United Airlines Ventures

Founded in 2006, IndiGo embarked on a mission to connect people and places daily, non-stop, with a relentless focus on operational excellence. IndiGo revolutionised the industry, changing the face of Indian aviation and transforming the way Indians travel. The Success Factor At 18 years, IndiGo stands at the pinnacle of aviation, proudly soaring as India’s most preferred airline and the 7th largest in the world. With a formidable fleet of 400+ aircraft across 130+ destinations, IndiGo is not just flying higher but also giving wings to millions of aspirations. IndiGo Ventures takes flight Enter IndiGo Ventures, where we’re fuelling the next wave of innovative ideas by backing visionary startups and cutting-edge technologies. We’re not just shaping the future of air travel; we’re defining it by empowering the next generation of dreamers who aspire to be the future of aviation and allied sectors.

Mission driven, Starburst’s goal is to advance technology in the Aerospace sector. We support innovation by leveraging the expertise and novel ideation found in large and small businesses, government organizations, and academic institutions. Over the last decade, Starburst has proven that this future-focused, diverse ecosystem of collaborators can bring our partners to the forefront of innovation. Connecting visionary founders in our Aerospace accelerators to our extensive network of global aviation, space, and defense leaders–fostered in our parallel consulting practice–has changed the industry. Today, we are seeing an unprecedented boom in startup creation, new strategic opportunities for commercial success, more technological advances that are transformational as opposed to incremental, an industry being disrupted. Past Aerospace revolutionary concepts have resulted in not only game-changing military capabilities such as precision weapons and stealth technology, but also such icons of modern civilian society such as the Internet, automated voice recognition and language translation, and Global Positioning System receivers small enough to embed in myriad consumer devices. The aerospace technologies currently being developed hold the promise of solving the most difficult challenges facing humanity; Starburst is dedicated to supporting the aerospace innovators transforming the world.

A 35,000-foot view of travel industry innovation. What we do It’s simple. We invest in and partner with early-stage startups improving the travel, hospitality, and transportation industries. We’ve taken JetBlue’s original mission to bring humanity back to travel and are expanding it on an unprecedented scale – we want to improve the end-to-end experience for travelers everywhere, whether they’re flying or not. And we believe that partnering with game-changing technology companies is a great way to do it. Why we excel As you’d expect, we have a deep expertise in aviation, but our team also specializes in hospitality, regional and ground transportation, and more. In short, we’re travel geeks and could spend hours talking your ear off about the latest developments in predictive maintenance, machine learning, and electric propulsion for the industry. Combine that with our focus on helping turn good startups into great ones, and you’ve got our recipe for success. How we help Of course, we provide funding to promising startups, but we do so much more than that. We give steady guidance, make connections to industry power players, provide proof-of-concept opportunities, and, in some cases, incubate startups in our own Silicon Valley office. What’s next Some of the companies we work with are disrupting travel for the better. Others might take a few more years to make their vision a reality, but it’ll be worth the wait. As travel industry veterans and venture capitalists, we know the value of looking beyond the horizon. You just can’t beat the view. So tell us, how can we help you?

We’re an intensely curious, early to growth-stage VC firm independently supporting companies that are set to shift the future of aerospace. We invest in a full spectrum of fast-accelerating technologies addressing our planet’s greatest challenges. Airbus Ventures invests in autonomous mobility, electrification, low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, security, and beyond. Our firm uniquely operates across international borders to transform technology at the intersection of Earth and space. Our Network Airbus Ventures continuously fosters close and trusted relationships with other leading venture firms, actively offering hands-on expertise to our portfolio companies. We proudly leverage the richly dense networks of our mothership Airbus and its supply chain, as well as the wider ecosystem of our Limited Partners. We work with multiple LPs – including Airbus SE, Development Bank of Japan Inc., Mitsubishi HC Capital, Fuyo General Lease Co., Ltd., and McKinley Capital – to better enable our entrepreneurs to grow and succeed. Drawing on our own deep roots in aviation innovation, we believe it is a natural success that more than half of the species on Earth fly – it is the most successful adaptation this planet has known. With our entrepreneurs, we seek and develop new patterns of emergence, accelerating their synergies and ascent to new system capabilities.

It invests in small, growing companies and the ideas that will transform aerospace and defense. An investment from RTX Ventures carries benefits beyond an infusion of funding. It enables our partner companies to use our resources and mentorship to accelerate their growth and fuel innovation. Partnership benefitsAccess to our global network of more than 58,000 engineers Strategic funding to accelerate technology development Connectivity to 10 enterprise-wide capability development centers Fortune 50 business leaders ready to provide advice and mentorship RTX Ventures focus areas RTX Ventures is interested in technologies that can have an impact across the entire RTX portfolio. Some of these interests include: Secure and connected ecosystem: Connecting millions of nodes and networks across aviation as well as the domains of defense for seamless data-sharing and reliable operation amid dynamic cyber threats. Power and propulsion: Driving the next generation of propulsion through systems including scramjets and hybrid electric engines and motors – and solving the hardest challenges in heat management and materials science. Autonomy and artificial intelligence: Developing systems that interpret large data sets, respond autonomously and help human operators make critical decisions quickly. Precision sensing and effects: Building systems that provide greater visibility into operating environments and offer a variety of options to respond.

GM Ventures invests in start-ups that share General Motors’ vision of a world of zero emissions, zero crashes and zero congestion. We are focused on key technologies that can be implemented in GM’s vehicles, manufacturing facilities and operating businesses. Our investment approach is unique. We combine venture investing with the active support of General Motors’ technical and business resources to improve, expand and scale technology. This provides our portfolio companies with additional capabilities to commercialize their innovation in the global transportation industry and have GM as a potential customer. Since 2010, we’ve built strong relationships with start-up companies and other venture capital firms who share our vision to advance the automotive industry. Our investments have increased General Motors’ technology footprint, including industry-first innovations, and accelerated its strategy to earn customers for life.