Volocopter
AviationGermanyClosed 2025
Total Raised
$700M
Peak Valuation
Undisclosed
Employees
700
Year Collapsed
2025
Business model
Manufacture and operate electric multicopter air taxis for urban transport.
In brief
A German air-taxi maker aiming to launch electric multicopter flights in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics, backed by Daimler and Geely among others. Repeated delays to EU aviation certification and a widening funding gap left it unable to raise a rescue round, and it filed for in…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2011
- Closed
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Bruchsal, Germany
- Industry
- Aviation
- Employees
- 700
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Stephan Wolf, Alexander Zosel
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