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weekly industry meetups

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today, 02/10
  • AI Women happy hour (SF).

  • Fireside x Perplexity (SF).

  • Capital meetup (NY).

  • Founder x creator meetup (NY).

  • Founders dinner (NY).

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
  • Demo day (LA).

  • Engineer mixer (LA).

  • Claude meetup (LA).

  • All Star kickoff (LA).

  • All Star meetup (LA).

  • USC venture summit (LA).

  • Demo day x SPC (SF).

  • Govtech happy hour (NY).

  • Cafe compute (NY).

  • Venture panel (NY).

  • LPs meetup x Recursive (NY).

  • Neurotech happy hour (NY).

  • Capital open house (NY).

friday, 02/13
  • Founders basketball (LA).

  • Energy innovation x UCLA (LA).

  • Founders game night x lunar new year (NY).

saturday, 02/14
  • Founders meetup invite only (SF).

  • Women in tech hackathon (SF).

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

  • SpaceX, xAI consolidate for $250B at a $1.3T valuation ahead of possible IPO (VS).

  • PrimeGen, DT Cloud Star merge with $1.5B SPAC for regenerative biotech therapies (LT).

public

  • Leidos wins Department of War award to monitor risk for USAF controls (AT).

  • Amazon Leo wins MTN & Elcome contracts for satellite internet for commercial maritime market (VS).

  • Amazon Leo wins AT&T contract for satellite internet to commercial market (VS).

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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weekly insights.

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