In the intense and very competitive advanced air mobility race, Munich-based Lilium is one of the top contenders.

In 2015, Daniel Wiegand co-founded this eVTOL startup just out of university and went on to raise over $1 billion in funding to develop his vision of a fully-electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft for the regional air travel market.

Today, less than a decade after its foundation, Lilium is in the select group of publicly-listed eVTOL developers that are already flight testing their aircraft and on path to certification.

It hasn’t been a smooth ride, though. Aerospace startups are super hard and cash-consuming and, despite hundreds of aircraft in it order book, Lilium has been constantly raising more funds to expand its financial runway and make it through to the much-awaited entry into service.

We talk about all of this, about the challenges of starting an aerospace firm based on an entirely novel concept, about the battery-powered ducted-fan technology Lilium has developed to propel its 30-engined Lilium Jet eVTOL and about the perspectives and market opportunities Lilium’s new aircraft is expected to open.

So, tune in for a fascinating chat with one of the pioneers of the nascent eVTOL era!