Larry Page Google’s Co-founder, Backing Two Flying Car Start-ups

PC Tech June 10, 2016

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Google's Co-founder, Larry Page at Corbett's "public interest" event, pitching his new Android phone. Image Credit: mediafreedom

According to Bloomberg’s report on Thursday, Google Co-founder Larry Page is backing two start-ups that are working on flying cars, including funding one of them with more than $100 million so far.

Zee.Aero, into which Larry has poured more than $100 million since it started in 2010, conducts test flights of its prototype at an airport hangar in Hollister, California, Bloomberg said.

The start-up has a manufacturing facility on NASA’s research center at the edge of Mountain View, the news agency said.

Since last year, Larry has also been funding another start-up, Kitty Hawk, that is working on a similar competing model, Bloomberg said.

Kitty Hawk, which employs about a dozen engineers and has its headquarters about half a mile away from Zee.Aero, is working on “something that resembles a giant version of a quadcopter drone”, according to Bloomberg.

Larry, who is referred to as the guy upstairs (‘GUS’) by Zee.Aero employees, demanded his involvement in the start-up should stay hidden, Bloomberg said.

[Reuters]