DERTEANO GROUP · LIMA, PERÚ · EST. 1824
Built by the family that invented Peruvian aerospace.
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01 / EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Derteano AI Industries is developing Peru's first commercial and defense-grade drone manufacturing facility. Operating from Lima with LATAM-wide deployment, DAI targets government procurement, critical infrastructure, precision agriculture, and defense operations across a region currently dominated by Chilean, Israeli, and Chinese suppliers.
Chile began building its sovereign drone capability a decade ago through ENAER, the Chilean Air Force, and INACAP's aerospace programs. Peru has no equivalent. DAI is the answer — and the family behind it has been answering Peru's defense crises for 200 years.
02 / THE OPPORTUNITY
Chile has operated a national drone program for over a decade. Peru — with a larger territory, more complex geography, greater natural resource wealth, and a longer Pacific coastline — has no comparable capability. This is not a missed opportunity. It is a strategic emergency. DAI exists to close it.
Peru's acquisition of F-16 Block 70/72 fighters from the United States carries mandatory industrial offset requirements under the Foreign Military Sale framework. Qualified domestic aerospace manufacturers are positioned to absorb a portion of this offset — creating a direct, government-sanctioned procurement pathway that requires no cold outreach.
Lima is the natural aerospace hub for South America. Equidistant between Bogotá and Santiago. Direct Pacific access. Altitude testing available in the Andes at 5,200m. Port Chancay — now operational — provides logistics infrastructure to Asia. No other LATAM capital offers this combination for an aerospace manufacturing platform.
03 / FOUNDATION · 1824 → 2026
This company did not begin in 2026. It began when a Peruvian banker refused to pay tribute to an invading army.
1824
LIMA, PERÚ
Congressman, financier, and patriot. Founded the Banco Nacional del Perú and managed the Dreyfus Contract — Peru's largest financial instrument of the 19th century. When Chilean forces invaded Lima in 1880, Dionisio Derteano organized the national defense, financed resistance operations, and lost £1,000,000 — his entire estate — rather than pay tribute to the occupying army. He fought at the Battle of Miraflores. He was arrested, exiled to Chile, and held prisoner. From captivity, he worked diplomatic channels — including direct communication with U.S. Congressman allies — to negotiate Peru's peace treaty. He directed irrigation of the Rímac River basin. He founded the Club de la Unión. He built institutional Peru with his own hands. There is no monument to his name. There will be.
1895
AREQUIPA → PARIS, FRANCE
In a private laboratory in Paris, a Peruvian engineer from Arequipa built the world's first liquid-propellant rocket engine — and the first thrust vector control system. Pedro Paulet Mostajo was 21 years old. He published nothing, filed nothing, claimed nothing — and was forgotten for decades. It was Wernher von Braun, the architect of the Apollo program, who acknowledged Paulet as the true pioneer of modern rocketry. NASA recognized him. Peru honored him on its 100-soles banknote. Asteroid 4443 Paulet was named in his honor. Google published a global Doodle. He invented jet propulsion before the Wright Brothers flew. He was Peruvian. He was from Arequipa. His surname was Mostajo.
1907
AREQUIPA, PERÚ
Jurist, poet, founder of the Liberal Party of Arequipa, and national congressman from 1907 to 1918. Author of foundational Peruvian legal doctrine. A pillar of Arequipa's intellectual and civic tradition. Schoolmate and first cousin of Pedro Paulet. The Mostajo family carried both the law and the sky.
mid-20c
AREQUIPA, PERÚ
Grand Mason. Keeper of the civic and institutional tradition of the Mostajo family in Arequipa across the 20th century.
2026
LIMA, PERÚ
The company carries both surnames because both surnames built Peru. The Derteano line financed its defense and built its financial infrastructure. The Mostajo line invented its aerospace future. This is not branding. This is inheritance.
We did not choose aerospace. We were born into it.
— Est. 1824 · Lima & Arequipa, República del Perú
04 / FOUNDER
FOUNDER & CEO · DERTEANO AI INDUSTRIES · LIMA, PERÚ
Est. 1824
DERTEANO LINE · PATERNAL
Direct descendant of Dionisio Derteano Echenique (1824–1888) — founder of Banco Nacional del Perú, congressman, financier of Lima's national defense, architect of the Dreyfus Contract, founder of Club de la Unión, director of Rímac irrigation, survivor of Chilean exile, and negotiator of Peru's peace treaty from captivity. The Derteano surname represents institutional Peru at its most consequential moment.
