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March 23, 2020

Lilium Raises Another $240 M To Build, Evaluate and Operate a Taxi Service For Electric Aircraft

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To certain individuals at large, lengthy and fast trips have ended. Nonetheless, look ahead to a period where that may no longer be the case, a taxi designer today reports a big funding round to support advance the product growth.
Lilium, a Munich-based startup which designs and builds up vertical takeoff- and landing (VTOL) aircraft up to 100 km / h, which they eventually intend to operate with their taxi, has closed an “over” $240 million financing round – money they intend on using for further development and building production facilities to manufacture more aircraft, for a predicted launch.

“We work to deliver a new form of transport that is emission-free,” a spokesperson said. The following transaction has taken place inside the round (including current participants, not fresh buyers), and it ended last month. “Somehow needs considerable effort and expenditure but the result is a profitable enterprise and an ability to make a good effect on travel.”

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It was headed by Tencent and was supported by many former contributors, including Electric, Freigeist, and LGT. The valuation is not disclosed; however, the organization acknowledges that it is considerably better than its 2017 Series B.
The news today completes some tough past months for the firm, well before the coronavirus took control of the globe and threw a pall on all manner of travel. (For even further details, PitchBook reports that the business was priced at about $470 million last year.)

Lilium raises another $240 M to build
We noted last October that multiple outlets estimated that Lilium, which hires 400 employees, will earn between $400 million and $500 million, a phase in which it operated over several months. In the final report, the overall figure that the organization is currently investing is 160 million dollars more than the bottom end of the spectrum, but that’s not far from what that originally planned to raise. However, coupled with the lack of new buyers, there may be certain problems.
Yet the only obstacle was not to collect capital. Earlier this month, during any testing, the older of the two specimens of Lilium erupted into fire. The type was quickly scrapped, but experiments were nevertheless conducted on the second, older model before the first aircraft was able to ascertain the cause of the crash.
Whether energy, autonomy or both, the demand for aircraft-based taxi services remains extremely incipient. No licensed aircraft are currently present on the market (in fact rules have not yet been drawn up as to what that will look like) and so no systems are in operation yet.
To certain individuals at large, lengthy and fast trips have ended. Nonetheless, look ahead to a period where that may no longer be the case, a taxi designer today reports a big funding round to support advance the product growth.
Lilium, a Munich-based startup which designs and builds up vertical takeoff- and landing (VTOL) aircraft up to 100 km / h, which they eventually intend to operate with their taxi, has closed an “over” $240 million financing round – money they intend on using for further development and building production facilities to manufacture more aircraft, for a predicted launch.
“We work to deliver a new form of transport that is emission-free,” a spokesperson said. The following transaction has taken place inside the round (including current participants, not fresh buyers), and it ended last month. “Somehow needs considerable effort and expenditure but the result is a profitable enterprise and an ability to make a good effect on travel.”
It was headed by Tencent and was supported by many former contributors, including Electric, Freigeist, and LGT. The valuation is not disclosed; however, the organization acknowledges that it is considerably better than its 2017 Series B.
The news today completes some tough past months for the firm, well before the coronavirus took control of the globe and threw a pall on all manner of travel. (For even further details, PitchBook reports that the business was priced at about $470 million last year.)
We noted last October that multiple outlets estimated that Lilium, which hires 400 employees, will earn between $400 million and $500 million, a phase in which it operated over several months. In the final report, the overall figure that the organization is currently investing is 160 million dollars more than the bottom end of the spectrum, but that’s not far from what that originally planned to raise. However, coupled with the lack of new buyers, there may be certain problems.
Yet the only obstacle was not to collect capital. Earlier this month, during any testing, the older of the two specimens of Lilium erupted into fire. The type was quickly scrapped, but experiments were nevertheless conducted on the second, older model before the first aircraft was able to ascertain the cause of the crash.
Whether energy, autonomy or both, the demand for aircraft-based taxi services remains extremely incipient. No licensed aircraft are currently present on the market (in fact rules have not yet been drawn up as to what that will look like) and so no systems are in operation yet.

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