Alexander Zosel is a co-founder of Volocopter. He is a childhood friend of co-founder Stephan Wolf. He joined the project in 2011, when it ran through Wolf's firm Syntern GmbH, which was later renamed e-volo GmbH.
The VC1 made its first flight on 21 October 2011. In 2013 the company raised €500,000 on the Seedmatch crowdfunding platform in 2 hours and 35 minutes, a European record at the time. On 30 March 2016 Zosel flew the VC200.
Volocopter held a demo flight at Marina Bay in Singapore in October 2019, flew in Rome in October 2022 and flew the VoloCity in New York in November 2023.
The company filed for insolvency on 30 December 2024. In March 2025 Diamond Aircraft, part of the Wanfeng group, took it over.