ZenaTech

ZenaTech: AI Drones, Enterprise SaaS, and a Growing Drone-as-a-Service Network

ZenaTech is a publicly traded technology company (Nasdaq: ZENA) that builds AI-powered drones and enterprise SaaS software, and is assembling a national Drone as a Service (DaaS) business through acquisitions. The company was founded in 2017 by Dr. Shaun Passley, who serves as Chairman, President, and CEO, and who also founded enterprise software company Epazz and manufacturing firm Ameritek Ventures (MarketScreener; citybiz, 2026). ZenaTech began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market on October 1, 2024 (GlobeNewswire, September 2024). The company is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with additional offices across North America, Europe, Taiwan, and the UAE, and established a dedicated DaaS business headquarters in Orlando, Florida in October 2025 (ZenaTech, October 2025). By January 2026, the company said it had completed 20 acquisitions in its first year of building out the DaaS business (ZenaTech, January 2026). In June 2026, ZenaTech was added to the Russell 3000 and retained its place in the Russell Microcap Index (Shaun Passley, LinkedIn, June 2026).

What ZenaTech does

ZenaTech operates across three areas: AI drone hardware and software through its ZenaDrone subsidiary, a growing Drone as a Service business built by acquiring legacy field-service companies, and enterprise SaaS solutions for compliance, safety, field service, and records management. Drone applications span agriculture, defense, land survey, logistics, and infrastructure inspection, with services like land surveying, power washing, and wildfire management support delivered on a subscription basis through the DaaS network (ZenaTech, 2026). The company says its software-first background differentiates it from competitors that came from hardware and later added AI or software capability (citybiz, 2026).

Where it fits

ZenaTech serves business, government, and defense customers, with enterprise software already in use across law enforcement, government, and industrial sectors (ZenaTech, 2026). It's a fit for organizations, particularly in government, utilities, agriculture, and infrastructure, that need recurring drone-based inspection, monitoring, or survey services without building an in-house drone program, as well as enterprises looking for compliance and field-service software.

Why this matters for people leaders

ZenaTech's growth by acquisition, 20 deals in its first year of the DaaS business alone, means a steady stream of companies and their employees being absorbed into a larger organization. For people leaders, that pace of M&A activity is itself a workforce and culture story: integrating acquired teams quickly and well, without losing the people or institutional knowledge that made those companies valuable in the first place, is one of the harder problems in Culture, Performance, and Retention, and it's worth watching how fast-scaling acquirers like ZenaTech handle it.

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