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▶ 13:30 · Critical Minerals & Supply Chain · European drone sovereignty requires local manufacturing to survive AI-driven chip shortages
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Scaling Europe

Orqa builds leading drone hardware in Europe: Srdjan Kovacevic, CEO & Co-Founder of Orqa

2026-08-14 · 2 company · 6 thematic
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srdjan kovacevic

Founder and CEO of Orqa, a Croatian aerial robotics company building European sovereign drone technology stack. Transitioned from hardware engineering services to product company 10 years ago, now scaling to 280k drones/year manufacturing capacity.

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