{"id":91121,"date":"2022-09-19T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/?p=91121"},"modified":"2022-09-19T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:22:07","slug":"a-plane-in-a-backpack-wingxpand-joins-techstars-accelerator-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2022\/09\/19\/a-plane-in-a-backpack-wingxpand-joins-techstars-accelerator-program\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plane in a Backpack?  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Crosby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Louis based drone startup <a href=\"https:\/\/wingxpand.com\/\">WingXpand<\/a> has been chosen from a pool of over 600 international companies to join the world-renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techstars.com\/accelerators\/los-angeles\">Techstars LA &amp; Space Accelerator<\/a>, a three-month program ending with a demo day for the tech and investor communities in December.<\/p>\n<p><em>Continue reading below, or listen:<\/em> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1346849722&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"DroneLife\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-244775845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DroneLife<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"A - Plane - In - A-Backpack - --WingXpand - Joins - Techstars\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-244775845\/a-plane-in-a-backpack-wingxpand-joins-techstars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A &#8211; Plane &#8211; In &#8211; A-Backpack &#8211; &#8211;WingXpand &#8211; Joins &#8211; Techstars<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In partnership with the U.S. Space Force and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the program is working to build the next frontier of aerospace, defense and space technologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91123 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/farm2-300x200.png\" alt=\"WingXpand Techstars\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>WingXpand was launched this past April by aerospace engineer James Barbieri, who possesses more than 10 years of industry experience, alongside Co-Founder &amp; Chief Customer Officer Michelle Madaras. The company\u2019s launch followed its debut of the first ever 7-foot expandable plane with a compact frame enabling storage in a backpack. Offering rapid support for real-time observations and pattern recognition, this solution sees use in military and public safety missions in addition to a variety of other use cases, such as the monitoring of plant health and mapping for surveying and inspections. This solution combines the small size and simplicity of a quadcopter drone with the horsepower of airplane wings, enabling it to fly 5 times longer, while equipped with 10 times more onboard data collection tools than traditional drones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is an exciting time in the drone space as more industries are seeing the time, cost, and safety benefits of using drones and are developing new ways of using them in their operations,\u201d said Barbieri. \u201cTechstars will be invaluable in helping us scale to meet the growing needs of our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis year\u2019s applicant pool for [Techstars] LA\/Space was one of the most competitive ever in terms of traction and the caliber of teams represented,\u201d added a spokesperson from Techstars. \u201cThe companies in this class are run by some of the most impressive technologists and some of the boldest, biggest dreamers we\u2019ve ever met\u2026This class also continues to build on our commitment to investing in diverse and underrepresented teams with 9 of the 12 companies being led by founders that identify as underrepresented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about WingXpand, and other new drone industry players:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2022\/06\/01\/drone-startup-wingxpand-the-best-of-multi-rotor-and-fixed-wing\/\">Drone Startup WingXpand: the Best of Multi-Rotor and Fixed Wing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2022\/06\/16\/indoor-robotics-tando-drone-startup-scores-15-million-for-building-security-solution\/\">Indoor Robotics Tando Drone: Startup Scores $15 Million for Building Security Solution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2022\/05\/12\/genius-ny-applications-are-open-drone-startups-apply-now-for-the-1-million-grand-prize\/\">GENIUS NY Applications are Open: Drone Startups, Apply Now for the $1 Million Grand Prize<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dronelife.com\/2022\/05\/17\/watts-innovations-drones-for-film-delivery-inspection-and-more-us-based-startups-engineering-mindset-pays-off-dl-exclusive\/\">Watts Innovations Drones for Film, Delivery, Inspection and More: US-Based Startup Engineering Mindset Pays Off [DL Exclusive]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Ian attended Dominican University of California, where he received a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong passion for writing and storytelling and a keen interest in technology, he is now contributing to DroneLife as a staff writer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup WingXpand Selected to Join Techstars Accelerator Program by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. 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