ZenaTech Announces the Acquisition of Lescure Engineers Inc. Expanding Drone as a Service (DaaS) to California's Precision Agriculture and Viticulture Markets
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZenaTech, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV:ZENA) ("ZenaTech"), a business technology solution provider specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drones, Drone as a Service (DaaS), Enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions announces acquisition of Lescure Engineers Inc., an established Santa Rosa, California-based civil engineering and land surveying firm. The acquisition will close by September 12th and will mark ZenaTech's first Northern California DaaS acquisition, establishing a strategic foothold in one of the nation's most dynamic precision agriculture, viticulture, and commercial land development markets.
"California's massive agricultural economy, diverse crops, and labor and water challenges, make it a prime market for ZenaTech's AI-powered DaaS solutions," said Shaun Passley, Ph.D., ZenaTech CEO. "By combining Lescure Engineers' decades of trusted expertise with our AI-powered drone platform, we can bring greater precision, sustainability, and scale to California's agriculture and viticulture sectors in a way that can transform the landscape of farming."
Founded in 1979, Lescure Engineers provides full-service civil engineering, land surveying, and development planning solutions, with expertise spanning water and wastewater systems, utility and drainage planning, grading, erosion control, commercial and winery permit applications, construction and subdivisions. Sustainability is central to Lescure Engineers' approach, integrating long-term environmental and water management considerations into every project.
California, home to nearly 90% of US vineyard acreage, is a high-growth market for drone-enabled precision agriculture. ZenaTech's DaaS platform enables vineyard and farming customers to deploy autonomous AI drones for aerial imaging, precision spraying, irrigation analytics, and wildfire monitoring, without the need to purchase hardware, hire pilots, or manage regulatory approvals.
This will be the ninth US acquisition toward ZenaTech's goal of acquiring and establishing 25 Drone-as-a-Service locations by mid-next year. The company's DaaS model provides flexible, on-demand subscription or pay-per-use access to drone services for surveying, inspections, automation, and more, eliminating the need to invest in drone hardware and software, pilots, maintenance, or regulatory compliance. The company is acquiring land surveying and other businesses ripe for drone innovation, to advance its national vision for a scalable, tech-enabled multiservice drone business anchored by existing customers and recurring revenue.
About ZenaTech
ZenaTech (NASDAQ:ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV:ZENA) is a technology solutions company specializing in AI drone, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS and Quantum Computing for mission-critical business and government applications. Since 2017, the Company has leveraged its software development expertise and grown its drone design and manufacturing capabilities through ZenaDrone, to innovate and improve customer inspection, monitoring, safety, security, compliance, and surveying processes. With enterprise software customers using branded solutions in law enforcement, health, government, and industrial sectors, and drones being implemented in these plus agriculture, defense, and logistics sectors, ZenaTech's portfolio of solutions helps drive exceptional operational efficiencies, precision, and cost savings. The Company operates through global offices in North America, Europe, Taiwan, and UAE, and is growing its US DaaS business and network of locations through acquisitions.
About ZenaDrone
ZenaDrone, a wholly owned subsidiary of ZenaTech, develops and manufactures autonomous business drone solutions that can incorporate machine learning software, AI, predictive modeling, Quantum Computing, and other software and hardware innovations. Created to revolutionize the hemp farming sector, its specialization has grown to multifunctional drone solutions for industrial surveillance, monitoring, inspection, tracking, process automation, and defense applications. Currently, the ZenaDrone 1000 drone is used for crop management applications in agriculture and critical field cargo applications in the defense sector, the IQ Nano indoor drone is used for inventory management and security in the warehouse and logistics sectors, and the IQ Square is an outdoor drone designed for land surveys and inspections use in commercial and defense sectors.
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