Velos Rotors Seed Financing Helicopter UAV

Velos Rotors Raises $2M Seed Spherical To Scale Helicopter UAV Manufacturing

By DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby

UAV producer Velos Rotors, Inc. introduced the completion of a $2 million preliminary spherical by Marathon Venture Capital. The funding will allow Velos to scale its manufacturing capability to satisfy the quickly rising demand for groundbreaking flying machines.

Widespread adoption of drones has been considerably hampered by some shortcomings of the broadly used multirotor design. Whereas the thrust produced by an plane is proportional to the floor of its propeller, multicopters use a number of small propellers, every of which covers a small floor and expends massive quantities of power.

Velos has developed a brand new UAV that takes benefit of the helicopter design. This twin-engine mannequin gives industry-leading redundancy, lowered noise and vibration, and elevated effectivity and efficiency.

The corporate’s all-electric, sub-55 lbs UAVs reliably carry a 13lb payload for 60 minutes at 35 MPH in nearly any climate (IP65), enabling a spread of recent doable purposes.

Velos supplies tailor-made, end-to-end options for quite a lot of use instances in logistics, medical provides, inspections and authorities purposes, together with the transportation of human organs, blood samples, border patrol, search and rescue, and large-scale analysis missions. The corporate has already delivered dozens of drone helicopters worldwide, accumulating 1000’s of flight hours.

“We constructed from the bottom up what now we have confirmed to be one of the best UAV in the marketplace,” stated Aris Kolokythas, Velos founder and CTO. Our drone helicopters are pushing aviation ahead and we’re excited to place them within the arms of extra company prospects globally.”

“We’re proud to serve our world buyer base with our superior efficiency, reliability and security,” stated Michael Seal, CEO of Velos and US Navy veteran. “Marathon Enterprise Capital’s funding will allow us to carry our product line to market sooner and make a significant impression on the industries we serve.”

“Multicopters are for fans. “The market wants industrial-grade UAVs and Velos is the primary to supply them,” stated George Tziralis, accomplice at Marathon Enterprise Capital. “We’re excited to work with Aris, Michael and their workforce to carry significant improvements to the market. Additionally, if you’re enthusiastic about aviation and need to make an impression with your enterprise, Velos is the place to be!

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Ian attended the Dominican College of California the place he earned a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a powerful curiosity in know-how, he now contributes to DroneLife as a employees author.

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