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Recently, Volant Aviation (hereinafter referred to as "Volant"), a leading eVTOL company, has received nearly 100 million yuan in A+ financing. This round of financing was led by Huaqiang Capital and co-invested by Jingkai Capital. The financing will be used to continue to promote the flight test and test of the VE25 X1 demonstrator, the R&D and manufacturing of the product AC101, accelerate the development of the model and develop the commercial passenger market.
It is worth noting that this round of financing is only one month after the previous round of financing.
Since April, Volant has reportedly received more than 200 visitors a week. It is worth noting that the enthusiasm of local government state-owned assets is also very high, it is understood that in the past two months, Volant has intensively received nearly 100 cities to attract investment teams or state-owned funds. Partner Huang Xiaofei revealed that some local governments are even willing to invest 300 million to 500 million yuan for Volant to move its headquarters.
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Shanghai, Volant Aviation is a high-tech company specializing in the development of eVTOL for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and its core team is from the civil aviation system.
Volant's VE25-100 eVTOL has received nearly 700 orders from leading general aviation companies, covering application scenarios such as air tours, short-distance transportation, freight, urban governance, and emergency rescue.
The number of low-altitude economic investment and financing events is increasing year by year
From the perspective of the number of investment and financing events, from 2020 to 2022, the number of investment and financing events in the mainland's low-altitude economic industry showed a year-on-year growth trend, with 33 investment and financing events in 2022, with an investment and financing amount of 12.19 billion yuan, and a total of 20 investment and financing events from January to December 2023, involving an amount of 3.994 billion yuan.
Note: 1) The chart data "Investment amount (100 million yuan)" only includes the events with the disclosed investment amount, and the investment events with the undisclosed amount are not counted; 2) The query time is as of December 20, 2023.
Low-altitude economic investment opportunities
With the orderly development of the low-altitude economy, investment opportunities will also follow. In the future, unmanned aircraft will become a trend, centralized dispatching and command platforms are also in urgent need of funds for product development and marketing, the era of air sharing economy is coming, and green renewable energy is still the mainstream in the low-altitude era.
The governments of various regions strongly support the development of low-altitude economic industries
Governments across China have introduced policies to support the development of low-altitude economic industries, and at the same time, physical and information infrastructure, as the basis of business development, has certain public welfare and general attributes, so it is often planned by the government or state-owned enterprises. Local governments led by Hunan and Anhui have set up state-owned platforms to undertake the construction of drone infrastructure to help market players continue to develop.
According to the information disclosed by Yuntu Zhixing, the market size of China's low-altitude economic industry in 2022 will be 2.5 trillion yuan.
Yang Ling, head of CCID Consulting Intelligent Equipment Industry Research Center, said that the core of the current low-altitude economic development is low-altitude elementalization, factor scenario and scene economy.
For the future development of the entire low-altitude economic market, the central government in the 14th Five-Year Plan issued the "National Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline" made it clear that by 2035, the country is expected to support economic development of commercial and industrial drones are expected to reach 26 million, in the same period, drone pilots will also increase to 630,000. By 2035, the central government expects the industrial scale of the national low-altitude economy to reach more than 6 trillion yuan.
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