Arrival
EVUKClosed 2024
Total Raised
$1B
Peak Valuation
$13B
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2024
Business model
Design and manufacture electric vans and buses using proprietary microfactory production method.
In brief
Promised to reinvent vehicle manufacturing with small, modular "microfactories" instead of traditional giant plants, backed by Hyundai, Kia, and a $13B SPAC valuation. Repeated delays getting its electric van into production, mounting losses, and failed attempts to raise further…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2015
- Closed
- 2024
- Headquarters
- London, UK
- Industry
- EV
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Denis Sverdlov
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