トヨタ出資の電動航空機メーカーJoby AviationもSPAC経由で上場か

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Toyota（トヨタ）がリードしたラウンドで5億9000万ドル（約620億円）を獲得してから1年、Uberの空飛ぶタクシー事業を買収してから数カ月後、Joby Aviation（ジョビー・アビエーション）は特別買収目的会社（SPAC）との合併を通じての上場を交渉していると報じられた。このディールによる電動航空機メーカーJoby Aviationの評価額は57億ドル（約5980億円）になるとのことだ。

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このニュースはArcher Aviationの大きなSPACディールに続くものだ。ファイナンシャルタイムズ紙の報道が正確であれば、Joby AviationとArcher Aviationは合計100億ドル（約1兆500億円）近いバリュエーションで近く公開企業となる。

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炭化水素以外のもので動く車両を作っているスタートアップが主役になる時代であり、SPACの大きな波が押し寄せている。

電気自動車メーカーのArrival、Canoo、ChargePoint、Fisker、Lordstown Motors、Proterra、The Lion Electric CompanyはすでにSPACと合併したか、合併の計画を発表した。

そして今、あらゆる形態の交通の電動化に関係する企業はSPACというビークルを通じての上場という波に乗ろうとしている。従来のIPOは課題が多いかもしれないと感じており、しかし資金調達という観点でいつまでもスタートアップのままではいたくないという企業にとって、SPACとの合併は今のところかなり人気となっている手法だ。

Jobyを上場させようとしていると報じられた投資グループは、億万長者のテック起業家で投資家、そしてLinkedIn共同創業者のReid Hoffman（リード・ホフマン）氏と、ゲーム会社Zyngaを創業したMark Pincus（マーク・ピンカス）氏が率いている。

両氏は2020年初めに一緒にSPACのReinvent Technology Partnersを立ち上げた。このペーパーカンパニーは上場し、合併のために6億9000万ドル（約720億円）を調達した。

Jobyが上場するとなれば、トヨタやBaillie Gifford、Intel Capital、 JetBlue Technology Ventures（米国拠点の航空会社の投資部門）、Jobyに1億2500万ドル（約130億円）を投資したUberなどJobyを支援している企業にとって勝ちとなる。

Jobyはすでにフライト600回をこなしたプロトタイプを持っているが、まだ連邦航空局に認証されていない。そしてファイナンシャルタイムズ紙が指摘したように、同社とホフマン氏、ピンカス氏のSPACグループとの取引がうまくいくかはわからない。

この取引は、両氏が設立したSPACへの追加の資金注入を必要とするかもしれない。資金の追加がなければすべてが白紙に戻る。実際、これはおそらくみなさんが今この記事を読んでいる理由の1つだろう。

あらゆる種類の輸送車両を動かしすべての移動手段をカバーする電動化は、投資の間で大流行している。部分的にはこれは投資対象となりそうな環境要素、持続可能性、良いガバナンスを備える企業を見つけるというプレッシャーが機関投資家の間で高まっているためだ。

環境への影響はユナテッド航空のCEOであるScott Kirby（スコット・カービー）氏が、Archer Aviationから10億ドル（約1050億円）分の電動飛行機を購入することについて語ったときに言及した要素だ。このArcherは今週初めにSPACを通じての上場を目指すと発表した。

「Archerとの協業で、ユナイテッド航空はよりクリーンで効率的な交通手段を擁する時だということを航空業界に示しています。正しいテクノロジーを活用して我々は航空機が地球に与えるインパクトを抑制できますが、これを早期に現実のものとする次世代の企業を特定し、そうした企業が飛び立つのをサポートする方法を見つけなければなりません」とカービー氏は述べた。

TechCrunchが先日報じたように、今回の動きは、ゆくゆくはユナイテッド航空の乗客の空港送迎ができるかもしれないという新たなビジネスラインへの投資でもある。ArcherのeVTOL1機を使えば乗客1人のハリウッド-ロサンゼルス国際空港間の移動による二酸化炭素排出量を最大50％減らすことができる、とユナイテッド航空は算出している。

