Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
XF
Xianyin Future discloses three financing rounds totalling hundreds of millions of yuan
- BlueRun, Hillhouse Ventures and Binfu led the angel round, with AgiBot and Trina Solar among strategic participants; Huaying Capital led the pre-Series A.
- The company develops flexible cable-driven arms for orbital refuelling, inspection and deorbiting, with a rendezvous and docking demonstration planned for 2027.
Fortastra closes $30 million Series A for autonomous orbital spacecraft
- Capital will expand spacecraft development and testing and advance autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations.
- The financing follows the Watchdog V0 launch and a manufacturing memorandum with Hadrian for national-security spacecraft.
InspeCity raises ₹1B Pre-Series A for in-space servicing
- Speciale Invest and Ashish Kacholia led the round.
- Antler Elevate, Antler India, Manish Gandhi and Shastra VC also participated.
- The company is developing propulsion, navigation, robotic manipulation, docking and refuelling technologies for orbital missions.
Mingti Technology raises undisclosed angel round
- The Beijing company was established in April 2026.
- Its stated scope includes autonomous in-orbit maintenance, assembly and manufacturing.
Orbit Fab secures more than $25 million in interim financing
- Stride Capital led the interim financing, which closed above $25 million.
- The capital strengthens the balance sheet for customer programs and operational expansion.
- A Series B round opened separately; the interim financing was already secured.
Ubotica raises $11M to scale orbital AI and maritime intelligence
- Act Venture Capital and Greencode Ventures led the round.
- Existing investor Atlantic Bridge also participated.
- Ubotica said the capital would accelerate deployment of its AI-powered maritime-intelligence platform.
Terrafarm raises approximately JPY100M
- Named participants included Yoichiro Imai of Effissimo Capital Management, Yuma Umeda of Medical Note and Tatsuya Suzuki of giftee.
- The company said the capital would strengthen product development as it expanded its services.
- Terrafarm had built its operating base through plant-factory research before the financing.
Dawn Aerospace closes US$25 million Series B
- The financing will expand commercial and operational teams in the United States and Europe.
- Participants include ANA Future Frontier Fund, Mana Ventures, Green Eight Capital, Seven Peak Ventures and existing investors.
- Aurora targets twice-daily flights above the Kármán line in 2027; the Loop refuelling network targets an in-orbit demonstration in 2028.
Katalyst Space raises $12M for NEXUS servicing spacecraft
- Geodesic Capital led the financing, with significant participation from Fortitude Ventures and other investors.
- Capital is directed toward the NEXUS robotic spacecraft and multi-orbit servicing operations including repositioning, repair, refuelling, refitting and assembly.
Lunar Outpost raises $30M Series B for space robotics platforms
- Lunar Outpost raised a $30 million Series B led by Industrious Ventures.
- The company said the capital will accelerate robotics and mobility platforms across a multi-year lunar and cislunar mission manifest.
- Lunar Outpost has eight contracted missions and is investing in Starweave autonomous swarm software and Stargate C3 infrastructure.
True Anomaly raises $650M in Series D financing
- Eclipse and Riot Ventures co-led the equity round, joined by new investors Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, The Private Shares Fund and VanEck alongside returning backers.
- The company plans a dozen missions over 18 months, additional LEO and GEO demonstrations, and deliveries of Jackal and Mosaic into U.S. Space Force programmes.
- The financing supports expansion from 250 employees at year-end 2025 to more than 500 by year-end 2026, alongside higher spacecraft and software delivery capacity.
Turion Space announces $75M-plus Series B for orbital operations platform
- Existing investors Aurelia Foundry, Forward Deployed VC and FoundersX participated alongside Center15 Capital, Magnetar, HOF Capital and Industrious Ventures.
- The capital supports a fivefold planned increase in spacecraft production capacity, from eight vehicles per year toward forty.
- Turion is expanding its DROID fleet, non-Earth imaging coverage and Starfire autonomous tasking and constellation-control software.
Planet Ventures invests $100K in General Astronautics
- Planet Ventures announced a US$100,000 investment on March 31, 2026 at a US$40 million post-money valuation.
- General Astronautics was founded in 2025 and joined the Winter 2026 Y Combinator batch and NVIDIA Inception programme.
- Its robots are intended to automate orbital laboratory work including pipetting, sample preparation, plate handling and reagent mixing without crew support.
Fortastra discloses over $8M seed financing at public launch
- Generational Partners, Wave Function Ventures, Bloomberg Beta and Forward Deployed VC participated in the seed financing.
- Proceeds support spacecraft development, engineering recruitment and testing and analysis capabilities in Southern California.
ICEYE closes EUR 150M Series E at EUR 2.4B valuation
- Participants included A.P. Moller Holding, Bpifrance, Vinci of BGK Group, RiO Family Office and a group of Finnish institutional investors.
- ICEYE plans to use the primary capital to expand its SAR constellation and accelerate sovereign satellite systems, sensing and data-intelligence services.
- The company had launched 62 satellites and targeted an average production rate of one satellite per week in the following year.
Icarus Robotics raises $6.1M seed round to scale the robotic labor force for space
- Icarus announced a $6.1 million seed round to advance embodied-AI robotic systems for orbital labor tasks.
- The company framed the raise around building dexterous mobile robots to handle routine, hazardous, and time-consuming work in space at lower cost than human labor.
- The funding supported Icarus' push toward a future ISS demonstration and broader commercial space-station robotics deployments.
