📝 Acodyne raises $2.7M

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Copenhagen-based aerospace startup Acodyne has raised $2.68 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its high-speed, heavy-lift autonomous cargo drones tailored for defence, offshore energy, and remote logistics operations. Jointly led by Swedish defence venture capital firm Gungnir Capital and Danish investor PSV Hafnium—with key participation from Denmark's state investment fund EIFO, SAP9 Group, and GreenUP IV Invest—the round will finance the fabrication and tactical flight-testing of the company's "E100" prototype, an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft engineered to carry 100-kilogram payloads. Founded in 2023 by a highly specialized team of domain experts spanning the Danish Ministry of Defence, Scandinavian Airlines, and DTU Space, Acodyne relies on proprietary electric ducted-fan propulsion capable of pushing container-shippable aircraft to jet-class cruise speeds of 450 km/h, which is effectively double the operational velocity of traditional logistics helicopters. By deploying its customized, AI-driven "eTHOR" flight stack developed alongside DTU Compute, the modular platform aims to eliminate high-risk, multi-million-dollar manned resupply routes within contested defence quadrants, offshore wind sectors, and infrastructure-isolated terrains like Greenland before commencing its initial real-world flight trials later this year.

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