Kitekraft
Building flying wind turbines.
What they do
Wind energy generation is too expensive and material-intensive to deploy at scale with conventional wind turbines.
Kitekraft uses autonomous tethered electric kites with onboard turbines flying figure-eights to generate electricity from wind with far less material and lower cost than traditional turbines.
Utilities, renewable energy developers, and industrial power users seeking lower-cost wind power generation.
Founders
Renewable energy engineer. Co-founder of climate NGO "Protect Our Winters Germany". Former start-up consultant at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Working on solving climate change.
Graduated in mechanical engineering at Technical University of Munich. Delved into aerodynamics in master thesis optimizing Kitekraft's airfoils. Heavy interest in sustainability and technological advances tackling climate change, to which the solutions lie in the "We", not in the "I".
Aerodynamics engineer, graduated from Technical University of Munich. Focused on aircraft, helicopter, and wind turbine technology. Wrote master thesis about flying wind turbine aerodynamics optimization. Personal motivation powered by the vision of changing the world's energy generation.
Electrical and control engineer. Electrical Engineering PhD on "Multidisciplinary Optimization of Drag Power Kites" from Technical University of Munich. Published more than a dozen of research papers about flying wind turbine technology. Inventor of 5 patents pending. Passionate about renewable energies and anything that flies.
Company timeline
- Founded2019
- YC batchSummer 2019
- StatusActive
- Team size6 people
- LocationMunich, BY, Germany
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