VC/PE
Stories about how space companies are raising money to take on next-gen missions.
European Space Firms Raised €1.4B of Private Capital in 2025
Private European capital markets are increasingly comfortable backing space-industry upstarts.
BioOrbit Raises £9.8M Seed To Manufacture Cancer Drugs in Orbit
BioOrbit is attempting to leverage microgravity to reformulate drugs so that they can be self administered by patients instead of requiring medical staff to administer them.
True Anomaly Closes $650M Series D
True Anomaly has raised a $650M Series D, announced on the heels of its Golden Dome award for space-based interceptor tech—a new product for the four-year-old company.
UNIVITY Raises €27M Series A
Blast Club and Expansion Venture Capital contributed to the round, which also included support from the Deep Tech fund managed by Bpifrance.
ATMOS Space Cargo Raises €25.7M Series A
“This financing allows us to move to regular operational service,” CEO and cofounder Sebastian Klaus said in a statement. “With ATMOS WORKS and PHOENIX 3, we are building the full architecture—commercial, institutional, and defense-capable—in parallel.”
Portal Closes $50M Series A
Geodesic Capital and Mach33 led the round, which also included participation from Booz Allen Ventures, Ark Invest, AlleyCorp, and FUSE.
Starfish Closes $100M+ Series B
Point72 Ventures led the round, which was also co-led by Activate Capital and Shield Capital.
Antaris Raises $28M Series A
WestWave Capital led the round, which also included participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures and other new investors.
Starcloud Raises $170M Series A at $1.1B Valuation
The fundraise highlights not only the overwhelming demand among investors to fund orbital-data-center ventures, but also Starcloud’s unique position as a data-center startup with flight heritage.
Bellatrix Raises $20M For In-Space Propulsion Tech
“This round reflects strong conviction in our ability to scale,” CEO and cofounder Rohan Ganapathy said in a statement. “We’ve flight-qualified our core technologies. Now we’re building the production infrastructure to match.”
Xona Space Systems Raises $170M Series C to Scale Private GPS
Xona has spent the past few years building its ability to transmit PNT signals in LEO that are stronger, more accurate, and more secure than traditional GPS.
Arkadia Space Secures €14.5M to Develop New Biprop Engine
Spanish propulsion startup Arkadia Space just secured a stamp of approval from the European Investment Council.
PAVE Space Raises $40M for In-Space Propulsion Tech
PAVE’s propulsion systems rely on a storable rocket bipropellant, which aims to make launch operations simpler and more cost-effective, compared with cryogenic fuels.
