{"id":1039273,"date":"2026-09-29T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039273"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:53:27","slug":"trump-jr-backed-unusual-machines-us-asset-manager-invest-10-million-in-canadas-draganfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/trump-jr-backed-unusual-machines-us-asset-manager-invest-10-million-in-canadas-draganfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Jr.-backed Unusual Machines, US asset manager invest $10 million in Canada&#8217;s Draganfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr.-backed Unusual Machines and an unnamed US asset management company have invested $10 million in Canadian drone services firm Draganfly, as defense sector investments gather pace amid persistent geopolitical tensions. <\/p>\n<p>Draganfly said on Monday it would use the proceeds to accelerate the development of advanced strategic capabilities and to fund general working capital needs. Reuters was the first to report the investment. <\/p>\n<p>Draganfly&#8217;s New York-listed shares were up 5.2% in pre-market trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump Jr.-backed Unusual Machines and an unnamed US asset management company have invested $10 million in Canadian drone services firm Draganfly, as defense sector investments gather pace amid persistent geopolitical tensions. Draganfly said on Monday it would use the proceeds to accelerate the development of advanced strategic capabilities and to fund general working capital needs. Reuters was the first to report the investment. Draganfly&#8217;s New York-listed shares were up 5.2% in pre-market trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039294,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039273\/revisions\/1039294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}