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Talyn Air
Electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft system
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Security
- Logistics
- Electric Vehicles
- Delivery
- Aerospace
- Fox Hills, Culver City, CA
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Company mission
To bring speed and efficiency to middle-mile cargo.
Our take
The promise of harnessing cleaner electric energy, in combination with eliminating runway requirements, and offering greater manoeuvrability, has many hoping that the advent of eVTOL (electric takeoff and landing vehicles) will revolutionize the logistics and transport industry. Plenty of top-tier contenders have thrown their hats into the ring to get them off the ground (Airbus, Boeing Airlines, and Tesla for example), along with a spate of smaller startups. Talyn, headed up by ex-SpaceX engineers, is one of them.
Talyn’s solution is a design based on multi-stage rockets: the vehicle is composed of a flight vehicle and a lift vehicle. The latter detaches once the flight vehicle reaches altitude, and means that horizontal flight engineers don’t need to design around disruptive TOL equipment.
It’s a novel and highly effective design, and the applications of this kind of “automated middle mile” cargo delivery system are broad and highly lucrative. For example, Talyn is developing specialist prototypes for the US Air Force expected to revolutionize battlefield logistics. Competition is fierce, but landing this kind of military interest early will be crucial as the technology erupts.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Significant equity in the company
- Group Medical, Dental, and life insurance
- Short and Long-Term disability coverages
- Relocation assistance is provided if needed
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2021
$2.3m
SEED
Jul 2020
$1.5m
SEED
Total funding: $4m
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Leadership
Jamie Gull
(CEO)Previously worked as an Engineer at Scaled Composites and Space Exploration Technologies, before moving on to co-found and serve as Principal Engineer at Tendeg. Is also a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an Angel Investor for over a dozen startups including Boom Supersonic, Straightline Aviation, and Clubhouse.
Evan Mucasey
(CTO)Completed a Master's in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University, then interned at Excalibur Almaz before spending over five years as a Vehicle Engineer on various projects at SpaceX. Is also a licensed SUAS Pilot and a Private Aircraft Pilot.