Future of Mobility Club

It's an honour to be recognised alongside so many people doing amazing things, in Forbes' new 30 Under 30 List of 2024 (Europe). Despite my single name being cited, I'm also humbled as I know that my team made that possible. The acceleration and progress made in the past months is the result of hard work all together, dealing with doubts and finding new solutions to new problems, day after day. Cheerful about another great signal for IONA, and mindful that it's another obligation to deliver autonomous delivery networks for logistics anywhere and for everyone. Stay tuned, as some very cool milestones are also about to be shared publicly! Thanks, Saïf-Deen, Nikhil, Conrad, Om, Sebastian, Jonny, and Arush, not forgetting all of the people who have been supportive and helpful every day on this almost 3-year journey Davide, Nicola, Iain, Ben, Matthew, Alex, Tom, Guy, Dave, Matt, Alfonso, Allison, Richard, Frank, Quentin, Prashant, Steve, Scott, Veronica, Nicola, Iain, David, Steve, Luigi, Andrea, Will, David and many others! #ForbesUnder30 #Cleantech #Aerospace #Logistics #Robotics #Startup

That's the smile of proud teammates. We have created the most energy-efficient sub-55lbs / modular UAV using a novel and patented tilt-rotor design, flight tested it, and proven jaw-dropping performances that can remove heavy and inefficient vehicles from rural roads. Yet, we are not a drone delivery company (wut?🤔) IONA is developing robotic delivery networks, working directly with Cranfield University for Aerospace, but also The National Robotarium for Robotics, as well as The University of Edinburgh for digital twin/ML and systems. We have created a drone because nothing good existed - with drones limited to light medical/cappuccino deliveries or ludicrous "air taxis" that wouldn't work for anything else than airport commutes for the 0.1%. Drones are just a great way to deliver goods with lightweight electric vehicles when you don't have the volume of delivery to "amortize" the CO2e/costs of a 3T electric van (especially on winding rural roads). However, IONA is about Autonomous Logistics, and we are at the forefront, with the capacity to grow our fleet and plug new systems later on. Stay tuned! (Sorry Jonny Miller, Conrad Woermann, Sebastian Bidoli, and Arush Sinhal: you'll be on the next one!)

After two years, McKinsey & Company confirmed IONA's unit economics and carbon case, presenting drone delivery as an alternative/complementary technology to delivery vans! 🥇 #Logistics #Lastmile #Startup