Company
Wingcopter
Wingcopter is a German drone technology company based in Darmstadt, founded in 2017, developing the [Wingcopter 198](/models/wingcopter-198) tilt-rotor…
- Founded
- 2017
- HQ
- Darmstadt, Germany
- Status
- private (~$110M raised; capital-dependent)
Appears inLogistics robots/Delivery drones
Models
1
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
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
CEO
Tom Plümmer (Co-CEO) & Dr. Bernhard Klumpp (Co-CEO & CPO)
CFO
Tobias Jordan
Founders
Tom Plümmer, Jonathan Hesselbarth, Ansgar Kadura
Total funding
$110M+ across 8 rounds
EIB quasi-equity
€40M (May 2023)
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
Where Wingcopter's robots are verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
- delivery and inspection drones in United States →
- delivery and inspection drones in California →
- delivery and inspection drones in Ukraine (combat zones) →
- delivery and inspection drones in Nevada →
- delivery and inspection drones in United Kingdom →
- delivery and inspection drones in China →
- The global deployment map →
Relationships
Current leadership (7)
- Tom Plummer Co-founder & Co-CEOIR-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
- Tom Plümmer Co-founder & CEOreported, not verified
Founders (4)
- Tom Plummercofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Jonathan Hesselbarthcofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Ansgar Kaduracofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Tom Plümmercofounder
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 →
Recent coverage
Wingcopter in third-party press
Peer companies
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Amazon4 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Teledyne FLIR4 models
- AeroVironment3 models
Financial state
- 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)
- Other2025-06-30
Investors: Nordic Secondary Fund (lead)
- Strategic2023-05-11
$44M(reported)
Investors: European Investment Bank (lead)
- Series A Extension2022-06-21
$42M(reported)
Investors: REWE Group (lead), Salvia, XAI Technologies, DRONE FUND, Expa, Xplorer Capital
- Series A2021-04-01
$22M(reported)
Investors: Xplorer Capital (lead), Futury Regio Growth Fund, Hessen Kapital III
Regulatory filings (1)
- otherother · euactivereported
Linked models: Wingcopter 198
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
Common questions
- What is Wingcopter?
- 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).
- What does Wingcopter make?
- Wingcopter has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Wingcopter 198 (Wingcopter builds physical robots).
- Is Wingcopter publicly traded?
- No. Wingcopter is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Who competes with Wingcopter?
- On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Wingcopter building in the same form factors include Anduril Industries, DJI, Amazon, Autel Robotics.
- Where is Wingcopter headquartered?
- Wingcopter is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany.
- Where does Wingcopter operate robots?
- Wingcopter 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 Wingcopter a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Wingcopter ranks in roughly the top 43% of companies tracked by the registry.
- When was Wingcopter founded?
- Wingcopter was founded in 2017.
- Is Wingcopter safe?
- Wingcopter has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-14
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-14
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
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Amazon4 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Teledyne FLIR4 models
- AeroVironment3 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
- Anduril Industries7 models
- DJI7 models
- Amazon4 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Teledyne FLIR4 models
- AeroVironment3 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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Today, poor infrastructure still prevents billions of people from accessing healthcare, urgently needed supplies or essential commercial goods. We have set out
2012 - 2016 Some of mankind's greatest inventions have arisen from the innovative combination of the existing. At WINGCOPTER, the innovation also consists of
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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Reality vs attention
Wingcopter draws attention at the 56th percentile but verifies reality at the 20th percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap +35.5, 9th 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.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
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.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Jul 14, 2026