By Chris Forrester The fastest way for a ‘start up’ to exit is usually via a merger or acquisition. The panel at the Smallsat Symposium in Mountain View on February […]
Funding
Raising cash should be easier in 2025
By Chris Forrester More than one panelist during the February 4 opening day of the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View has talked about the need to raise cash. The topic […]
EnSilica awarded £10.3m funding from UK Space Agency Award
EnSilica, a chip maker of mixed signal ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), has been awarded £10.38 million (€12.4m) funding over the next three years from the UK Space Agency for […]
ISS National Lab announces up to $650,000 in funding for tech advancement in LEO
The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory is soliciting flight concepts for technology advancement that uses the space-based environment of the orbiting laboratory. This solicitation, “Technology Advancement and Applied Research Leveraging […]
ICEYE closes million$$ extension to existing growth funding round
ICEYE has closed a $65 million extension of the company’s earlier growth funding round of $93 million that was announced in April 2024. The funding round extension included participation from […]
Pixxel raises million$$ in additional funding for hyperspectral imaging solutions
Pixxel, a U.S.-India-based space technology, has closed $24 million in additional funding as part of the firm’s Series B round — this new investment brings the total Series B funding […]
FibreCoat secures million€€ from NewSpace Capital + other investors in Series B raise
FibreCoat has recently raised close to €20 million from NewSpace Capital, Goose Capital, Nova Saint-Gobain, 212 NexT, Otto Krahn New Business, Convergent Ventures and TiE in its Series B raise. […]
Forrester’s Digest: UK to test-remove OneWeb satellite from space
Japan’s UK subsidiary of its Astroscale is getting itself ready with its Critical Design Review of a ‘space tug’ which is planned to remove a OneWeb satellite from its low […]
Starfish Space secures million$$ in new funding to advance Otter development
Starfish Space has raised $29 million in a new funding round led by Shield Capital. Major participants in the round include new investors Point72 Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, Aero X […]
OQ Technology secures convertible investment as part of Series-B round
OQ Technology has secured a convertible loan investment as part of its Series-B round — the investment is from the newly-established Luxembourg Space Sector Development fund (LSSD) which is co-led […]