Seraphim Space

Seraphim Space, based in London, is a venture capital firm focused on financing early and growth-stage companies in the global space ecosystem. Founded in 2006, the firm targets series A investments in various sectors, including space technology, communications, healthcare technology, and energy exploration. With a strong background and extensive experience in venture capital, Seraphim Space has invested in over 180 businesses, returning significant value to its shareholders. The firm operates specialized funds, such as the Seraphim Global Space Stars Fund, which emphasizes investments in commercial products and space exploration. By leveraging its network of leading global corporates and governmental agencies in the space sector, Seraphim Space aims to create meaningful value for its portfolio companies, assisting them throughout their growth cycle with resources for market entry, partnerships, and capital.

Mark Boggett

Managing Partner

James Bruegger

Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner

Anthony Clarke

Managing Partner

Jeffrey Crusey

VC Lead

Rob Desborough

General Partner

Kit Hunter Gordon

Chairman and Managing Partner

Candace Johnson

Partner

Lewis Alun Jones

Associate

Michael Jones

Managing Partner

Matt O'Connell

Managing Partner

Andre Ronsoehr

Partner

R. Gerald Turner

Managing Partner

25 past transactions

Quadsat

Series A in 2023
QuadSAT, based in Horsens, Denmark, specializes in VSAT solutions and research and development within the satellite service industry. The company offers a comprehensive range of services, including preventative maintenance, upgrades, and new installations for Ku, C-band, and TVRO systems in both maritime and terrestrial applications. In addition to technical services, QuadSAT provides consultation, auditing, surveying, and project management to ensure efficient and reliable communication networks for its clients. The company emphasizes innovation by incorporating advanced technologies into its offerings, particularly through its development of a portable airborne antenna testing system that leverages drone technology. This system enables high-precision measurements and facilitates diverse testing scenarios for antenna manufacturers and satellite operators, providing a cost-effective and flexible alternative for operational needs.

Voyager Space

Private Equity Round in 2023
Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. is a holding company that focuses on acquiring and operating firms within the space exploration sector. Founded in 2019 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company aims to consolidate expertise and resources across various segments of the aerospace industry, including aerospace engineering, satellite manufacturing, propulsion systems, and launch services. By integrating these capabilities, Voyager Space seeks to create a vertically integrated organization that can effectively support a wide range of missions in space exploration and scientific discovery. Its approach allows commercial space companies to enhance their contributions to the broader goals of exploration and development.

ReOrbit

Seed Round in 2022
ReOrbit develops technology for reusable and modular microsatellite platform (50 - 150 kg) making space sustainable and affordable. We are a startup based in Finland and provide complete end to end solutions for your space missions.

Opteran

Venture Round in 2022
Opteran Technologies Limited designs and develops Opteran, an AI system modeled on honeybee brains. Its platform enables computer vision, sensing, object detection and avoidance, SLAM navigation, and machine decision making. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

Ubotica

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of semi-autonomous satellite systems designed to deliver real-time insights from space-based systems directly to users. The company provides technical expertise in the areas of computer vision and machine learning in embedded systems for several different market segments including space, IoT, Industry, and biomedical, enabling clients to get maximum output from satellites.

Pixxel

Series A in 2022
Pixxel is a company that manufactures remote sensing satellites, providing valuable data on various resources such as minerals and water on the Moon, Mars, and asteroid belts. Founded in 2018 by students from BITS Pilani, an Indian university, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru, India. Pixxel's technology aims to contribute to advancements in space exploration and resource management by delivering high-resolution satellite imagery and data analysis.

