FlyFocus, a Poland-based unmanned aerial systems company, has raised €4.5 million in its first institutional funding round. The round was led by ffVC with participation from the NCBR Investment Fund, the venture arm of Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development. The capital will fund a new manufacturing facility in Poland, expand international sales, and support the development of two new drone platforms planned for release later this year.
At a time when countries in Europe (and around the world) are getting concerned about being too dependent on third-party suppliers for critical services and defence, FlyFocus positions itself around supply chain control. Across Europe, currently many drone components are sourced from China. FlyFocus said all of its systems are built using NATO-aligned components and that it maintains full ownership of its software stack.
“Without secure and transparent defence supply chains, there is no real military security. Europe needs industrial capabilities it can rely on in the long term,” CEO and co founder Igor Skawiński told Resilience Media.
He added that the new funding “allows us to scale production in Poland and deliver systems that are designed, built, and supported within Europe, while remaining flexible enough to adapt to rapidly evolving operational requirements.”
Founded in 2017, FlyFocus spent eight years self-funding its growth. During that time, it moved from research and development into full-scale production and secured direct military contracts.
Today, the company employs 35 people and designs and manufactures complete UAV platforms and ground control software in-house. It sources most of its parts from Europe and primarily Poland, although the company plans on moving much of its manufacturing in-house.
“We have subcontractors in order to manufacture composite parts and some other electronics based on our designs, but one of our plans for 2026 is to build our own new facility and bring some of those processes back to FlyFocus to have more control, more flexibility, and bigger capacity,” said Skawiński.
FlyFocus works directly with the Polish Armed Forces and lists both the Polish Ministry of Defence and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence as customers. Its systems have been deployed in Ukraine, where the company says they have been tested under operational conditions.
The product portfolio currently includes Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance platforms, loitering and strike systems, and counter-drone technologies. Their latest drone, Polaris, is a 4.5-kilogram fixed-wing ISR UAV with up to 4.5 hours of flying time, designed for single-operator use. Striker is a longer-range loitering platform with a stated range of more than 1,000 kilometres and a payload capacity of up to 40 kilograms. The company also produces CableGuard, a tethered UAV system for persistent surveillance.
The new manufacturing facility in Poland is expected to be operational in the second half of 2026. The company says the investment will help it scale production capacity while continuing research and development.
