Wheels Up

Aviation · New York City, United States · Founded 2013 · Public via SPAC 2021

Revolutionary membership-based private aviation company that reduces the upfront cost to fly privately while providing an unrivaled lifestyle platform

Valuation $693M

Revenue $736M

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News Surf Air Mobility raises $21.6M loan, restructures debt to cut dilution Jul 1, 2026

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Wheels Up's talent

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Employees mapped 1,013 incl. 3 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 33 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 5 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

11 investors on Wheels Up's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage

Baron Davis

Serena Ventures

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Krillion Ventures

Owen Van Natta

Alpaca VC

Series B+ 6 investors entered at this stage

Fidelity Investments

T. Rowe Price

NEA

Franklin Templeton Investments

Alumni Ventures

Durable Capital Partners

Wheels Up mafia

Startups founded by Wheels Up alumni

Former Wheels Up employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Odie Pet InsuranceEst. 2019

MTMiles ThorsonUnited States

Signal score84

QwotedEst. 2019

MKMatthew KnellerUnited States

Signal score82

Cred.aiEst. 2016

David J. AdelmanUnited States

Signal score71

LectriumEst. 2021

Peter BarbaUnited States

Signal score68

TellTailEst. 2021

Brittany BrodyUnited States

Signal score47

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Global footprint

Where Wheels Up has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

4 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States99.3%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.1%

🏳️ Barbados0.1%

🇫🇷 France0.1%

4 countries shown

Web traffic by country

51K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States83.1%

🇨🇦 Canada6.9%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.1%

🇪🇸 Spain2.7%

🇮🇳 India2.4%

Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Wheels Up

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Wheels Up on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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