Joby Aviation, Inc. JOBY

What this company does

Joby Aviation has spent more than a decade designing and testing a piloted, all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi which it intends to operate in cities around the world. The company intends to operate air taxi services both directly and through strategic partnerships, while also pursuing aircraft sales to distributors and expanding into defense and other specialized markets. The Joby eVTOL is being designed to transport a pilot and up to four passengers, or a targeted payload of up to 1,000 pounds, at speeds of up to 200 mph. The company is in the process of certifying its aircraft with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and has also begun working with regulators in other countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Joby Aero, Inc. (Legacy Joby) was incorporated in Delaware on November 21, 2016. In August 2021, Legacy Joby and Reinvent Technology Partners, a Cayman Islands exempted company and special purpose acquisition company, completed a merger and other transactions pursuant to which a subsidiary of RTP was merged with and into Legacy Joby and Legacy Joby survived as a wholly owned subsidiary of RTP. As of January 31, 2026, the company had 2,559 employees, none of whom are represented by a labor union.

Written from the business description in Joby Aviation, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.