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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
friday, 03/13
saturday, 03/14
tuesday, 03/16
Supply chains, AI, automation (LA).
upcoming
space brew
weekly capital flows
government
pre seed / seed
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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