AIR AMBULANCE

What AIR AMBULANCE does

AIR AMBULANCE is an Italian air-medical transport company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cologno Monzese, within the Milan metropolitan area. The firm operates as a private for-profit entity with a headcount of 11-50 employees and delivers a specialized service portfolio covering neonatal patient transport, organ transport, emergency medical evacuation, and water rescue. This mix indicates a deliberate positioning around high-acuity, time-critical medical logistics rather than general air ambulance work, with neonatal and organ transport requiring dedicated equipment (incubators, perfusion kits) and crews with pediatric or transplant-coordination credentials.

The company is privately held and operates from its Italian base, with a website registered under airambulance.it. No legal-entity name, ownership structure, parent company, or investor information is disclosed in available sources, and the firmographic record explicitly marks most corporate detail fields as unavailable. The company website returned only a loading/verification message at the time of analysis, preventing direct verification of fleet composition, base locations, certifications (e.g., EURAMI or CAMTS equivalents), or partnerships with hospitals and emergency dispatch authorities.

On the commercial side, AIR AMBULANCE likely generates revenue through a combination of fee-for-service medical transport contracts with Italian hospitals and regional health authorities, private repatriation flights paid by individuals or insurers, and possibly municipal or civil-protection contracts for water rescue work. However, no pricing models, contract structures, customer logos, payer mix, or revenue figures are disclosed in source data, leaving the revenue model largely inferred from the service mix and small headcount. The company does not appear to have raised external funding based on the empty funding rounds record, suggesting growth has been funded organically from operating cash flow.

Name

AIR AMBULANCE

Website

https://airambulance.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AIR AMBULANCE is a privately held Italian air-medical transport company (founded 2007, Cologno Monzese) providing neonatal, organ, emergency, and water rescue services to hospitals, health authorities, and private clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Air Medical Transport Services

NAICS

Nonscheduled Air Transportation (4812), Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation (481219), Ambulance Services (621910)

SIC

Air Transportation, Nonscheduled (4522)

akta.pro primary industry

Air Medical Transport (Helicopter/Fixed-Wing) (HLAFANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Medical Air Transport (Air Ambulance/Patient Transfer) (TLAFABAG), Air Ambulance & Medical Passenger Charter Operators (THABADAK), Ambulance Fleet, Equipment & Logistics Services (HLAFANAN)

Keywords

• Air medical transport
• Emergency medical services
• Neonatal transport
• Organ transport services
• Water rescue services

Headquarters

HQ city

Cologno Monzese

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

AIR AMBULANCE is an air-medical transport company based in Cologno Monzese, Italy. It provides neonatal and organ transport, emergency air-medical transport, and water rescue services. The company operates aircraft and rescue assets to deliver time-critical medical and rescue missions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Neonatal Air Transport
• Organ Transport
• Emergency Air-Medical Transport
• Water Rescue Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Babcock International: Large international operator providing HEMS, fixed-wing air ambulance, and emergency medical services across Europe; competes for the same regional EMS and patient-transfer contracts as AIR AMBULANCE but at substantially greater scale.
• Air Medical Group Holdings (now part of Global Medical Response): Largest U.S. air ambulance platform, operating rotor-wing and fixed-wing medical transport across a national network; representative of the consolidated scale that small European operators must compete against for cross-border contracts.
• PHI Air Medical: Major U.S. helicopter and fixed-wing air medical operator providing scene, interfacility, and specialty (neonatal/organ) transport — comparable in service mix though materially larger in scale.
• International SOS: Global medical assistance and air ambulance provider offering aeromedical evacuation, repatriation, and organ transport as part of a broader travel-risk and corporate-medical services portfolio; comparable customer overlap (insurers, corporations, governments).

Direct peers

• European Air Ambulance: Luxembourg-headquartered fixed-wing air ambulance operator providing worldwide medical repatriation, organ, and neonatal transport — the most direct European counterpart to AIR AMBULANCE's multi-modality air-medical model.
• Air Alliance: German-based air ambulance operator offering worldwide intensive-care patient transport, organ transport, and commercial medical escort services; directly comparable in European medevac scope and customer type.
• REVA Air Ambulance: U.S.-headquartered global air ambulance provider covering neonatal, organ, and emergency medical transport on fixed-wing aircraft; a strong comparably-scaled peer for international patient repatriation economics.
• FAI rent-a-jet: German-based executive charter and air ambulance division operating dedicated medevac missions across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; directly comparable in offering fixed-wing air medical transport to hospitals, insurers, and governments.

Regional players

• Croce Rossa Italiana (Italian Red Cross): Italian public-sector EMS and ambulance operator active in emergency and patient transport; represents the dominant domestic competitor in Italian emergency medical transport tenders.
• Swiss Air-Ambulance (Rega): Swiss helicopter and air ambulance charity providing repatriation and emergency medical transport across the Alpine region; relevant reference point for cross-border Alpine repatriation cases that originate or terminate in northern Italy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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