Matter Intelligence
Seed Round in 2024
Matter Intelligence is a technology company specializing in remote sensing. It develops and deploys advanced sensors that employ hyperspectral imaging, capturing detailed spectral information from light to differentiate between various material properties. The company's innovative platform collects previously unattainable data globally, measuring shape, composition, and temperature with high resolution, akin to having both a telescope and microscope in a single device. This enables businesses to monitor infrastructure and facilitate predictive modeling.
XDLINX Space Labs
Seed Round in 2024
XDLINX Space Labs develops a space research and development platform that commoditizes deep space technology, with the aim of transforming satellite design, manufacturing and launch processes and enabling users to conduct space missions. The company operates in the space technology sector and focuses on driving innovation by making advanced space capabilities more accessible to researchers and operators.
LambdaVision
Venture Round in 2024
LambdaVision designs and develops a retinal implant to restore vision for patients with degenerative retinal diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. The company leverages a protein-based retinal prosthesis that uses bacteriorhodopsin, a light-activated protein, to stimulate retinal cells and help clinicians improve visual function. Founded in 2009 and based in Farmington, Connecticut, LambdaVision focuses on progressing a technology platform aimed at helping individuals with significant vision loss due to RP and AMD.
ATMOS Space Cargo
Seed Round in 2024
ATMOS Space Cargo specializes in developing and manufacturing space capsules for returning cargo from space, facilitating microgravity experiments, and transporting commercial products. Its platform offers re-entry technology and services, enabling reliable and cost-effective delivery solutions for life sciences research, in-space manufacturing, and transportation industries.
HelicitySpace
Seed Round in 2023
HelicitySpace, founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California, focuses on developing advanced propulsion and power technologies to facilitate human expansion into the solar system. The company specializes in its Helicity Drive technology, a scalable pulsed fusion concept that ranges from fusion-augmented electric propulsion to fully ignited reactors. This technology utilizes principles such as magnetic reconnection, plasma plectonemes, and peristaltic magnetic compression to enhance in-space propulsion systems. By offering high-power electric propulsion thrusters and harnessing fusion energy during the exhaust process, HelicitySpace aims to support space exploration initiatives and accelerate their development activities.
Antaris
Seed Round in 2023
Antaris is a software platform provider focused on simplifying the design, simulation, and operation of satellites. The company offers a comprehensive digital space software platform that includes design tools, digital twinning, and open APIs, enabling clients to manage the entire lifecycle of their satellites. With features that encompass complete spacecraft software and mission control, Antaris aims to enhance operational efficiency, reduce time-to-orbit, and lower mission operating costs. Additionally, the platform incorporates a secure space data networking protocol stack, further streamlining satellite operations for its clients.
Manastu Space
Seed Round in 2023
Manastu Space is a space logistics company specializing in in-space refueling, life extension, and deorbiting services. It develops green propulsion technology using hydrogen peroxide-based propellant to reduce debris pollution and enhance safety.
AIRMO
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Airmo is a space technology company focused on measuring greenhouse gas emissions, specifically carbon dioxide and methane. It provides independent data through a constellation of small satellites equipped with advanced light detection and ranging instruments. This innovative technology enables clients to access near real-time data, allowing them to monitor emissions from individual facilities globally. Airmo's solutions aim to enhance transparency and accountability in tracking greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to efforts in environmental sustainability.
ATMOS Space Cargo
Seed Round in 2023
ATMOS Space Cargo specializes in developing and manufacturing space capsules for returning cargo from space, facilitating microgravity experiments, and transporting commercial products. Its platform offers re-entry technology and services, enabling reliable and cost-effective delivery solutions for life sciences research, in-space manufacturing, and transportation industries.
Antaris
Seed Round in 2022
Antaris is a software platform provider focused on simplifying the design, simulation, and operation of satellites. The company offers a comprehensive digital space software platform that includes design tools, digital twinning, and open APIs, enabling clients to manage the entire lifecycle of their satellites. With features that encompass complete spacecraft software and mission control, Antaris aims to enhance operational efficiency, reduce time-to-orbit, and lower mission operating costs. Additionally, the platform incorporates a secure space data networking protocol stack, further streamlining satellite operations for its clients.