MOSTAJO LINE · MATERNAL
Family of Pedro Paulet Mostajo — inventor of the world's first liquid-propellant rocket engine (Paris, 1895), precursor of modern jet propulsion, recognized by Wernher von Braun, NASA, and the International Astronautical Federation. Grandson of Mazzini Mostajo (Grand Mason). Great-grandson of Francisco Mostajo Miranda — jurist, poet, congressman, and founder of the Liberal Party of Arequipa. The Mostajo surname is Peru's aerospace lineage.
TECHNICAL FORMATION
CPCC — Community College, USA
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Computer & information systems architecture. Hardware, networks, and full-stack software — the technical foundation of an aerospace AI platform.
University of Pennsylvania
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Applied AI and machine learning — Ivy League certification. Analytical foundation for DAI's geospatial intelligence and predictive territorial analysis engines.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AI & DATA SCIENCE
Professional education in AI and data science from the world's leading engineering institution. Applied directly to DAI's drone intelligence and sensor fusion architecture.
Field Operations · Peru & LATAM
OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Drone deployment across Andean geography. Precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and defense-adjacent operations at altitudes above 5,000m. The platform is built from real missions.
I am one person. When funding arrives, I will build a team. But the mission does not wait for a team. The Derteano and Mostajo families never waited for permission to serve Peru. Neither will I.
— Dionicio Derteano Mostajo, Founder · Lima, 2026
05 / BUSINESS MODEL
Fixed-wing surveillance drones, multi-rotor precision payload platforms, and VTOL hybrids — manufactured in Lima. Government and commercial procurement. Unit economics improve at volume. Margins 35–45%.
Proprietary flight management, mission planning, and AI-powered geospatial intelligence platform. SaaS licensing to operators, government agencies, and mining conglomerates. Recurring revenue. Margins 70–80%.
Turnkey drone operations: precision agriculture, infrastructure inspection, border surveillance, search and rescue. Contract and retainer-based. Immediately deployable — operations already active.
Geospatial, thermal, and multispectral data products sold to agribusiness, mining, energy, and national security clients. Highest margin segment. Defensible data moat compounds with every flight.
06 / USE OF FUNDS
Minimum viable factory. Maximum strategic leverage.
| Milestone | Timeline | Capital |
|---|---|---|
| Factory space secured + equipment ordered | Months 1–3 | $200,000 |
| First prototype airframe completed + tested at 5,200m | Months 4–6 | $125,000 |
| Government pilot contract signed (MoD or regional) | Months 6–9 | — |
| Series A readiness · $3M target | Month 12 | — |
Legal entity: Derteano Group S.A.C. · Registered in Lima, República del Perú · Full cap table, shareholder agreements, and corporate structure available to verified investors under NDA.
07 / INVESTOR LANDSCAPE
DAI is not raising capital from the public. We are seeking strategic investors who understand what sovereign aerospace capability means for a developing nation with a defense urgency — and who want to be part of the first chapter of Peru's aerospace industrial history.
TIER I · SOVEREIGN & INSTITUTIONAL
COFIDE · ProInversión · CONCYTEC · Ministerio de Defensa (industrial offset allocation) · IFC World Bank · US EXIM Bank · OPIC/DFC successors
Highest strategic alignment. Sovereign mandate justifies non-commercial terms.
TIER II · PERUVIAN FAMILY CAPITAL
Brescia Group · Romero Group · Hochschild Mining ventures · Benavides Family Office · Ferreycorp strategic investment arm · Graña y Montero successors
Patriotic capital with long-term infrastructure horizon. Natural cultural alignment.
TIER III · INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC
Israeli aerospace dual-use investment desks · Colombian and Chilean defense tech crossover funds · US defense-adjacent family offices · UAE sovereign technology funds
Technology transfer, distribution, and co-manufacturing potential alongside capital.
08 / COMPETITIVE MOAT
A 200-year surname in Peruvian institutional finance and aerospace invention is not acquirable. It cannot be purchased, copied, or matched by a new entrant.
DAI already operates at 5,200m in the Andes. Most manufacturers have never tested at altitude. This is a two-year operational head start embedded in the product.
F-16 industrial offset and existing Ministry relationships create a procurement pathway that bypasses the typical sales cycle entirely.
Every operational flight builds a proprietary dataset of Peruvian terrain, weather, and infrastructure at resolutions no satellite can match. This is the long-term defensible asset.
The first Peruvian sovereign drone manufacturer wins the government standard. Standards compound. Second place in this market is worth very little.
09 / REQUEST ACCESS
Complete financial projections, cap table, legal structure, technical specifications, and NDA — available to verified investors.
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