{"id":859,"date":"2025-02-18T04:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2025-03-25T04:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:05:39","slug":"liliums-e150-million-jumpstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/liliums-e150-million-jumpstart\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilium&#8217;s \u20ac150 million jumpstart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Within the next few days <strong>Marian Bo\u010dek<\/strong> will provide the portion necessary out of a total <strong>150 million euros<\/strong> to keep the lights on at <strong>Lilium<\/strong> (<strong>OTCMKTS: LILMF<\/strong>) which needs around 10 million euros for salaries and rental costs each month. This is in addition to the tens of millions of euros owed to suppliers in short-term costs. Last Wednesday <strong>Marian Bo\u010dek<\/strong> promised that the funds required will be available to Lilium. <strong>Severin Tatarczyk<\/strong>, who replaced <strong>Philipp Schoeller<\/strong> to manage <strong>Lilium Aerospace GmbH<\/strong> during this difficult transitory period has wisely decided not to pursue a second bankruptcy, which would have destroyed Lilium. Tatarczyk sees the lights on the distant runway, guiding the aircraft to a safe and sound financial landing. After employee salaries and other obligations are paid, this cash injection from <strong>Marian Bo\u010dek<\/strong> will provide Lilium with the ability to continue with its plans for its first manned flight this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good relations with Lilium&#8217;s suppliers, such as <strong>InoBat<\/strong>, and <strong>CustomCells<\/strong> were crucial for Lilium&#8217;s rescue and restructuring. These two companies provide batteries for Lilium aircraft. As we reported in a previously, many suppliers were interested in keeping Lilium afloat, and were willing to wait for payments for the vital materials and components Lilium needed to stay in business. Lilium itself was an investor in InoBat&#8217;s round C funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1643795242219-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-863 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1643795242219-1.jpg 479w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1643795242219-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time to Recharge Lilium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marian <strong>Bo\u010dek<\/strong>, Co-Founder and CEO of InoBat remarked in 2023:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cLilium\u2019s vision to revolutionize air travel and its commitment to innovation strongly align with our core strategy in the global EV market&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;we look forward to taking our ongoing collaboration with Lilium to the next level and helping Lilium secure high-volume, high-quality deliveries of its advanced battery cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Major investors of the new <strong>Lilium Aerospace GmbH<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Marian Bo\u010dek<\/strong> (Co-founder of one of Lilium&#8217;s battery suppliers InoBat, and DTM investments.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CustomCells<\/strong> (a German battery supplier for Lilium&#8217;s aircraft)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Frank Thelen<\/strong> (Investor of Wunderlist, Investor on German version of &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; Die H\u00f6hle der L\u00f6wen)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Christian Reber<\/strong> (Founder of Wunderlist, currently at Pitch)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan Beckers<\/strong> (Ioniq)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Niklas Zennstr\u00f6m<\/strong> (Founder of Skype, Co-founder of Kazaa, currently at Atomico)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fifth Wall <\/strong>(US based Asset Management Company)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-4-A-rendering-of-what-the-finished-Voderady-plant-will-look-lik-1024x731.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-4-A-rendering-of-what-the-finished-Voderady-plant-will-look-lik-1024x731.webp 1024w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-4-A-rendering-of-what-the-finished-Voderady-plant-will-look-lik-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-4-A-rendering-of-what-the-finished-Voderady-plant-will-look-lik-768x549.webp 768w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-4-A-rendering-of-what-the-finished-Voderady-plant-will-look-lik.webp 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">InoBat&#8217;s future Volta II plant in Voderady, Slovakia where batteries will be built for Lilium eVTOL aircraft and will have up to 4 GWh of production capacity. (photo courtesy of InoBat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IonBlox<\/strong>, which is a California-based company which Lilium has invested in, developed the silicon anode technology that will be used in <strong>Inobat<\/strong> and <strong>CustomCells<\/strong> batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CUSTOMCELLS_Tuebingen-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CUSTOMCELLS_Tuebingen-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CUSTOMCELLS_Tuebingen-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CUSTOMCELLS_Tuebingen-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CUSTOMCELLS_Tuebingen-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CUSTOMCELLS_Tuebingen-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Silicon anode batteries made by CustomCells for Lilium aircraft. (photo courtesy of CustomCells)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More info:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lilium and InoBat partnership: <a href=\"https:\/\/lilium.com\/newsroom-detail\/lilium-announces-partnership-for-high-volume-production-of-lilium-jet-battery-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official website for InoBat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inobat.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lilium and CustomCells partnership: <a href=\"https:\/\/lilium.com\/newsroom-detail\/lilium-partners-customcells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official website for CustomCells: <a href=\"https:\/\/customcells.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marian Bo\u010dek<strong>&#8216;<\/strong>s biography page at InoBat: <a href=\"http:\/\/Marian Bo\u010dek\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Severin Tatarczyk&#8217;s biography page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.severint.net\/impressum\/autoren\/bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lilium_Shuttle_SideUpClose_Quicksilver-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lilium_Shuttle_SideUpClose_Quicksilver-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lilium_Shuttle_SideUpClose_Quicksilver-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lilium_Shuttle_SideUpClose_Quicksilver-1-768x432.png 768w, 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This is in addition to the tens of millions of euros owed to suppliers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,59,14,49],"tags":[36,37,70,89,87,51,69,62,66,5],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evtol","category-aam","category-collaborations","category-vtol","tag-electric","tag-evtol","tag-finance","tag-green-tech","tag-investment","tag-lilium","tag-stocks","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-vtol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtolbuzz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}