Statewide Roundups
Ohio's transformation from potential to performance is accelerating. From a $4.35B fintech challenger to autonomous jets shipping this spring, here's what happened across the state in recent weeks—featuring the founders and leaders building the future in the Heartland.
Advanced Manufacturing
Joby Aviation is betting big on Ohio’s advanced air mobility future, moving to acquire a massive Vandalia factory to double its aircraft production by 2027 and accelerate the shift from engineering to full-scale manufacturing.
Statewide Roundups
Our analytics revealed an undeniable trend: you care about the mega-builds. From defense hubs to crypto banks, the most-viewed stories of 2025 weren't about potential—they were about production. See how the physical and financial backbone of American innovation is being built in Ohio.
Statewide Roundups
From a $1B AI supercluster in Springfield to 15-minute drone deliveries in Dayton, Ohio’s high-tech pivot has moved from potential to proven results. We’re tracking $2B in new expansions and the innovators under 35 who are building the next generation of the Buckeye State.
Startups + VC
Dayton-based Dexa has secured a rare FAA waiver for autonomous, beyond-line-of-sight flights. From the "Birthplace of Aviation," CEO Beth Flippo is leveraging AI to empower local businesses with 15-minute delivery speeds that drop goods at precise locations—no address needed.
Startups + VC
Backed by JobsOhio and Rev1 Ventures, the Dayton startup is scaling its FHE silicon from prototype to production. This technology solves a massive bottleneck for the AI era: enabling high-speed computation on data while it remains fully encrypted, ensuring privacy against future quantum threats.
Startups + VC
Seven new partnerships are set to bridge the gap between local labs and federal deployment. We break down the winners uniting Ohio’s universities with private industry to solve high-stakes challenges in space, defense, and autonomy—aiming for $70M in future funding and 64 new high-tech jobs.
Artificial Intelligence
The cloud infrastructure leader selected Clark County's Springfield for a 50-megawatt facility housing 24,000 AMD GPUs. This strategic move deepens the state's digital footprint, providing the critical high-performance compute power required to fuel the next generation of AI innovation.
Startups + VC
DEXA (Drone Express), a Dayton-based drone logistics startup, has closed an oversubscribed $15 million seed round to scale its operations and introduce at-home drone delivery in major U.S. cities. The raise positions DEXA as one of the only companies of its size with all three critical FAA certifications — a
Dayton
Joby Aviation and L3Harris are partnering to develop autonomous hybrid VTOL aircraft for military use. By combining Joby’s manufacturing scale in Dayton with L3Harris’ mission expertise, the venture aims to deliver high-speed aircraft for logistics and surveillance by 2026.
Dayton
Joby Aviation, a California-based electric air taxi company, is ramping up operations at its newly renovated facility in Dayton, with long-term plans to produce up to 500 aircraft per year at the Ohio site. Joby is vertically integrated, handling design, manufacturing, pilot training, and operations in-house. That approach is on
Dayton
[caption id align="alignnone" width="1776"] Photo Credit: Ohio Governor’s Office [/caption] Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Brigadier General Jason Bartolomei, Commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) this week, reaffirming Ohio’s strategic partnership with AFRL