Cascade Space

Summary

About

About Cascade Space

Cascade Space is developing a distributed ground communications network for lunar and deep-space missions. Its architecture uses arrays of smaller commercial antennas that operate together as a larger receiving aperture, creating capacity that can be deployed and expanded in increments. The network is intended to provide telemetry, tracking and command links for spacecraft operating beyond low Earth orbit.

The company’s software coordinates antenna scheduling, signal processing and customer access across the distributed infrastructure. Cascade also offers design tools for evaluating mission link budgets and ground-network requirements before launch. Initial network capacity is planned for 2027, with services aimed at commercial lunar spacecraft, scientific missions and government programmes requiring alternatives to existing public ground networks.

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Funding

Investors

  • Aurelia Foundry - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Garage Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Hawktail - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Karman Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Liquid 2 Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • MGV.VC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Night Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Nova Threshold - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Olive Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Palm Drive Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Pioneer Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • TRAC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Undeterred Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Valkyrie Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24
  • Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-24

Team

  • Jacob Portukalian - Founder - Portukalian founded Cascade Space after the loss of communications with AstroForge’s Odin mission drew him toward deep-space communications infrastructure.
  • Arlen Abraham - Founder

Timeline

Events

  • 2025-07-24 - Funding - Cascade Space raises $5.9M seed round for space communications platform

    The $5.9 million seed round included Nova Threshold, Undeterred Capital, Y Combinator, Karman Ventures, Pioneer Fund and a broader investor syndicate. Cascade said the capital would accelerate Cascade Designer, its software platform for satellite communication-system design and analysis. The company also highlighted its open-source spacelink Python library, which supplies communication-system analysis functions used by the design platform.

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