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weekly industry meetups
view calendar - it’s SmallSat symposium week
today, 02/10
wednesday, 02/11
Tech happy hour (LA).
Smart waste meetup (LA).
Climate standup (LA).
Health tech panel x Anthropic (SF).
Hardware happy hour (SF).
Founders dinner invite only (NY).
YC meetup founder x friends (NY).
Founders basketball (NY).
Biotech x ML meetup (NY).
Health Tech meetup (NY).
Founder pitch night x Mastercard (NY).
Pitch roast x Antler (NY).
AI engineer meetup x Postman (NY).
thursday, 02/12
friday, 02/13
saturday, 02/14
sunday, 02/15
Coffee meetup (LA).
upcoming
Geo week (Denver).
Space force association meetup (Rocket City).
Zero to One bookclub (NY).
Quantum design hackathon (NY).
SpaceNext (DC).
Are you interested in speaking at Boston Tech Week 05/29 or New York Tech Week 06/01? Founders & government leaders can block a 10 minute discovery on my calendar tomorrow or Friday.
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space brew
weekly capital flows
government
Iron Legion wins $265M USSOCOM IDIQ for ISR (GW).
Lockheed Martin wins $249M U.S. Navy IDIQ award for electronic warfare to counter ship missiles (GW).
Machina Lab raises $124M Series C for metals manufacturing & physical AI for OEMs & defense (X).
KBR wins $103M USSF award for workforce readiness & future of work (GW).
Starfish Space wins $55M USSF award for ISAM robots in GEO (BD).
Voyager wins $25M NASA IDIQ award for ISS mission operations & payload integration (SN).
Vantor wins $5M NGA IDIQ award for SAR mapping & ISR (VS).
HEO, SatVu, Sierra Nevada each win $300K NRO awards for IR & RF remote sensing tech in LEO (VS).
Mitsubishi Electric wins Japanese Defense award on SDA & secure comm for national defense (SN).
pre seed / seed
Hypersonica exits stealth with $27M Seed + Series A by General Catalyst, Plural, Soundboy for dual use hypersonic tech (X).
Lema AI exits stealth with $24M Seed + Series A by Team8, Salesforece, F2 for vulnerability attacks across assets (SW).
Uplift360 raises $8.8M Seed by NATO NIF, Fund F to regenerate carbon waste for dual use defense & industrials (TPV).
Allonic Robotics raises $7.2M Pre Seed by Prototype, Day1, SDAC for manufacturing physical AI (X).
Airrived exits stealth with $6M Seed by Inner Loop, Plug and Play for agentic OS for enterprise (SW).
Conduit raises $4.7M Pre Seed by Wonder, Autotech for factory automation software (X).
series A+
CesiumAstro raises $270M Series C + $200M debt by Trousdale, Toyota, EXIM for phased array manufacturing in Texas (VS).
Positron raises $230M Series B by Arena, Jump, Qatar sovereign fund for AI chips (TC).
Tomorrow.io raises $175M Series E + by Stonecourt, HarbourVest for AI-native weather intelligence (VS).
JetZero raises $175M Series B financing by Aero X Vantures, Northrop Grumman, RTX, 3M for dual use aviation (JZ).
RobCo raises $100M Series C by Lightspeed, Lingotto for physical AI for SME manufacturing (X).
Constellr raises $44M Series A by Alpine, Lakestar for thermal remote sensors for ISR (VS).
Morpheus Space raises $15M Series A by Alpine, Euro Investment Fund for electric propulsion manufacturing in Germany (VS).
Apeiron Labs raises $9.5M Series A by Dyne, RA Capital, S2G for autonomous underwater vehicles or AUVs (TC).
m&a
public
AW Space Tech Challenge submission due by Feb 28.
Colonization — Sustainable human presence beyond Earth
Industrialization — Space resource utilization and manufacturing
Commercialization — New space economy infrastructure
Protection & Defense — Security and situational awareness
headlines
Amazon Leo guides to a $1B capex increase for 50+ missions in 2026-27 (VS).
SpaceX dominates consumer satellite internet market as Viasat & HughesNet turn to GovTech & Maritimes (VS).
Sidus Space, Simera Space partner on hyperspectral remote sensing tech for dual-use EO (VS).
Es’hailSat, Telesat partner on low-latency LEO satellite internet for Qatar (VS).
Quindar, Starfish partner on command & control for ISAM robot (VS).
Kymeta, JDI partner on Ku/Ka antennas & terminals for satcom (VS).
Panasonic, Spacesail partner for in flight connectivity in Asia Pacific (VS).
Azenta, Frontier Space partner for microgravity pharma R&D in LEO (SN).
Satlyt will license Aerospace Corp architecture for orbital edge compute (VS).
Galaxia, Apolink partner on optical + RF remote sensing tech in SSO (SQ).
Maritime DISH announces 3 focus areas, security, quantum communications, and UxS or c-UAS (SQ).
Astute projects biohacking market to expand to $217B by 2035 by consumer longevity monitoring & diagnostics (LT).
Anduril is offering $500,000 prize and a job at the AI Grand Prix for autonomous drones.
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