# AIR: robotics company

Canonical ID: `a09af3bd-0077-46fa-979e-c1c36c5e64e4`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Rani Plaut
- **CTO:** Chen Rosen
- **COO:** Netanel Goldberg
- **Funding:** $23M Series A (July 2025)
- **Employees:** ~70 (63 in Israel)
- **Orders:** $1B+ in pre-orders (company-reported)
- **Revenue:** $35M+ from cargo aircraft sales (company-reported)
- **Financial stage:** growth
- **FAA certification:** Experimental airworthiness certificate (Sept 2025)
- **Hero image candidate:** https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/4X-YHL.webp (source: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

- **Slug:** air-evtol
- **Founded:** 2018
- **HQ:** Kfar Yona, Israel
- **Funding total (USD):** 23000000

## Models

- [AIR ONE](/models/air-one.md) (aerial) (id: `b348be0c-724e-4a2c-8984-ca7dba33b471`)

## Current leadership (3)

- [Rani Plaut](/people/rani-plaut.md) CEO & Co-founder (SEC-verified)
- [Chen Rosen](/people/chen-rosen.md) CTO & Co-founder (SEC-verified)
- [Netanel Goldberg](/people/netanel-goldberg.md) COO & Co-founder (SEC-verified)

## Founders (3)

- [Rani Plaut](/people/rani-plaut.md) (cofounder)
- [Chen Rosen](/people/chen-rosen.md) (cofounder)
- [Netanel Goldberg](/people/netanel-goldberg.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Incidents affecting AIR (1)

- [Air One eVTOL prototype crashes in South Florida during envelope expansion test flight](/incidents/air-one-prototype-crash-florida-2025-10.md), 2025-10-23 · Collision

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## Common questions

### What is AIR?

Israeli aerospace OEM developing eVTOL aircraft for autonomous uncrewed cargo logistics and piloted personal flight. Founded in 2018, AIR produces the [AIR ONE](/models/air-one) platform in both crewed and uncrewed cargo variants, with production cargo aircraft delivered to launch customers. The company operates production facilities in Kfar Yona, Israel and a U.S. operations center in West Palm Beach, Florida, and participates in the [U.S. Air Force Agility Prime](https://www.afrl.af.mil/Agility-Prime/) program.

### What does AIR make?

AIR has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: AIR ONE (AIR builds physical robots).

### Where is AIR headquartered?

AIR is headquartered in Kfar Yona, Israel.

### How much funding has AIR raised?

AIR has raised approximately $23M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does AIR operate robots?

AIR is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is AIR a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, AIR ranks in roughly the top under 1% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was AIR founded?

AIR was founded in 2018.

### Are there any incidents involving AIR?

1 active incident involving AIR is on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.


## The verified answers

- [What happened to Cruise?](/what-happened-to-cruise.md)
- [Robot recalls and safety incidents](/robot-recalls-and-safety-incidents.md)

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