Veille Aéronautique

Airbus has declared its new Silicon Valley-based $150 million venture capital fund and innovation centre to be fully operational.   The objective of the Airbus Ventures fund is identifying and investing in “visionary entrepreneurs in the global aerospace ecosystem,” says the manufacturer.   It has already made an unspecified investment in an Arizona company, Local Motors, which has expertise in the field of micro-factories. It will use funds from Airbus Ventures to set up a micro-factories and laboratories…