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weekly industry meetups

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today, 03/11
  • Fundraising meetup x Citizens Bank (LA).

  • Female founders x funders lunch (LA).

  • Founders meetup x AI (LA).

  • Pitch practice (LA).

  • AI for material discovery x OpenClaw (SF).

  • Founder x investor summit (SF).

  • YC alumni & friends meetup (NY).

  • Founders basketball (NY).

  • Satellite panel x Stoke Space x Zeno (Seattle).

thursday, 03/12

  • Tech industry mixer (LA).

  • Rooftop meetup (LA).

  • GenAI VFX production (LA).

  • Tech breakfast (NY).

  • Hardware robotics meetup x NYU (NY).

  • Hardtech meetup (Austin).

  • ceo dinner (Austin).

  • Invite-only founder VC dinner x Draper (Austin).

friday, 03/13
  • Founder VC breakfast x Stifel x Outlander (Austin).

  • ceo dinner (Austin).

saturday, 03/14
  • Tech women coffee (LA).

  • Mars colony program (SF).

tuesday, 03/16
  • Supply chains, AI, automation (LA).

upcoming

  • Deep tech week (NY).

  • NASA JPL tour (LA).

  • Veteran happy hour (SF).

  • Reindustrialize hackathon (DC).

  • Battle field validation - test your tech (NY).

  • Distributed grid, transmission management (NY).

  • Japan market entry (NY).

  • PNT summit (DC).

space brew

weekly capital flows

government

  • Sierra Nevada Corp wins NRO award for commercial RF satcom & ISR (SNC).

  • Landing Zones LZC wins $810K PrairiesCan award for autonomous drones (BK).

pre seed / seed

  • Lux Aeterna raises $10M Seed by Decisive, Cubit for reusable space fleets (SN).

  • ISPTech raises $6M Seed by Join Capital. HTGF, Faber, DLR for green propulsion for space vehicle maneuverability (IS).

  • Cytotrait raises $4M Seed by Northern Gritstone for precise trait engineering for crops & genes (TV).

series A+

  • Sierra Space raises $550M Series C at $8B valuation by LuminArx, General Atlantic for national defense (SS).

  • Rhoda AI raises $450M Series A at $1.7B valuation by Khosla for industrial robotics training (BB).

  • Science Corporations raised $230M Series C financing by Khosla, Lightspeed, YC for brain-computer interface implant (SC).

  • PLD Space raises $209M Series C by Mitsubishi Electric for orbital launch capacity (SN).

  • Eridu raises $200M Series A by Matter, John Doerr, Bosch for AI networking layer (TC).

  • Isembard raises $50M Series A to open 25 factories in UK, USA, Germany, France, Ukraine (SW).

m&a

  • Voyager invests in Max Space for space habitats for lunar expansion (X).

  • Anduril acquires ExoAnlaytic Solutions for situational awareness tools & $26M in SBIR grants (TC).

  • Infinite Orbits acquires Lunasa to vertically integrate RPOD for satellite servicing & unlock UK market (ET).

  • Kraken Robotics acquires Covelya for maritime defense expansion (X).

  • Mistral merges with Ondas adding manufacturing infrastructure, U.S. Army and federal contracts (ON).

IPO / public

  • York Space, satellite manufacturer & Golden Dome partner, to IPO at $30 to $34 per share (BW).

Palantir Startup Fellowship Cohort 2 is offering no limit, no fees builder ecosystem and strategic investment for Stealth to Series B.

headlines

  • Dominion Dynamics invests $50M for uncrewed aircraft for defense in remote environments (NW).

  • Bellatrix Aero & Bharat Electronics partner satellite payloads in VLEO (X).

  • Starlab & United Semiconductors partner on microgravity crystal growth in LEO (X).

  • Innospace & Maritime Launch partner on Nova Scotia small-launch infrastructure and PLS (X).

  • L3harris & Lanteris by Intuitive Machines partner on SDA tracking for hypersonics & ballistics (IM).

  • Xanadu & University of Maryland ARLIS partner for USAF quantum security contract (X).

  • Department of War invests $27M for excavation, refinemennt of Antimony (WG).

  • Mare Liberum wins $150M from Pentagon for a maritime VC fund (X).

  • Impulse Space expands to 20,000 sqft facility in Boulder (X).

2048 Ventures is offering up to $1.5M Pre-Seed for vertical AI, deep tech, bio tech startups.

orbital classifieds

Open roles:

1 DiracInc (engineers).

2 Canadian Strategic Missions Corp (investor relations).

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