Wingcopter Photoshoot 17.06.2022 17. Juni 2022
Picture © Peter Jülich
Wingcopter, a Weiterstadt, Germany-based supply drone producer and repair supplier, raised $42m in Collection A extension funding.
The spherical, tripling the corporate’s whole fairness elevate to greater than $60m up to now, was supposed by REWE Group, Salvia and XAI applied sciences, which had been joined by ITOCHU and former backers Futury Capital and Xplorer Capital.
The corporate intends to make use of the funds to develop its drone supply providers globally, ramp up manufacturing, speed up R&D efforts, and rent 80 new workers.
Led by Tom Plümmer, Co-founder and CEO, Wingcopter is a producer of eVTOL, fixed-wing unmanned plane programs (UAS) and supplier of drone supply providers, targeted on optimizing medical provide chains, in addition to last-mile logistics of packages, instruments, spare elements, meals, and groceries.
Due to its patented tilt-rotor mechanism and software program algorithms, the Wingcopter 198 can take off and land vertically like a multicopter, whereas flying lengthy distances as effectively and rapidly as a fixed-wing plane, even in heavy rain and wind.
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