“Skyportz Latest Fundraiser a Great Success”

Sky­portz, the Aus­tralian-based ver­ti­port devel­op­er, announced this week that its lat­est fundrais­ing has been a big suc­cess, reports a press release. The com­pa­ny is cur­rent­ly rais­ing funds via the Bir­chal plat­form. 

Sky­portz reached its min­i­mum raise last week in just 29 min­utes after open­ing and by Mon­day (April 28th) had attract­ed over 300 new investors on top of its exist­ing 500. If you’re inter­est­ed in an invest­ment, be quick as the offer clos­es tomor­row (Thurs­day, May 2nd).

https://www.birchal.com/company/skyportz

The release explains, “Sky­portz has been assem­bling the pieces of the Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty puz­zle in Aus­tralia for the last 5 years. Its focus is on break­ing the nexus between avi­a­tion and air­ports and enabling prop­er­ty own­ers to acti­vate their sites with ver­ti­ports.”

Clem New­ton-Brown, Founder and CEO of Sky­portz, com­ment­ed, “The recent major invest­ment from the Mid­dle East into ver­ti­port infra­struc­ture gives us a lot of con­fi­dence with Sky­portz here in Aus­tralia. We believe we are on the right track.” He con­tin­ued, “The com­pa­ny is well posi­tioned to cap­i­talise on the oppor­tu­ni­ty to facil­i­tate this avi­a­tion rev­o­lu­tion in Aus­tralia when it arrives.”

To sup­port Newton-Brown’s enthu­si­asm, the Mid­dle East, in par­tic­u­lar Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is present­ly plough­ing mas­sive amounts of mon­ey into the eVTOL indus­try with the two lead U.S elec­tric air taxi man­u­fac­tur­ers, Archer and Joby, great­ly ben­e­fit­ting with their oper­a­tions set to com­mence next year.

Also, UK-based Sky­ports, anoth­er ver­ti­port devel­op­er, has recent­ly secured a USD110 mil­lion invest­ment from ACS Group, one of the world’s fore­most infra­struc­ture and con­struc­tion com­pa­nies, via its sub­sidiary, Irid­i­um; while both Joby and Archer have gained “a mul­ti hun­dred mil­lion dol­lar invest­ment” from the Abu Dhabi Invest­ment Office (ADIO) to sup­port oper­a­tional infra­struc­ture.

Back in Aus­tralia, Mel­bourne-based air­port con­struc­tion spe­cial­ist, Maz Group, has emerged as a lead­ing investor in Sky­portz. With expe­ri­ence in air­port ter­mi­nal con­struc­tion, hangars and gen­er­al avi­a­tion, its projects include the Mel­bourne and Launce­s­ton Air­ports. Maz will be col­lab­o­rat­ing with Sky­portz in ver­ti­port design and con­struc­tion.

Mar­ty Crag­gi­ly, MD of Maz Group and a for­mer Aus­tralian Super­bike cham­pi­on, remarked, “We have exten­sive expe­ri­ence in all aspects of air­port build­ing, from hangars to ter­mi­nals to bag­gage han­dling. This is our area of exper­tise. We aim to devel­op an entire­ly new class of build­ing for Sky­portz. A ver­ti­port ter­mi­nal for the emerg­ing elec­tric air taxi indus­try.”

Mar­ty Crag­gi­ly

New­ton-Brown added, “At Sky­portz we are devel­op­ing con­cepts and designs for some­thing that does not yet exist. The input from Maz, one of our most sign­f­i­cant share­hold­ers, will great­ly enhance the abil­i­ty to actu­al­ly con­struct a ver­ti­port net­work when the time is right.”

For more infor­ma­tion

https://skyportz.com/

https://www.mazgroup.com.au/

(Top image: Cred­it — Pascall+Watson/Contreras Earl Archi­tec­ture )

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