The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Wingcopter: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $108.0M raised. 4 sources back the record.
Wingcopter holds 1 Regulatory filing, per the DEPLOY registry.
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Appears inLogistics robots/Delivery drones
Overview
Wingcopter is a German drone technology company based in Darmstadt, founded in 2017, developing the Wingcopter 198 tilt-rotor delivery drone for medical supply delivery, commercial logistics, and infrastructure surveying. The company's patented tilt-rotor mechanism enables seamless transitions between vertical takeoff and efficient long-range flight. Wingcopter has raised over $110M from investors including Xplorer Capital, DRONE FUND, REWE Group, Nordic Secondary Fund, and received €40M in quasi-equity from the European Investment Bank. The company operates globally with partners including Air Methods (US medical delivery), ITOCHU (Japan), and Continental Drones (Africa).
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundStrategic post-money
Key facts
CEO
Founders
Total fundingsee investors →
EIB quasi-equity
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
1
Web sources
2
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Wingcopter on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Wingcopter's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Wingcopter deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (6)
- Tom Plummer Co-founder & CEO, Co-founder & Co-CEOreported, not verified
- Jonathan Hesselbarth Co-founder & CTOIR-verified
- Ansgar Kadura Co-founder & Chief Strategy OfficerIR-verified
- Oliver Krockenberger COOIR-verified
- Armando Koerig Gessinger CROIR-verified
- Tobias Jordan CFOIR-verified
Founders (4)
- Tom Plummercofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Jonathan Hesselbarthcofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Ansgar Kaduracofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Tom Plummercofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Wingcopter.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Wingcopter1 deployment
Recent coverage
Wingcopter in third-party press
Peers
99 peers across 1 segment. Every Wingcopter competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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57 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 1809.2177305910177) · leader Anduril Industries at 3057%
- AEVEX Aerospacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATL Global Holding AGdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aereodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AeroVironmentdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgXeeddirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AirForestrydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $108.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (4)
Wingcopter’s 3 disclosed rounds, $108M in total, oldest to newest.
- Other2025-06-30
Investors: Nordic Secondary Fund (lead)
- Strategic2023-05-11
$44M(reported) · $352M post
Investors: European Investment Bank (lead)
- Series A Extension2022-06-21
$42M(reported) · $252M post
Investors: REWE Group (lead), Salvia, XAI Technologies, DRONE FUND, Expa, Xplorer Capital
- Series A2021-04-01
$22M(reported) · $132M post
Investors: Xplorer Capital (lead), Futury Regio Growth Fund, Hessen Kapital III
Regulatory filings (1)
- otherother · euactivereported
Linked models: Wingcopter 198
Timeline
Every recorded move in Wingcopter’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: Qualcomm
2026-08-23Supply: Communication modules for delivery drones from Qualcomm
New supplierNew supplier: NVIDIA
2026-08-23Supply: Edge compute for delivery drone navigation from NVIDIA
Funding roundOther funding round
2025-06-30Other
Funding roundStrategic funding round
2023-05-11Strategic raising $44000000
Funding roundSeries A Extension funding round
2022-06-21Series A Extension raising $42000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2021-04-01Series A raising $22000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
Wingcopter 198 delivery drone
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Wingcopter 198 at Lilongwe
Sources (4)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingcopter
- Wingcopter secures new funding · https://dronelife.com/2025/06/30/wingcopter-secures-new-funding-and-strengthens-leadership-team/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/wingcopter-brings-in-42m-for-delivery-drones/
- Wingcopter Series A Extension · https://wingcopter.com/series-a-extension
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
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High confidence
Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Wingcopter.Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
- Earendil Robotics4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Wingcopter from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Wingcopter secures new funding and strengthens leadership team
Wingcopter raises new funding from Nordic Secondary Fund and adds Dr. Bernhard Klumpp as Co-CEO and Tobias Jordan as CFO.
Wingcopter and ITOCHU Advance Drone Delivery in Japan with New Certification Process
Wingcopter and ITOCHU advance drone delivery certification in Japan, working toward type certification for the Wingcopter 198.
Wingcopter scores 2M in latest funding round, total equity raise to more than 0 million
Wingcopter raised 2M in a Series A extension, bringing total equity funding to over 0M for its delivery drone technology.
EIB provides €40 million for Wingcopter to scale up electric delivery drones and logistics services
The European Investment Bank provides €40M quasi-equity investment to Wingcopter under InvestEU to scale up delivery drone operations.
Wingcopter wins €40m EU funding to scale up delivery drone operations
Wingcopter secures €40M in EU funding via the EIB to scale up electric delivery drone production and logistics services globally.
Continental Drones and Wingcopter to transform African supply chains
Wingcopter partners with Continental Drones to deploy delivery drones across Africa for medical supplies and critical goods.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/wingcopter.md
- RSS feed: /companies/wingcopter/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/670c2ad9-680c-4a06-a695-7a6d51e3d2fa
- Revision history: /companies/wingcopter/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
- Earendil Robotics4 models
Video
This video is a showcase of Wingcopter's innovative unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology and displays some of the use cases and projects Wingcopter has been
Wingcopter, together with Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences and Merck, successfully tested the use of delivery drones for inter-site logistics operations
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2018 The WINGCOPTER 178 Heavy Lift is a modular system - easy to set up and ready to fly in five minutes. It is delivered in our customized transportation box
2016 Drones have become indispensable in today's world. What a few years ago sounded like something of the future has become reality. WINGCOPTER goes internat
The Wingcopter drone took a prominent place at VivaTech 2024. The autonomous drone with a speed record wowed the crowd. #VivaTech #VivaTech2024 #vivatechnolog
Finalist in the 2017 Drones for Good competition in Dubai. WINGCOPTER completed successfully a complex search and rescue demonstration with 3 Wingcopters plus
Tom Plümmer one of the founder of Wingcopter, gives you a little insight into his company and insights into the future of drone delivery. find out more: https
German company Wingcopter has signed a deal to roll out 12,000 of its long-range triple-drop delivery drones across Africa over the next five years, in what pro
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Wingcopter draws attention at the 21st percentile but verifies reality at the 8th percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap +12.8, 45th widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Well-capitalized with $108M raised. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Sep 2, 2026