Prior to UP.Partners, Ben co-founded AirMap, the world’s leading airspace management platform. AirMap leads the industry in delivering technology solutions globally for Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management (UTM) to enable advanced aerial mobility operations at scale. AirMap was acquired in November 2021. Additionally, with his UP.Partners co-founder and decades-long best friend Cyrus Sigari, the two co-founded jetAVIVA, the world’s leading broker of business jets. Ben is an FAA-certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor with more than 4,500 hours of flight experience in more than 100 types of airplanes, seaplanes, gliders, and helicopters. Ben also serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable.
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Builds and invests in technologies that help move people and goods cleaner, faster, safer, and at lower cost - on the ground, in the air, on the sea, and in space. They partner with the boldest entrepreneurs and largest companies in the world to help achieve our mission of Transforming the Moving World.
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