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Electric Aircraft Maker Bye Raises $10M for eFlyers
Bye Aerospace aims to have its two-seat eFlyer all-electric aircraft ready to enter service in 2021, followed by the four-seat eFlyer 4.
Bye Aerospace eFlyer 2
Bye Aerospace is developing the all-electric, two-seat eFlyer 2 as well as the four-seat eFlyer 4 model. [Photo: Bye Aerospace]

Bye Aerospace this week raised a further $10 million to support the development of its all-electric eFlyer family of fixed-wing light aircraft. The U.S. company announced on July 13 that an undisclosed venture capital group has invested $5 million and that this was supplemented by an additional $5 million venture raise.

According to founder and CEO George Bye, the additional capital has allowed the Denver-based startup to start working on the first production-conforming prototype of its two-seat eFlyer 2 model. He reported that while the two new transactions had been closed during Covid-19 restrictions, the investors had conducted due diligence and planning before the pandemic escalated.