Sarla Aviation Raises “USD10 Million from Accel, Nikhil Kamath, Pioneer Founders via Series A1 Funding Round”

India-based eVTOL com­pa­ny, Sar­la Avi­a­tion, has recent­ly raised USD10 mil­lion via a Series A1 fund­ing. This round was led by Accel and Nikhil Kamath, with par­tic­i­pa­tion from angel investors includ­ing Bin­ny Bansal, Sri­har­sha Maje­ty and Pio­neer Founders of India, reports a press release. This fund­ing enables Sar­la to accel­er­ate its mis­sion of trans­form­ing trans­porta­tion in India by offer­ing afford­able, effi­cient, and sus­tain­able air mobil­i­ty solu­tions.

The release explains, “As urban­i­sa­tion accel­er­ates and traf­fic con­ges­tion wors­ens in Indi­an cities, Sar­la pro­vides instant mobil­i­ty solu­tions that bypass road-bound infra­struc­ture, envi­sion­ing a future where Indi­ans can seam­less­ly live, work, and thrive with­out the lim­i­ta­tions of ground trans­porta­tion.”

Found­ed last year by Adri­an Schmidt, Rakesh Gaonkar and Shiv­am Chauhan, the team bring expe­ri­ence from pre­vi­ous eVTOL play­ers, “com­bin­ing glob­al exper­tise with local insights to set new bench­marks in urban mobil­i­ty,” con­tin­ues the release.

Sarla’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with Kem­pe­gow­da Inter­na­tion­al Air­port

Sar­la says its eVTOL offers the high­est pay­load in the mar­ket, capa­ble of car­ry­ing up to 680 kg, as well as allow­ing 35 per­cent more pas­sen­gers per flight at 4x low­er tick­et prices com­pared to west­ern com­peti­tors. This posi­tions Sarla’s fly­ing taxi “as a prac­ti­cal, afford­able and effi­cient solu­tion for mass mobil­i­ty.

Adri­an Schmidt, co-Founder and CEO of Sar­la Avi­a­tion, com­ment­ed, ”This fund­ing is a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone for Sar­la Avi­a­tion as we advance our mis­sion to rev­o­lu­tionise trans­porta­tion in India.” He con­tin­ued, “With the sup­port of our investors, we are accel­er­at­ing the devel­op­ment of our tech­nol­o­gy, expand­ing the team and estab­lish­ing a state-of-the-art R&D Cen­tre.”

Adding, “We also plan to launch a free-of-cost air ambu­lance ser­vice, address­ing the urgent need for rapid med­ical response and sav­ing count­less lives by elim­i­nat­ing traf­fic-relat­ed delays.”

Pratik Agar­w­al, Prin­ci­pal at Accel remarked, “The Founders of Sar­la are exact­ly the type of peo­ple who can bring their vision to life. Their empha­sis on cost eco­nom­ics and reli­a­bil­i­ty could make them a blue­print for oth­er rapid­ly urban­is­ing regions world­wide.”

Oth­er angel investors par­tic­i­pat­ing in the round include Abhi­raj Singh Bhal (Urban Com­pa­ny), Abhishek Goy­al (Tracxn), Ramakant Shar­ma (Liv­Space), Sujeet Kumar (Udaan), Man­ish Agar­w­al (Kratos) and Sandeep Nail­w­al (Poly­gon).

Pratik Agar­w­al

Sar­la is set to unveil its first fly­ing taxi pro­to­type on Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 17th at Bharat Mobil­i­ty Glob­al Expo 2025, in New Del­hi. The com­pa­ny will also ini­ti­ate test flight cam­paigns and accel­er­ate the cre­ation of addi­tion­al pro­to­types, aim­ing for mar­ket launch by 2028.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.sarla-aviation.com

(Top image: Sar­la Avi­a­tion)

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