Rendezvous Robotics closes $3 million Pre-Seed round
- Aurelia Foundry and 8090 Industries led the round.
- ATX Venture Partners and Mana Ventures participated.
- The company is commercialising technology developed through eight years of research and three flight experiments.
NOVI Space receives VIPC investment for onboard AI compute and satellite data platform
- The ongoing seed round also attracted Spirit Electronics Ventures, Tyger River Capital and AIN Ventures.
- VIPC previously provided a commercialization grant that helped bridge NOVI between Air Force Research Lab SBIR phases.
- NOVI had launched a satellite on SpaceX Transporter-12 in January 2025 and was developing its VISTAsat data platform.
Space Forge closes GBP 22.6 million Series A
- The NATO Innovation Fund led the completed Series A.
- World Fund, NSSIF and the British Business Bank were among the strategic backers.
- Space Forge allocated the capital to ForgeStar-2 development and the ForgeStar-1 orbital demonstration programme.
NOVI Space secures AIN Ventures seed investment for space-edge processing
- AIN Ventures invested in NOVI Space as part of the company's seed round.
- NOVI described the funding as supporting space-edge processing and AI-enabled Earth observation services.
- The company is developing smart satellites and onboard compute to process sensor data in orbit before downlink.
Spaceium closes $6.3M seed round led by Initialized Capital
- Initialized Capital led the oversubscribed $6.3 million seed round.
- Spaceium was developing long-duration propellant storage and automated fuel-transfer infrastructure for spacecraft.
- The company planned to use the financing to advance a product-capability demonstration later in 2025.
ICEYE closes $65M mixed debt-and-equity financing extension
- Funds managed by Solidium, BlackRock and Seraphim participated in the extension.
- ICEYE disclosed that the completed $65 million package combined debt and equity but did not disclose the component split.
- The financing brought ICEYE’s 2024 capital raised to $158 million and supported further investment in its SAR constellation and intelligence platform.
Inversion raises $44M Series A for Arc reentry vehicle
- Inversion raised a $44 million Series A to build its Arc autonomous reentry vehicle.
- Spark Capital and Adjacent led the round, with Lockheed Martin Ventures, Kindred Ventures and Y Combinator investing.
- The capital supported Arc vehicle development, hiring and a new facility for reentry-vehicle manufacturing.
GITAI raises additional $15.5M in Series B Extension
- • GITAI raised an additional US$15.5 million in October 2024 as part of its Series B Extension round.
- • This funding followed US$30 million raised in May 2023 and US$15 million in August 2023, bringing the total Series B Extension to US$60.5 million.
- • The lead investor in this round was Maezawa Fund Inc., established by Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa.
D-Orbit completes EUR 150M Series C final close
- Existing investors included CDP Venture Capital, Seraphim Space Investment Trust, Indaco Venture Partners, Neva SGR and Primo Ventures.
- New investors included Avantgarde, Iberis Capital, the EIC Fund, Phaistos Investment Fund and Terna Forward.
- The capital supported global operations, in-orbit servicing and space-cloud-computing development.
Starpath Robotics raises $12M Seed
- Starpath Robotics completed a Seed financing of $12M.
- The financing was announced on 2024-08-20 in USD.
- Starpath Robotics develops infrastructure systems for sustained operations on the Moon and Mars.
Basalt raises $3.5M seed round for spacecraft OS
- Initialized Capital led the round.
- Basalt said the capital supported team growth, operations expansion and development of Dispatch for spacecraft fleets.
- The capital supports commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows as Basalt moves from product development toward broader commercial use.
Albedo raises $35 million Series A-1 led by Standard Investments
- The financing brought Albedo's total funding to $97 million.
- Booz Allen Ventures, Cubit Capital, Bill Perkins, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Shield Capital, Initialized Capital and Y Combinator participated.
- The capital supports commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows as Albedo moves from product development toward broader commercial use.
D-Orbit raises €100M in an initial Series C close at an approximately $500M valuation
- D-Orbit raised €100 million, reported as about $110 million, in the initial Series C close.
- Reporting placed the company valuation at approximately $500 million.
- The later €150 million final close is the cumulative total of the same Series C, not a second additive round.
Orbit Fab closes $28.5 million Series A
- 8090 Industries led the $28.5 million Series A round.
- Stride Capital, Industrious Ventures, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Tribe Capital and other investors participated.
- Orbit Fab planned to expand RAFTI production and integration and deploy fuel infrastructure across GEO, LEO and VLEO.
ICEYE closes USD 136 million Series D
- Seraphim Space led the completed Series D.
- BAE Systems, Kajima Ventures and multiple existing and new investors participated.
- ICEYE said the capital would expand its satellite fleet, analytics services and Natural Catastrophe Insights offering.
Orbit Fab closes financing above $10 million
- Asymmetry Ventures led the financing, which closed above $10 million.
- Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin Ventures, SpaceFund and other investors participated.
- The capital supports adoption and commercialization of on-orbit refueling services.
HEO Robotics raises seed capital for HEO Inspect
- David Harding led the seed financing round.
- HEO said HEO Inspect was already live in beta and used by customers.
- The capital supports commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows as HEO Robotics moves from product development toward broader commercial use.
Astroscale closes $51 million Series E
- aSTART led the $51 million Series E, with Hulic, I-NET, Shimizu and SPARX Space Frontier Fund among the investors.
- The close brought Astroscale's stated cumulative capital raised to $191 million.
- Astroscale said the financing would support debris-removal and on-orbit servicing technology, business development and policy work.