Strome Business Minute With Dr. Jeff Tanner

DroneUp is a local company founded in 2016 that provides aerial data collection, training, program integration and equipment sales for aerial drones. The company has trained and has available over ten thousand certified drone pilots. They just acquired AeroVista Innovations, a Chicago-area company also founded in 2016 and will rebrand the merged company as The DroneUp Training Academy, a division within DroneUp. AeroVista brings expertise in emergency management and law enforcement, as well as an established training background similar to DroneUp’s, and the employees will come over in the merger. One goal for DroneUp is to be a one-stop shop for drone services for both commercial and government customers, and the company recently announced contracts with the states of Utah and Arizona for drone services. To learn more, visit odu.edu/business. This Strome Business Minute is presented by the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University.