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Shuttered electric air taxi startup Lilium may be saved after all
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电动空中出租车初创公司Lilium在宣布停业并裁员约1000人后,迅速被一个由欧洲和北美投资者组成的财团救活。该财团成立的Mobile Uplift Corporation公司将收购Lilium两家子公司的运营资产。虽然母公司Lilium N.V.不会获得任何资金,但此举将使Lilium得以重组,摆脱破产困境,并保留其技术。新公司计划重新雇用被裁员工,并希望在1月份完成交易。此前,Lilium曾融资超过10亿美元,但由于开发垂直起降飞机耗资巨大,未能获得紧急资金而破产。

💰 Lilium在停业裁员后,被欧洲和北美的投资者财团成立的Mobile Uplift Corporation收购,得以重获新生。

🏢 Mobile Uplift Corporation将收购Lilium GmbH和Lilium eAircraft GmbH两家子公司的运营资产,母公司Lilium N.V.则不获得任何资金。

🛠️ 新公司计划重组Lilium,使其在保留技术的同时摆脱债务,并计划重新雇用被裁员工,但具体人数尚不明确。

✈️ Lilium曾获得沙特阿拉伯100架电动飞机的订单,但因开发垂直起降飞机耗资巨大,未能获得紧急资金而破产。

A consortium of investors has resurrected Lilium just days after the electric air taxi startup ceased operations and laid off about 1,000 employees.

Mobile Uplift Corporation, a company set up by investors from Europe and North America, has agreed to acquire the operating assets of the startup’s two subsidiaries, Lilium GmbH and Lilium eAircraft GmbH, per an announcement Tuesday.

The parent company, Lilium N.V, will not receive any funds in accordance with German insolvency law.

Terms of the deal, which are expected to close in January, were not disclosed. Consultancy giant KPMG handled the sale process for Lilium. Mobile Uplift Corporation said in the announcement it intends to rehire workers who were laid off immediately after opening of the proceedings and closing of the transaction. It isn’t clear if all 1,000 workers will be rehired.

When reached for comment by TechCrunch, Lilium spokesperson Christine Pierk did not provide any new information or answer TechCrunch’s questions about the deal.

Once the deal closes, the new owners plan to restructure Lilium, allowing the company to exit insolvency with its tech intact and without debt.

“We are very pleased to announce the signing of an investment agreement with a very experienced consortium of investors, which is a major breakthrough,” Lilium CEO Klaus Roewe was quoted in the announcement. “Deal closing at the beginning of January will allow us to restart our business.”

Lilium had raised more than $1 billion from private investors before it went public in 2021 on the Nasdaq Exchange via a reverse merger with a blank-check company, SPAC Qell.

Lilium had success landing customers, including an order from Saudi Arabia for 100 electric planes. But the company burned through cash faster than it could raise more from investors as it worked to develop a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with speeds of up to 100 km/h.

Lilium filed for insolvency — the U.S. equivalent of bankruptcy — in October, after failing to secure emergency funding.

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