69 Best Satellite Infrastructure Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Satellite Infrastructure Startups

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There are 543 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $13.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $198.6m.

Last update to the database: Mar 17, 2026. See changelog.

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$250.0m

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Firefly Aerospace is an end-to-end space transportation company developing technology for launching, landing, and operating space missions.

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$124.0m

Money raised

Company providing user behavioral analytics for revenue optimization for websites and smartphone applications

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$349.2m

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HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

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$74.3m

Money raised

Pachama is a company estimating carbon storage in forests and predicting future deforestation or potential for forest restoration with the use of satellite images.

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$3.8b

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Klarna is a global digital bank and flexible payments provider founded in 2005 by Victor Jacobsson, Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Niklas Adalberth.

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$46.4m

Money raised

Cropin, also known as Cropin Technology solutions, is a company that offers an intelligent and self-evolving system that delivers farming solutions to the agricultural sector.

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$336.0m

Money raised

Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of Web3.

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$408.0m

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Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) for global air traffic surveillance.

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$12.1m

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Sky and Space Global is an Australian nanosatellite company focused on IoT networks.

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7

Funding Rounds

$81.3m

Money raised

Kepler Communications is a company that has a focus on satellite production and communication networks.

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$363.4m

Money raised

Contentful's platform helps teams deliver digital experiences faster with an API-first approach.

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$11.7m

Money raised

White-label custody solutions provider for digital assets on blockchain.

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9

Funding Rounds

$312.9m

Money raised

Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.

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$8.0m

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Web3 gaming platform and game creator ecosystem with a sustainable economy

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$3.5m

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Peer5 is an operator of a peer-to-peer (p2p) content delivery network architecture designed to decentralize video viewing experiences for users. The company was acquired by Microsoft in August 2021.

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1

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$13.0m

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Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded, aerospace developer and manufacturer that is interested in lowering the cost of spaceflight in order to explore the solar system

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6

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$37.3m

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Pixxel is a Bengalore and El Segundo, California-based developer of hyperspectral satellite imagery for the capture of geospatial data.

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112

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

Numerica is a Fort Collins, Colorado-based space, air, and missile defense company

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$13.3m

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Galgus is a Camas, Seville-based wireless and Wi-Fi technology company developing systems used by OEMs and system integrators for Wi-Fi networks.

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$55.9m

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5G satellite telecom operator for global IoT connectivity.

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10

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$100.3m

Money raised

Ursa Space Systems is a U.S.-based satellite intelligence company that provides business and government decision-makers access to on-demand analytic solutions. Through its radar satellite network and data fusion expertise, Ursa detects real-time changes in the physical world to expand transparency.

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9

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$93.5m

Money raised

Hiber is an Amsterdam-based satellite IoT network provider offering global connectivity through the company's Hiberband network.

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$365.0m

Money raised

Ligado is developing solutions for reliable and secure 5G mobile private networks.

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$42.0m

Money raised

Starfish Space develops and provides autonomous satellite servicing solutions, such as satellite life extension, recovery, and debris removal.

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Funding Rounds

$474.5m

Money raised

Trulioo is a Vancouver-based company offering an electronic identity verification platform.

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$23.8m

Money raised

Astrocast is an end-to-end satellite IoT network provider, manufacturer, and operator.

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$4.0m

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Skyloom is an Oakland, California-based telecommunications company developing laser communication satellite systems for space-based communications.

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$1.4b

Money raised

Nydig is a provider of bitcoin infrastructure and institutional financial services.

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$30.4m

Money raised

IoTium is a provider of secure managed software-defined network infrastructure.

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$54.0m

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Alkira is a San Jose, California-based network cloud platform provider, offering cloud infrastructure delivered as a service built to help companies design, deploy, and operate hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks.

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5

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$140.0m

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Omnispace offers hybrid connectivity solutions based on satellite and terrestrial networks for a variety of industries.

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$4.1m

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Analytical Space is a satellite communications company making satellites equipped with RD-laser communications technology.

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$95.5m

Money raised

PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

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$6.0m

Money raised

Orbit Fab is a space industry startup developing in-space refueling services founded in 2018 by Daniel Faber.

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$14.5m

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GalaxySpace is a Beijing-based commercial micro-satellites developer and provider of satellite-based communications and internet systems.