ICEYE

Series D in 2022
ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

ICEYE

Venture Round in 2021
ICEYE Oy provides real-time access to imagery through optical imaging technology. It enables users to monitor illegal fishing, oil spills, storm damage, and forest growth; monitor crops growth, storm damages, and pest movements; map other planets for resources and ensure exploration safety; monitor flood damage, receive real-time mapping for aid activities, and conduct maritine search and rescue; and monitor port or storage activity, monitor sea ice and icebergs, track pirate vessels, and view highway activity. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

Astroscale

Series F in 2021
Astroscale Holdings Inc. engages in the development of technologies to remove orbital debris. It offers services, such as end-of-life service by Astroscale (ELSA), a spacecraft retrieval service for satellite operators; and active debris removal (ADR). It also designs and manufactures the lunar dream capsule which gives people a chance to send their names into space. Astroscale Holdings Inc. was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with additional offices in Harwell, United Kingdom; and Singapore.

HawkEye 360

Series D in 2021
HawkEye 360, Inc. is a data analytics company specializing in radio frequency (RF) mapping through its commercial satellite constellation. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, the company focuses on identifying, processing, and geolocating a wide range of RF signals. Its services include maritime domain awareness and spectrum mapping, which are utilized by various commercial, government, and international clients. The insights generated by HawkEye 360's platform support applications in maritime monitoring, intelligence gathering, telecommunications, and crisis response, enabling users to address complex challenges effectively. The company has established a strategic partnership with Ursa to enhance its offerings.

ALL.SPACE

Series B in 2021
Isotropic Systems Limited specializes in the design and development of innovative antennas for satellite communications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom, with an additional office in Linthicum, United States, the company targets a diverse clientele, including high-throughput satellite operators, maritime service providers, and the defense industry. The firm is recognized for its groundbreaking advancements in antenna technology, particularly its low-profile, multi-band antennas that feature electronic beam steering. These antennas are engineered for applications in satellite broadcasting, VSAT, microwave communications, and 5G broadband, offering a cost-effective solution without moving parts, thus ensuring stability for mobile environments.

Xona Space Systems

Seed Round in 2021
Xona Space Systems, Inc. is a developer of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satellite solutions, focusing on delivering accurate and secure real-time services. The company offers the Xona Pulsar, which provides a high-power signal from a constellation of low-cost Low Earth Orbiting satellites. This approach aims to enhance availability and location precision for its customers. Established in 2019 and based in San Mateo, California, Xona Space Systems is committed to advancing satellite technology to meet the growing demand for reliable PNT services.

Xona Space Systems

Seed Round in 2021
Xona Space Systems, Inc. is a developer of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satellite solutions, focusing on delivering accurate and secure real-time services. The company offers the Xona Pulsar, which provides a high-power signal from a constellation of low-cost Low Earth Orbiting satellites. This approach aims to enhance availability and location precision for its customers. Established in 2019 and based in San Mateo, California, Xona Space Systems is committed to advancing satellite technology to meet the growing demand for reliable PNT services.

LeoLabs

Series B in 2021
LeoLabs, Inc. builds and operates phased-array radars that provide high resolution data on objects in low earth orbit. The company LeoLabs Collision Avoidance, a ground-breaking platform for automating and modernizing satellite operations. It also provides foundational mapping data and services to mitigate the risks of collisions. The company’s services include rapid orbit determination, early operational support, and ongoing orbit awareness. It serves commercial satellite operators, government regulatory and space agencies, and satellite management services markets. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

ChAI

Seed Round in 2021
ChAI help mitigate commodity price volatility for buyers and sellers of commodities by forecasting their prices using both traditional and alternative data (including satellite and maritime) and the latest in AI techniques over time horizons of one day to one year. Our vision is to provide SME manufacturers with the same price risk mitigation tools that are currently only available to their larger peers. We use state-of-the-art AI methods on a large number of alternative and established data sources in order to make our price predictions on a full cross-section of commodities. We don’t believe in applying AI blindly, which is why we provide confidence limits to our predictions and base our forecasting on the economic theory of supply and demand.

BirdsEyeView

Venture Round in 2021
BirdsEyeView is a B2B2C London based InsurTech operating as a Managing General Agent. Climate change-induced natural disasters are increasing in both frequency and severity. By harnessing satellite imagery, big data, and advanced analytics, we look to revolutionise the global crop insurance market by providing our weather-risk protection.

