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| 11.03.2026 | Lux Aeterna Secures $10M to Revolutionize Reusable Space Infrastructure | Lux Aeterna, a Denver-based space infrastructure firm, secured $10 million in seed funding. This capital propels development of its flagship Delphi reusable satellite platform. Delphi is designed for reliable orbital reentry and rapid refur... |
| 10.03.2026 | Lux Aeterna: $10 Million Seed Round For Reusable Satellite Platform And Reentry Infrastructure | Lux Aeterna, a next-generation space infrastructure company focused on transforming orbital logistics through reentry and redeployment capabilities, announced that it has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round.
The round... |
| 10.03.2026 | Lux Aeterna Secures $10M in Seed Funding | Lux Aeterna, a Denver, CO-based space infrastructure company, raised $10M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Konvoy, with participation from Decisive Point, Cubit Capital, Wave Function, Space Capital, Dynamo Ventures, and Channel 39.
Th... |
| 07.03.2026 | Vast Secures $500M for Commercial Space Stations: Fueling Orbital Future | Vast secured $500M, led by Balerion Space Ventures, to accelerate its commercial Haven space station development. The Long Beach, CA company builds orbital outposts for continuous human presence. This capital expands operations, workforce, ... |
| 05.03.2026 | Vast: $500 Million Raised For Commercial Haven Space Station Development | Vast, a space station developer focused on enabling long-term human presence in orbit, announced that it has raised $500 million in new funding to accelerate the production of its Haven space stations and advance the commercial low-Earth or... |
| 05.03.2026 | Vast Raises $500M in New Funding | Vast, a Long Beach, CA-based company developing space stations, raised $500M in funding.
The round was led by Balerion Space Ventures with participation from IQT, Qatar Investment Authority, Mitsui and Co., MUFG, Nikon Corporation, Stellar ... |
| 24.01.2026 | Breaking Silicon Walls: Neurophos Fuels AI's Future with $110M for Photonic Chips | Neurophos raised $110 million in Series A funding, now totaling $118 million. The company pioneers photonic AI chips. It develops Optical Processing Units (OPUs) for advanced AI inference. OPUs leverage light-based computation, outperformin... |
| 22.01.2026 | Neurophos: $110 Million Series A Raised To Bring Exaflop-Scale Photonic AI Chips To Data Centers | Neurophos has raised $110 million in an oversubscribed Series A round to accelerate the commercialization of its photonic AI chip technology, positioning the Austin-based company to push beyond the power and scalability limits facing today’... |
| 22.01.2026 | Neurophos Raises $110M in Series A Funding | Neurophos, an Austin, TX-based company which specializes in photonic AI chip technology, has raised $110M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Gates Frontier, with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Carbon Direct Capita... |
| 22.01.2026 | Chip startup Neurophos gets $110M to replace electrons with photons and accelerate AI compute
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The developing pace of the space industry is rapidly changing through new technologies, privately organized launches, and commercialization, which make it an active space market in the global market. However, o... |
| 18.07.2025 | Investing in Space: The market’s taking off | The space sector showed signs of heating up in the second quarter despite global uncertainty triggered by U.S. trade tariffs.
Space startups kept drawing in funds over the April-June stretch, riding the high of “sustained interest” in defen... |
| 11.07.2025 | LGND raises $9M to help AI models analyze geospatial data
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Cookies | LGND AI Inc. has raised $9 million in funding to enhance its namesake cloud platform, which helps artificial intelligence models process satellite images.
The startup announced the seed round on Thursday. It was led by Javelin Venture Partn... |
| 10.07.2025 | LGND Raises $9M in Funding | LGND AI, Inc., a NYC-based company building new ways for people and AI to interact with Earth data, raised $9m in financing.
The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from AENU, Space Capital, Overture, Ridgeline, MC... |
| 11.04.2024 | Fundraising by space startups skyrockets as govt spending remains high: Report | Funding for space startups more than doubled in the first quarter as government spending remained robust setting the stage for the space economy to grow stronger, venture capital firm Space Capital said on Thursday. |
| 19.07.2023 | Umbra is a Silicon Valley outsider — they prefer it that way | Umbra co-founder Gabe Dominocielo’s last name is roughly translated from the Latin as “lord of the skies.” It’s a fitting title for the head of a satellite imagery company — but in a recent interview with TechCrunch, he joked that his last ... |
| 21.04.2023 | Финансирование космических компаний сократилось до уровня 2015 года | Инвестиции в космическую коммерческую отрасль сократились на 53% до $2,2 млрд в первом квартале 2023 года в сравнении с последними тремя месяцами 2022 года, следует из отчёта венчурного фонда Space Capital. Это самые низкие квартальные пока... |
| 20.04.2023 | Инвестиции в космические компании упали до минимума с 2015 года | Объем инвестиций в космические компании по итогам первого квартала года составил $2,2 млрд, следует из отчета венчурного фонда Space Capital. Это на 53% ниже, чем в предыдущем квартале. Кроме того, это самый низкий показатель с 2015 года.