Archerがステルスモードから登場して1年も経たないうちに、SPACとの合併契約とユナイテッド航空からの受注となった。Archerは2018年にAdam Goldstein（アダム・ゴールドステイン）氏とBrett Adcock（ブレット・アドコック）氏が共同創業した。2人はSaaS企業VetteryをAdecco Groupに1億ドル（約105億円）超で売却した。Archerの主要投資家はMarc Lore（マーク・ロア）氏で、同氏は自身の会社Jet.comを2014年にWalmartに33億ドル（約3450億円）で売却し、2021年1月までWalmartのeコマース責任者を務めていた。

EV飛行機投資のブームから取り残されたと心配しているSPAC投資家あるいはベンチャーキャピタリストがいるなら、ご安心を。まだドイツのテックデベロッパーLiliumがいる。そしてもし超音速旅行に関心があるなら、Boomがいつでもいる。

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【原文】

One year after nabbing $590 million from investors led by Toyota, and a few months after picking up Uber’s flying taxi business, Joby Aviation is reportedly in talks to go public in a SPAC deal that would value the electric plane manufacturer at nearly $5.7 billion.

News of a potential deal comes on the heels of another big SPAC transaction in electric planes (for Archer Aviation). If the Financial Times’ reporting is accurate, then that would mean the two will soon be publicly traded at a total value approaching $10 billion.

It’s a heady time for startups making vehicles powered by anything other than hydrocarbons, and the SPAC wave has hit it hard.

Electric car companies Arrival, Canoo, ChargePoint, Fisker, Lordstown Motors, Proterra and The Lion Electric Company are some of the companies that have merged with SPACs — or announced plans to — in the past year.

Now it appears that any company that has anything to do with the electrification of any mode of transportation is going to get waved onto the runway for a public listing through a special purpose acquisition company vehicle — a wildly popular route at the moment for companies that might find traditional IPO listings more challenging to carry out but would rather not stay in startup mode when it comes to fundraising.

The investment group reportedly taking Joby to the moon! out to public markets is led by the billionaire tech entrepreneurs and investors Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, and Mark Pincus, who launched the casual gaming company, Zynga.

Together the two men had formed Reinvent Technology Partners, a special purpose acquisition company, earlier in 2020. The shell company went public and raised $690 million to make a deal.

Any transaction for Joby would be a win for the company’s backers, including Toyota, Baillie Gifford, Intel Capital, JetBlue Technology Ventures (the investment arm of the U.S.-based airline) and Uber, which invested $125 million into Joby.

Joby has a prototype that has already taken 600 flights, but has yet to be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration. And the success of any transaction between the company and Hoffman and Pincus’ SPAC group is far from a sure thing, as the FT noted.

The deal would require an additional capital infusion into the SPAC that the two men established, and without that extra cash, all bets are off. Indeed, that is probably one reason why anyone is reading about this now.

Alternatively powered transportation vehicles of all stripes and covering all modes of travel are the rage right now among the public investment crowd. Part of that is due to rising pressure among institutional investors to find companies with an environmental, sustainability and good governance thesis that they can invest in, and part of that is due to tailwinds coming from government regulations pushing for the decarbonization of fleets in a bid to curb global warming.

The environmental impact is one chief reason United chief executive Scott Kirby cited when speaking about his company’s $1 billion purchase order from the electric plane company that actually announced it would be pursuing a public offering through a SPAC earlier this week.

“By working with Archer, United is showing the aviation industry that now is the time to embrace cleaner, more efficient modes of transportation,” Kirby said. “With the right technology, we can curb the impact aircraft have on the planet, but we have to identify the next generation of companies who will make this a reality early and find ways to help them get off the ground.”

It’s also an investment in a possible new business line that could eventually shuttle United passengers to and from an airport, as TechCrunch reported earlier. United projected that a trip in one of Archer’s eVTOL aircraft could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 50% per passenger traveling between Hollywood and Los Angeles International Airport.

The agreement to go public and the order from United Airlines comes less than a year after Archer Aviation came out of stealth. Archer was co-founded in 2018 by Adam Goldstein and Brett Adcock, who sold their software-as-a-service company Vettery to The Adecco Group for more than $100 million. The company’s primary backer was Marc Lore, who sold his company Jet.com to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion. Lore was Walmart’s e-commerce chief until January.

For any SPAC investors or venture capitalists worried that they’re now left out of the EV plane investment bonanza, take heart! There’s still the German tech developer Lilium. And if an investor is interested in supersonic travel, there’s always Boom.

（文：Jonathan Shieber、翻訳：Nariko Mizoguchi）

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