INTERSTELLAR LAB
Seed Round in 2022
INTERSTELLAR LAB is focused on creating innovative, environment-controlled pods designed for crop cultivation. The company develops and manufactures advanced bio-farming platforms that serve as regenerative habitats, automatically regulating essential environmental factors such as air, pressure, water, temperature, and humidity. This technology aims to provide optimal conditions for both plants and humans, facilitating the sustainable production of plant-based ingredients. By enabling the agricultural sector to cultivate a diverse range of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants in various locations, INTERSTELLAR LAB supports large health, beauty, and food and beverage companies in sourcing clean, high-quality ingredients. Additionally, the company is also working on developing space-inspired villages on Earth, aligning with its vision of sustainability and innovation in agriculture.
Satellite Vu is a developer of high-resolution thermal imaging satellites designed to monitor the temperature of buildings and infrastructures globally. By utilizing infrared technology to capture heat emissions in near real-time, the company provides valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency, and carbon footprints. This information aids various sectors, including the energy industry, investors, natural disaster responders, and building operators, in making informed decisions related to sustainability and resource management. Through its innovative satellite imagery, Satellite Vu aims to enhance understanding of environmental impacts and support initiatives in sustainable finance and disaster response.
Space Perspective
Series A in 2021
Space Perspective Inc. is a spaceflight company based in Merritt Island, Florida, founded in 2019. It specializes in offering high-altitude balloon trips to the edge of space through its innovative spaceship, Neptune. The company aims to provide unique space travel experiences for tourists, allowing them to witness the curvature of the Earth from a stratospheric altitude. Flights are launched from Florida's Space Coast, specifically from the historic runway used by the Space Shuttle. Space Perspective plans to expand its operations to additional launch sites, including Cecil Spaceport in Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska, among others. The pressurized capsule used for these flights ascends to approximately 100,000 feet, remains at that altitude for two hours, and then descends slowly under the balloon, ultimately splashing down in the ocean for retrieval.
Space Forge
Seed Round in 2021
Space Forge is a space manufacturing company that develops a reusable satellite designed to produce next-generation super materials in space for return to Earth. The satellite uses the space environment to create alloys and crystals that are not possible to manufacture on Earth, enabling clients to achieve materials with lower energy loss and lighter components for use in computing, telecoms, and pharmaceutical products. The company operates laboratories in Bristol and Wales and focuses on manufacturing advanced metals and materials. Founded in 2018 and based in Bristol, Space Forge aims to enable on-orbit manufacturing that advances material performance for industrial and aerospace applications.
Pangea Aerospace
Seed Round in 2021
Pangea Aerospace, founded in 2018 and based in Barcelona, Spain, specializes in developing small rocket launchers aimed at the small satellite market. The company focuses on creating a reusable aerospike engine for the first stage of its rocket, along with an innovative landing system that enhances the efficiency and reduces the costs associated with space access. By leveraging proprietary technology, Pangea Aerospace aims to provide launch service providers with advanced rocket propulsion systems and vehicles, ultimately making space more accessible for small satellite deployments.
Satellite Vu is a developer of high-resolution thermal imaging satellites designed to monitor the temperature of buildings and infrastructures globally. By utilizing infrared technology to capture heat emissions in near real-time, the company provides valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency, and carbon footprints. This information aids various sectors, including the energy industry, investors, natural disaster responders, and building operators, in making informed decisions related to sustainability and resource management. Through its innovative satellite imagery, Satellite Vu aims to enhance understanding of environmental impacts and support initiatives in sustainable finance and disaster response.
Space Perspective
Seed Round in 2020
Space Perspective Inc. is a spaceflight company based in Merritt Island, Florida, founded in 2019. It specializes in offering high-altitude balloon trips to the edge of space through its innovative spaceship, Neptune. The company aims to provide unique space travel experiences for tourists, allowing them to witness the curvature of the Earth from a stratospheric altitude. Flights are launched from Florida's Space Coast, specifically from the historic runway used by the Space Shuttle. Space Perspective plans to expand its operations to additional launch sites, including Cecil Spaceport in Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska, among others. The pressurized capsule used for these flights ascends to approximately 100,000 feet, remains at that altitude for two hours, and then descends slowly under the balloon, ultimately splashing down in the ocean for retrieval.