The Hybrid Electric Bet with Kevin Noertker of Ampaire
In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Noertker, co-founder and CEO of Ampaire, a company building hybrid electric propulsion and onboard power systems for existing aircraft. Kevin shares his path from NASA JPL to a $200M aerospace program to the lunch pitch that changed everything. We cover why Ampaire bet on retrofits over clean-sheet designs, how a Hawaiian airport killed their plug-in strategy, and what happened when a signed $10M term sheet quietly became $250K. We also get into the SPAC they walked away from, the 18 months they ran cashflow breakeven, and why the most credible path to…
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