{"id":118148,"date":"2021-01-07T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T01:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/jetpack-aviation-raises-2m-to-build-the-prototype-of-its-flying-motorcycle"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T01:23:57","slug":"jetpack-aviation-raises-2m-to-build-the-prototype-of-its-flying-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/jetpack-aviation-raises-2m-to-build-the-prototype-of-its-flying-motorcycle","title":{"rendered":"JetPack Aviation raises $2M to build the prototype of its flying motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jetpack-aviation-raises-2m-to-build-the-prototype-of-its-flying-motorcycle.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Flying cars are fine \u2014 but why use a car when you can have a motorcycle instead? YC-backed startup <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpackaviation.com\">JetPack Aviation<\/a> wants to answer that question with the world\u2019s first flying motorcycle, a personal aircraft dubbed \u201cThe Speeder,\u201d a name that Star Wars fans will surely appreciate. Now, JetPack has raised a seed round of $2 million from investors indulging Draper Associates, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, YC, Cathexis Ventures and a group of angels that it says will fund the development of the Speeder\u2019s first functional prototype.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/03\/07\/ycs-latest-moonshot-bet-is-a-startup-building-a-380k-flying-motorcycle\/\">JetPack revealed its plans for the Speeder<\/a>, which it says will provide a fully stabilized ride that\u2019s either pilot-controlled or fully autonomous. It can take off and land vertically, and reach top speeds of potentially over 400 MPH. There are no exposed rotors systems, which make it a lot safer and easier to operate than a lot of other VTOL designs and helicopters, and the company says it can also be refueled in less than 5 minutes, which is a dramatically shorter turnaround time for powering up versus an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like. Flying cars are fine \u2014 but why use a car when you can have a motorcycle instead? YC-backed startup JetPack Aviation wants to answer that question with the world\u2019s first flying motorcycle, a personal aircraft dubbed \u201cThe Speeder,\u201d a name that Star Wars fans will surely appreciate. Now, JetPack has raised a seed round [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}