page_title: Volocopter
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Volocopter / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Volocopter 2X at IAA 2017. Electric ultralight VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) rotary wing aircraft. Certification as "light sport multicopter". In the background: a rapid response vehicle with blue LED lightbar; the blue light reflects in puddles of water. Photo cropped but no further processing yet.
context_page_description: Volocopter GmbH is a German aircraft manufacturer based in Bruchsal and founded by Alexander Zosel and Stephan Wolf. The company specializes in the design of electric multirotor helicopters in the form of personal air vehicles, designed for air taxi use.
  The CEO is Florian Reuter and chairman Lukasz Gadowski.
context_section_description: The company flew the Volocopter VC1 and Volocopter VC2 technology demonstrators, followed by the two-seat Volocopter VC200 prototype. The VC1 was first flown on 21 October 2011.
  The two-seat project that became the Volocopter 2X started in 2013, evolved from early single-seat Volocopter VC2 prototype flown in 2011. The two seat prototype was designated as the VC-200 and the derived production model the 2X.
  An on-line fundraising effort in 2013 on the Seedmatch website raised €500,000 in 2 hours and 35 minutes, setting a new European Union record. The money was used to build the VC200 prototype.
  The company received investments from a number of organizations including from Daimler AG, totalling €25M in 2017, to start 2X production. The aircraft entered serial production in April 2018 and will be built under contract by the German sailplane manufacturer DG Flugzeugbau.
  On 9 September 2019, Geely, which is also the parent company of Volvo Cars, Terrafugia and Lotus Cars, led a round of funding that raised $55 million in private investments for Volocopter.
  On 21 October 2019, Volocopter unveiled its VoloPort, as "the world’s first flying taxi station", at Marina Bay, Singapore. The VeloPort was then dismantled, to be moved for redeployment at subsequent launches.
caption: Volocopter 2X
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