In December 2019, the drone manufacturer scored a seven-digit funding from Singapore-based Corecam Capital Partners. In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, recognising its social impact as part of the fourth industrial revolution. ![]() As part of the undertaking, Wingcopter has partnered with UNICEF’S African Drone and Data Academy to train local youth in drone operations. In Malawi, Wingcopter recently started a COVID-19 response project named Drone + Data Aid to improve healthcare supply chains together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Wingcopter also plans to further grow the team in the fields of flight testing, certification, production, and software development, focused on ground and flight control software, embedded systems, software architecture, and cloud infrastructure. These services will allow customers to benefit from Wingcopter’s technology and its BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) flight operations of five continents, without having to own a fleet of drones. In addition to selling drones, Wingcopter will expand its drone-delivery-as-a-service offerings. The Darmstadt-based drones company will use the funds to strengthen its focus on healthcare-related applications, including the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. In addition, Futury Ventures and Hessen Kapital III participated in this financing round. The financing round was led by Silicon Valley-based Xplorer Capital, a key investor in autonomous technologies, and Futury Regio Growth Fund, a Germany-based growth capital fund focusing on investments in globally scalable business models. ![]() Award-winning manufacturer of eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) drones dedicated to humanitarian initaitives, Wingcopter, has secured $22 million (€18M) in Series A funding.
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