Ark Make investments continued to snap up shares of Archer Aviation (NYSE:ACHR) on Thursday. The ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA:ARKK) picked up 199,949 shares, whereas the ARK Autonomous Expertise & Robotics ETF (BATS:ARKQ) bought 26,067 shares and the ARK House Exploration & Innovation ETF (BATS:ARKX) purchased 7,334 shares.
Santa-Clara, California-based Archer Aviation (ACHR) is a prime ten holding of the ARK Autonomous Expertise & Robotics ETF (ARKQ).
Archer Aviation produces electrical vertical takeoff and touchdown plane for city environments, with the objective of making a sturdy air-taxi service.
Archer Aviation (ACHR) lately secured a $215M funding from a gaggle that included Stellantis (STLA), Boeing (BA), United Airways (UAL), and ARK Funding Administration. The funding spherical consists of an acceleration of $70M from Stellantis (STLA) beneath the strategic funding settlement entered into earlier this yr, with $55M remaining obtainable beneath that facility.
“The dedication from Stellantis has been unmatched, from its foresight to supply the manufacturing experience and capital wanted to speed up Archer’s enterprise aims, to the strategic imaginative and prescient and steadfast help from CEO Carlos Tavares and Chief Engineering and Expertise Officer Ned Curic,” famous ACHR.
Archer Aviation (ACHR) additionally stated that it reached an settlement with Boeing (BA) and Wisk to enter into autonomous flight collaboration and settle litigation issues.
“This strategic relationship will leverage every firm’s respective strengths and competencies with the objective of accelerating the commercialization of autonomous flight. This method is a pure extension of Archer’s general technique of focusing its in-house analysis and improvement on the important thing enabling applied sciences that can’t be sourced from the present aerospace provide base, thereby serving to Archer doubtlessly keep away from a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} of spending.”
Shares of Archer Aviation (ACHR) are up greater than 230% on a year-to-date foundation.