, Inc. has raised $10M in disclosed capital across 5 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Seed (a $1.0M–$4.0M round).
Largest single filing: $3.9M on 2023-08-01.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2025-04-29.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Drone Express, Inc. at approximately $8.0M (range $2.1M–$17M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 0.98× the median modeled value of Seed Robotics companies in 2025–2027 (7 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (98% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 7 months.
Last raise 14 mo ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 14 months.
Raising on or ahead of the sector's normal rhythm.
The last round was 3.1× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 73% of Robotics peers (327 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 51% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: Revise Robotics, Inc., Luminous Robotics, Inc., Bubble Robotics, Inc., Keda Robotics, Inc., Strydent Autonomous Technologies, Inc..
Peoplefiled
7 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.