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| 20.04.2023 | Инвестиции в космические компании упали до минимума с 2015 года | Объем инвестиций в космические компании по итогам первого квартала года составил $2,2 млрд, следует из отчета венчурного фонда Space Capital. Это на 53% ниже, чем в предыдущем квартале. Кроме того, это самый низкий показатель с 2015 года.
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| 20.04.2023 | US Space Industry Investments Plummet by 53%, Lowest Since 2015 | John Lopez, Tech Times 20 April 2023, 11:04 am
The US space industry has suffered a significant setback, as investments in the sector fell by 53% to $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2023, the lowest funding quarter since 2015, Reuters r... |
| 19.01.2023 | Private investment in space dropped 58% last year, even with SpaceX, Anduril monster raises | Private investment in the space economy dropped by 58% in 2022 compared to the year prior, with macroeconomic headwinds battering private and public markets, according to new analysis from New York-based Space Capital.
But while 2023 is sha... |
| 19.01.2023 | Private Space Investment Plunged 58% in 2022, Despite SpaceX's Triumph | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 19 January 2023, 01:01 pm
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 05: In this handout photo provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon s... |
| 08.12.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Grocery startup Oda bags $158m, new rounds for alt meat & restaurant tech | Despite losing its unicorn status, Norwegian online grocer Oda bagged a sizable round this week. Restaurant tech company MarginEdge and AgFunder portfolio company Black Sheep Foods also raised money, as did forest tech platform Gaia AI and ... |
| 07.12.2022 | Gaia raises $3M to bring more science to the art of forestry | It’s all good and well to sell a carbon credit, but if you chop down the tree representing that credit as soon as the money hits the bank account, it’s not exactly a win for the planet. Gaia AI is building a tool that can be used for that, ... |
| 14.11.2022 | Playground, Seraphim and Root VCs talk funding trends at TC Sessions: Space | It’s no secret that VC spending in 2022 did not take a page from the wild funding spree that was 2021. This year’s more measured approach has had a cooling effect — particularly on space-related startups.
In Q3 alone, investments in 79 spac... |
| 24.10.2022 | Max Q: The ghost in the machine | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Disrupt is finally behind us, which can only mean one thing: We are officially counting down to TC’s Space event in December! Learn more here. In this issue:
Kayhan Space presents at Disrupt
Report: Investme... |
| 18.10.2022 | Investment in space continues to drop, but some sectors more resilient than others, report finds | Private investment in space continues to be battered by larger macro-economic trends, like high interest rates and inflation, but not all sectors of the space industry are affected equally, a new report from New York-based VC firm Space Cap... |
| 03.02.2022 | Eye in the sky ICEYE lands $136 million in new funding round | Designer, maker, and operator of the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) constellation, ICEYE, has raised $136 million in a Series D funding round. The new capital will be used to drive the further development of the company’s na... |
| 17.01.2022 | Scoop: Project collaboration platform Matidor raises $1.85M seed round | Matidor co-founders Sean Huang and Vincent Lam
Matidor, a platform that consultants and engineers use to collaborate and keep track of projects and geospatial data, has raised USD $1.85 million, the company tells Vancouver Tech Journal.
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| 18.10.2021 | Max Q: Steve Wozniak and Alex Fielding want to map space junk | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. It was a busy week for the space industry! Keep reading for news from Astra, Blue Origin, Varda Space and more.
Tips, opinions, criticism, thoughts? Email me at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com or find me on Twitte... |
| 14.10.2021 | В 2021 году инвестиции в космические компании превысили рекордные $10 млрд | Согласно отчету нью-йоркской венчурной компании Space Capital, частные инвестиции в космические проекты в III квартале составили $3,9 млрд, а в 2021 году — $10,3 млрд. Это стало новым рекордом для ежегодного инвестирования в космические ком... |
| 07.10.2021 | The ocean is a $100tln market opportunity | Tony Chen is co-founder and CEO of Manolin, a software and data analytics company that builds disease-detection models for aquaculture, based in Denver, Colorado.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not ... |
| 19.04.2021 | Op-ed | Canada’s space sector set for a relaunch | On April 1, MDA, Canada’s leading space technology company, best known for developing the robotic Canadarm used on the International Space Station, raised 400 million Canadian dollars ($320 million) in its initial public offering on the Tor... |
| 16.04.2021 | Larger late-stage deals dominating space investment landscape | TAMPA, Fla. — Private investors deployed another $1.9 billion in SpaceX, OneWeb and other space infrastructure companies in the first three months of 2021, according to data from New York-based Space Capital.