Opteran

Seed Round in 2020
Opteran Technologies Limited designs and develops Opteran, an AI system modeled on honeybee brains. Its platform enables computer vision, sensing, object detection and avoidance, SLAM navigation, and machine decision making. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

ALL.SPACE

Series A in 2020
Isotropic Systems Limited specializes in the design and development of innovative antennas for satellite communications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom, with an additional office in Linthicum, United States, the company targets a diverse clientele, including high-throughput satellite operators, maritime service providers, and the defense industry. The firm is recognized for its groundbreaking advancements in antenna technology, particularly its low-profile, multi-band antennas that feature electronic beam steering. These antennas are engineered for applications in satellite broadcasting, VSAT, microwave communications, and 5G broadband, offering a cost-effective solution without moving parts, thus ensuring stability for mobile environments.

Xona Space Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Xona Space Systems, Inc. is a developer of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satellite solutions, focusing on delivering accurate and secure real-time services. The company offers the Xona Pulsar, which provides a high-power signal from a constellation of low-cost Low Earth Orbiting satellites. This approach aims to enhance availability and location precision for its customers. Established in 2019 and based in San Mateo, California, Xona Space Systems is committed to advancing satellite technology to meet the growing demand for reliable PNT services.

Vidrona

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Vidrona (a European Space Agency incubated business) is precision predictive energy asset management company that utilises data analysis and analytics to generate insights from data collected using sensors on various automated platforms like UAVs, ground robots, satellites, and even mobile phones. We gather raw data, then process and analyse this data using our proprietary computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms; to furnish actionable reports to the client on our SaaS based software platform, vSense®. In addition, our product allows the clients’ operations managers to better track their maintenance activity. No maintenance task is marked as complete till such time as the client’s maintenance personnel takes a picture of the corrected component using their mobile phones and uploads these images on to vSense®. Our algorithms then analyse these images for fixes, and escalate the issue in case the corrective measures taken aren’t sufficient. Our clients come from industries like Renewable Energy Generation, Power Transmission, Oil & Gas, as well as Water. Through our data analysis and analytics, we are helping our clients usher in a "A New Era For Energy Asset Management"​

AnsuR Technologies AS

Venture Round in 2018
AnsuR, based in Norway & Spain, provides software for mission-critical satellite communication of multimedia content, reducing bandwidth by 99% and increasing efficiency by 100 times.

CyStellar

Venture Round in 2018
Cystellar Nordic AB develops cloud-based platform to provide real-time insights for the insurance, logistics and agriculture sectors. Through its platform, the company aims to improve data services by addressing markets, such as precision agriculture, food safety and traceability, logistics, and predictive maintenance. It also integrates, manages, and secures data from Internet of Things (IoT) ground sensors, aerial surveillance, and satellite imagery. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Linköping, Sweden.

Reconfigure.io

Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Reconfigure.io delivers a breakthrough in compute performance, providing accessible hardware acceleration to cloud developers everywhere, using AWS F1 instances. Their vision is for a really usable service, available to programmers everywhere to dig down into the data handling and timings underlying their applications, to help them write truly concurrent code to drastically improve performance while reducing latency, heat and physical hardware footprint. They are finally solving the problem of how software teams can deliver solutions on reconfigurable hardware.

KisanHub

Venture Round in 2018
KisanHub is a Crop Intelligence Platform designed to enhance decision-making for farmers by providing sophisticated yet user-friendly agronomic insights. The platform facilitates connections between enterprises and their growers through crop-specific applications that deliver in-season advice on pest and disease management, fertilizer application, irrigation management, and yield predictions. By aggregating diverse datasets, KisanHub helps reduce input costs and improve profit margins for farmers. Its technology integrates public and private data, enabling seamless communication across the supply chain and empowering market participants to offer operational and business advisory services. Ultimately, KisanHub aims to improve agricultural outcomes globally, allowing farmers to optimize their practices and yield while minimizing resource use.