# Airbility: drone company

Canonical ID: `8e2522a5-5612-4760-ac53-23b6581b517a`

## Key facts

- **Co-CEOs:** [Jinmo Lee](/people/jinmo-lee.md), [Taekyu Ryu](/people/taekyu-ryu.md)
- **Products:** AB-U4, AB-U10, AB-U60, AB-M1300 (in development)
- **Technology:** Tilt Electric Propulsion System (Vectored Thrust)
- **Total funding:** [$7.6M (Pre-Series A + Series A)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Lead investor:** [Sazze Partners](/investors/sazze-partners.md) (Series A)
- **Markets:** Counter-UAS, disaster response, defense, public safety, personal aviation
- **Partnership:** Schübeler GmbH (EDF propulsion MoU)
- **Export pipeline:** C-UAS and DFR pipelines in 9+ countries

- **Slug:** airbility
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2023
- **HQ:** Seoul, South Korea
- **Funding total (USD):** 7600000
- **Category:** [Drones](/drones)

## Models

- [Airbility AB-M1300](/models/airbility-ab-m1300.md) (aerial) (id: `67e70c37-1827-44fc-a37d-8bb1a1b06d43`)
- [Airbility AB-U60](/models/airbility-ab-u60.md) (aerial) (id: `347d2a85-dece-4da1-ad40-71964d4f795c`)
- [Airbility Counter-Drone UAV](/models/airbility-counter-drone-uav.md) (aerial) (id: `f7cae802-adca-4205-9530-a467de642950`)

## Current leadership (5)

- [Jinmo Lee](/people/jinmo-lee.md) Co-Founder & Co-CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Jinmo Lee](/people/jinmo-lee.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Taekyu Ryu](/people/taekyu-ryu.md) Co-Founder & Co-CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Taekyu Ryu](/people/taekyu-ryu.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Kunwoo Kim](/people/kunwoo-kim.md) Vice President of AI (secondary-verified)

## Partnerships (1)

- [Airbility x Schübeler (EDF Propulsion)](/partnerships/airbility-x-sch-beler-edf-propulsion.md) with Schübeler GmbH _technology_ (announced) (_reported, not operationally verified_)

## 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._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Airbility?

Airbility is a South Korean deep-tech aerospace company developing high-speed eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft for counter-drone (C-UAS) and disaster response missions. Founded in 2023 by former engineers from the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Hyundai Motor Company, and LG Electronics, the company develops the AB-U10 anti-drone UAV, AB-U60 high-speed mothership UAV, and the planned AB-M1300 two-seat personal aircraft. Airbility has raised $7.6M total across a pre-Series A and a KRW 6.5B Series A led by Sazze Partners, and signed a strategic MoU with Germany's Schübeler GmbH for EDF propulsion technology.

### What does Airbility make?

Airbility has 3 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Airbility AB-M1300, Airbility AB-U60, Airbility Counter-Drone UAV (Airbility builds physical robots).

### Who competes with Airbility?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Airbility building in the same form factors include Amazon, Anduril Industries, DJI, Autel Robotics.

### Where is Airbility headquartered?

Airbility is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

### How much funding has Airbility raised?

Airbility has raised approximately $8M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Airbility operate robots?

Airbility 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 Airbility a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Airbility ranks in roughly the top 44% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Airbility founded?

Airbility was founded in 2023.


## Sources (1)

1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/airbility-secures-krw-6-5-billion-series-a-led-by-sazze-partners-bringing-total-funding-to-usd-7-6-million

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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