Kitekraft blog · Dec 2024
Kitekraft won Electronics Weekly’s Elektra Award for Power System Product of the Year, highlighting its flying wind turbines and power electronics approach.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Kitekraft is a Munich-area airborne wind energy startup building "flying wind turbines": tethered aircraft that generate electricity with much less material, lower cost, and lower visual impact than conventional wind turbines. It is moving from prototype and test flights toward grid-connected pilot systems for grid-scale and off-grid customers.
Primary product
Flying wind turbines / airborne wind energy systems
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 26, 85521 Hohenbrunn, Germany
Team size
1-10
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Wind Electric Power Generation
Sub-industry
Airborne wind energy systems
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Latest round
Grant (prize money) / Horizon Europe MERIDIONAL · Dec 2022
Latest amount
$300K
Leadership
Co-CEO & Managing Director, Co-Founder
Co-CEO & CTO, Co-Founder
Head of Mechanical Engineering & Business Development, Co-Founder
Founders
Co-Founder
Engineering-heavy, mission-driven climate-tech culture with a flat hierarchy, open communication, autonomy, and explicit equality/diversity language.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
No public salary bands or compensation details found.
Benefits
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to target sale and/or operation of hardware systems for electricity generation.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approx. $0.4M-$0.5M/year (public estimate only)
Estimated monthly visits
2.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Kitekraft blog · Dec 2024
Kitekraft won Electronics Weekly’s Elektra Award for Power System Product of the Year, highlighting its flying wind turbines and power electronics approach.
Kitekraft blog · Sep 2024
Kitekraft reported longer-duration flights, improved redundancy, and a longest recorded flight of over 420 km.
Kitekraft blog · May 2024
The company said it received German aviation authorization for night flight, fully automatic operation, and no personnel on site, a major commercialization milestone.
Kitekraft blog · Apr 2024
Kitekraft said Germany’s Solarpaket I recognized airborne wind energy and created a specific feed-in tariff for the technology.
Kitekraft blog · Oct 2023
Kitekraft announced the first public-grid connection of its demonstrator near Oberhaching, with local utility offtake for test energy.