Media
The live versions.
Talks, podcasts and articles, if you'd rather hear it than read it.
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EN Flying Delivery Van Takes First Flight in Barcelona The maiden flight of our proof of concept at BCN Drone Center, crash included. Amad Malik’s crew filmed the good, the bad and the ugly, and we let them keep all three in. If you only watch one thing here, make it this.
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EN Grasshopper pitch, EU-Startups Summit Two minutes on a 200-person stage in Malta. A pitch is a compression exercise: three years of company into the time it takes to boil an egg.
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EN Grasshopper Air Mobility: meeting regulations A long conversation about certification, the unglamorous heart of the drone business. This is the part investors ask about last and founders should think about first.
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ES El dron que pilota solo: ¿utopía o negocio? A Spanish sit-down on whether autonomous cargo drones are a real business or a nice render. We talk numbers, routes and what logistics operators actually pay for.
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ES Drones de 350 kg de carga para reducir costes un 80% Interviewed at the Logistics Spain Innovation Hub about heavy payloads and what they do to logistics costs.
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EN Top 5 BNEW startup pitches The BNEW 2025 top-five pitches, queued to the moment I walk on stage.
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ES La incubadora más potente de startups logísticas Va de Logística visits the Logistics 4.0 Incubator and picks three startups to watch. Grasshopper is one of them.
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EN The Jetsons' future is taking off Episode one of The Air Mobility Show, on the Jetsons future and how close it actually is.
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EN Grasshopper unveils the autonomous e350 concept AVFoil’s video companion to their written interview, from the week the e350 concept went public.
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EN Pitch at BNEW 2024 The BNEW 2024 aviation-startup pitch, back when the e350 was brand new.
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EN Sustainability, scalability and a blueprint for cargo drones The most complete audio version of the Grasshopper thinking: why heavier payloads, why B2B routes, and why the boring path through regulation is the fast one.
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EN A conversation with the CEO & co-founder of Grasshopper Air Mobility Thirty-two minutes on building hard things away from home: seven countries, one company, and what moving to Barcelona taught me about starting from zero.
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ES Spain as a magnet for foreign entrepreneurs A national-daily feature on founders who chose Spain, told through three portraits. I am one of them: Berlin to Barcelona, warehouses to drones, and why I would choose this city again.
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EN JetPak and Grasshopper exploring drone delivery in the Nordics A deep dive on our operational study with Jetpak. Six months with a real logistics operator taught us more about routes, load factors and unit economics than any market report.
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GER Fliegender Lieferwagen: Jakob Saalfrank im Interview The long German Q&A: the path from Berlin via Graz to Barcelona, and how a question about flying cars slowly turned into a cargo-drone company.
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EN Grasshopper on redefining automated drone logistics The origin story, told first person, back when the e350 concept had just come out of stealth. Interesting to read now precisely because of what changed since.
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ES Grasshopper entre los galardonados de los Premios CEL The award organizer’s own announcement of the XXXV Premios CEL, Grasshopper among the winners.
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ES Una solución que transforma el transporte industrial El Referente profiles the company: heavy industrial cargo, the cold chain, and why a drone changes the economics.
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ES El salto del dron que redefine la logística Emprendedores takes the business-magazine angle on the drone that, in their words, redefines logistics.
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EN From rooftop chats to real investments EU-Startups on summit conversations that turned into real opportunities. One of their examples started for us on a rooftop in Malta.
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CAT La revolució aèria de la logística industrial The Catalan engineering association tells the origin story, my old Graz commute included.
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ES El coche volador de la logística VIA Empresa introduces Grasshopper as the flying car of logistics.
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EN Grasshopper unveils autonomous 'Flying Cargo Van' Zag Daily covers the reveal of the autonomous flying cargo van.
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EN Spanish startup reveals fly-drive cargo drone Aerospace Testing International on the fly-and-drive cargo drone, from the October 2024 reveal.
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GER Grasshopper stellt das e350-Transportkonzept vor Drones-Magazin introduces the e350 transport concept to the German drone scene.
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EN BNEW 2024 recognizes key startups for the new economy The Zona Franca consortium’s official BNEW 2024 write-up, with the mayor presiding and the press photo to prove it.
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EN Not a bird, nor a plane… but a Grasshopper CargoForwarder Global’s air-cargo trade take on the BNEW launch, under the best headline of the bunch.
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EN Europe's bold move toward autonomous cargo drones CDOTrends reports the MOU with the Advanced Air Mobility Institute. As far as I can tell, the earliest independent press mention of Grasshopper.
- EN Grasshopper joins the Drone Logistics Ecosystem
Unmanned Airspace notes Grasshopper joining the Drone Logistics Ecosystem. Short and to the point.