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$55.0m

Money raised

Volusion is an Austin, Texas-based developer of an e-commerce software platform to help businesses build and manage online stores.

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7

Funding Rounds

$744.0m

Money raised

ICEYE is an earth-observation satellite operator founded in 2015 by Rafal Modrzewski.

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$108.0m

Money raised

WayRay is a Moscow-based developer of holographic augmented reality technologies for the automotive industry.

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$11.6m

Money raised

RoadBotics is a Pittsburgh-based artificial intelligence company.

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Funding Rounds

$519.7m

Money raised

Flutterwave is a company designing and developing application programming interface payments across Africa.

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8

Funding Rounds

$210.5m

Money raised

A company offering mobile digital identity solutions for businesses.

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4

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$148.5m

Money raised

InfStones is a blockchain staking and infrastructure platform that aims to make Web3 ecosystems more accessible.

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$9.3m

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NSLComm is an Israel-based satellite manufacturing company designing fabric-like, flexible dish antennas that expand in space to offer high throughput communications for small satellites.

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$1.8m

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SAT4m2m develops a forefront IoT platform at the convergence of Space IoT and LPWA devices for disruptive and interoperable services for Industrial IoT.

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$553.5m

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Fundbox is a company offering business lines of credit founded in 2013 by Eyal Shinar, Tomer Michaeli and Yuval Ariav.

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$211.9m

Money raised

Keyfactor is a software company that provides cloud-first PKI as a service and crypto-agility solutions.

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$134.0m

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U.S-based company providing cloud infrastructure for global software and hardware development and deployment.

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$11.2m

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Fleet Space Technologies is an Adelaide-based satellite communications company developing satellites for low-bandwidth connectivity for machine-to-machine communication, data exchange, and IoT sensor networks.

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$320.5m

Money raised

Jumio is a company offering a platform for identity verification founded in 2010.

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$212.0m

Money raised

Astrobotic Technology is a company that looks to offer affordable space robotic technology as well as work towards planetary missions.

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Funding Rounds

$72.5m

Money raised

Accion Systems is a company that provides in-space propulsion systems for satellites

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$14.4m

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Satellite network provider for IoT connectivity in remote areas.

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$25.0m

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Prosimo is a Santa Clara, California-based infrastructure development company offering cloud-computing infrastructure.

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$177.0m

Money raised

Capella Space is building a commercial radar satellite constellation. Its headquarters are located in San Francisco, California and it was founded in 2011.

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Funding Rounds

$208.5m

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A manufacturing company that specializes in producing solutions for microsatellite operations. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Berthoud, Colorado.

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$116.0m

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Skylo Technologies, Inc. is a Palo Alto, California-based telecommunications and satellite IoT company developing solutions for wireless networks for machine data.

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$24.9m

Money raised

Transcelestial Technologies is a communications company that is creating a space laser network for communication purposes. It is located in Singapore and was founded in 2016.

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5

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$88.6m

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Spacelift is an AI-powered infrastructure orchestration platform founded in 2020 by Marcin Wyszynski.

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4

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$10.0m

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Lynk is a Falls Church, Virginia-based telecommunications and satellite communications company offering connectivity for cell phone users globally.

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$108.0m

Money raised

Petuum helps companies create artificial intelligence/machine learning solutions.

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$5.0m

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User authentication and fraud prevention with biometric Identity-as-a-Service. AimBrain provides face, voice, lipsync, behavior and anomaly detection modules.

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$12.2m

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Xignite is a cloud-based financial data distribution and market data mangement technology company.

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4

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$43.5m

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TechSee is an Israeli technology company that specializes in intelligent visual CX solutions powered by computer vision AI and augmented reality.

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10

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$105.0m

Money raised

Elliptic is a blockchain security company founded by Tom Robinson, Adam Joyce, and James Smith.

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3

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$560.0k

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Atomos Nuclear and Space is a space engineering, travel, launching and landing company focused on creating rapid, cost-effective propulsion and landing for last-mile delivery in space.

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$95.0m

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LeoLabs is a a company that is interested in protecting satellites that are in low-Earth orbit

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$169.9m

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Zero Hash is a financial services company specializing in digital assets-as-a-service technology.

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$6.8m

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Alba Orbital Limited is a Glasgow-based company that builds and designs small commercial satellite platforms.

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$24.8m

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An insurance technology company offering a platform for cleaning relevant data for the insurance industry.

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