The company, which invests in e... |
| 25.01.2021 | Investment in space companies put at record $8.9 billion in 2020 despite Covid | Private investment in space companies last year set a new annual record with $8.9 billion, according to a report on Monday by New York-based firm Space Capital.
“Despite expectations that [space] Infrastructure would be hardest hit by the p... |
| 15.09.2020 | GHGSat raises 39.5M CAD in Series B funding | GHGSat was founded in 2011 by Stephane Germain. It offers monitoring services for industrial services in oil and gas, power generation, mining, waste management and agriculture divisions, using satellites and aircraft sensors to measure and... |
| 06.08.2020 | Location data start-up dataPlor nabs USD 4M to expand across Latin America | Los Angeles, CA-based location data start-up known as dataPlor raises USD 4 million capital investment in a funding round on 29th July, 2020. The participants involved in the round were FF Venture Capital, Quest Venture Partners and Space C... |
| 20.07.2020 | Space sector investment shows signs of strength in Q2 despite COVID-19 pandemic | The most recent quarterly report from specialist investor Space Capital shows that despite obvious impacts stemming from the current coronavirus pandemic, investment in general in space startups didn’t suffer as much as some predicted — and... |
| 23.06.2020 | 11 top VCs discuss the future of New York startups | New York City was an initial U.S. hotspot for the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s also one of the most expensive cities in the world — so you might think startups would be anxious to leave.
However, when we surveyed a number of New York-based v... |
| 16.06.2020 | What’s next for space tech? 9 VCs look to the future | Space is a special category of VC investment in the best of times — and the COVID-19 pandemic is not the best of times.
Still, investors focused on and familiar with space see a lot of opportunity in the market, regardless of any prevailing... |
| 11.06.2020 | 9 top space tech VCs on the market’s opportunities and challenges | Space is a relatively niche area of tech investing in the best of times, but COVID-19 has redrawn the landscape. What do investors who are active in this sector think about what’s changed, what hasn’t and what’s coming in the future?
We cau... |
| - | Investment in space companies hit record $4.5 billion in the second quarter, report says | Private investment in space companies hit $4.5 billion in the second quarter, according to a report by New York-based firm Space Capital.
“This was the largest quarter on record for space infrastructure investment, despite only two space co... |
| - | Private investment in space firms shows ‘signs of stabilization’ in Q2 after steady decline | Private investment in space companies, especially from venture capital, showed “signs of stabilization” in the second quarter after steady declines over the past year, according to a new report.
The report by New York-based Space Capital on... |
| - | Космические стартапы с российскими корнями | Не секрет, что инвестиции в частные космические компании на подъеме. Причем уже как лет 10. Стало любопытно посмотреть, как в этой индустрии представлен небезызвестный «русский след». Сделали небольшую подборку проектов с русскоязычными осн... |
| - | Space companies brought in $1.9 billion during the first quarter, led by SpaceX’s ‘mega-round’: Report | Investors poured $1.9 billion into space infrastructure companies—those typically associated with the industry—in the first quarter of 2021, according to a report by New York-based firm Space Capital, continuing last year’s record-breaking ... |
| - | Space investment rebounded in 2023 with heavy sector M&A, report says | Investment in the space sector bounced back last year, with $12.5 billion raised in 2023, according to a report Tuesday by New York-based Space Capital.
That was well above last year’s $9.3 billion raised but still below the $15.3 billion b... |
| - | Ex-NASA chief envisions a future where humans go to space stations owned by corporations | The future of space innovation will be controlled by corporations, ex-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNBC on Tuesday.
Bridenstine’s remarks came as Blue Origin launched its first crewed spaceflight Tuesday morning, with its founder... |
| - | Mark Cuban-backed Relativity Space raised $650 million above a $4 billion valuation to 3D-print rockets | Tim Ellis, the chief executive and cofounder of Relativity Space, said hundreds of disruptive businesses were needed to make Mars a reality. Relativity Space This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and ... |
| - | Investment in space companies hit record $14.5 billion in 2021, report says | Private investment in space companies last year set a record, according to a report Tuesday by New York-based firm Space Capital.
Space infrastructure companies received $14.5 billion of private investment in 2021, a new annual record that ... |
| - | Investment in space companies exceeds $10 billion this year, a new annual record | Private investment in space companies hit $3.9 billion in the third quarter, according to a report this week by New York-based firm Space Capital.
That propels this year to a new annual record of $10.3 billion, exceeding the record of $9.8 ... |
| - | Eye in the sky ICEYE lands $136 million in new funding round | Designer, maker, and operator of the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) constellation, ICEYE, has raised $136 million in a Series D funding round. The new capital will be used to drive the further development of the company’s na... |
