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weekly industry meetups
today, 02/17
tomorrow, 02/18
Elevator pitch workshop (LA).
Founders coffee meetup (LA).
Cursor meetup (LA).
Demo night (SF).
Engineers x Snowflake panel (SF).
Tech CFOs panel x public sector (SF).
Hackathon x YC founders x Carnegie Mellon (SF).
Founder mixer x Germany (SF).
Climate meetup (NY).
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thursday, 02/19
Founders panel x Science Inc. (LA).
Tech showcase (SF).
Hardware pitch night (SF).
Founders dinner x defense x robotics (NY).
Founders hardware dinner (NY).
FemTech happy hour (NY).
VC happy hour (NY).
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Series A+ founder dinner (NY).
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friday, 02/20
saturday, 02/21
sunday, 02/22
upcoming
thought leadership opportunity at Boston Tech Week 05/29 or New York Tech Week 06/01.
robotics, biotech, cyber and space founders can block a 10 minute discovery on my calendar today or Wednesday.
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space brew
weekly capital flows
government
pre seed / seed
Biological Computing raises $25M Seed by Primary for neuro-silicon-based computer vision & GenAI (SA).
Terra Industries raises additional $22M by Lux, 8VC for drone intelligence for African defense (TC).
Stanhope AI raises $8M Seed by Frontline, Paladin for physical AI inference across defense & industrial automation (TPV).
Upside raises $7.5M Seed by Plural, Garage for fertilizer robots (TC).
The Compression Company raises $3.4M Pre Seed by Long Journey to compress Earth Observation data (VS).
Deep Space Energy raises $1.1M Pre Seed for lunar electricity generators (SA).
series A+
NScale raises $1.4B financing by PIMCO, Blue Owl, Luminarx to lease NVIDIA chips to European customers (BG).
Apptronik raises $935M Series A on a $5.3B valuation for humanoid robots (TC).
Stoke Space raises $860M Series D for medium lift launch vehicles (SD).
Axiom Space raises $350M by Qatar sovereign fund, Type One, 1789 for spacesuits & space habitats (CNBC).
Loyal raises $100M Series C financing by age1 to build out distribution for canine longevity pill (LT).
Alva Energy raises $33M Series A to modernize & de-risk existing U.S. nuclear reactors (SC).
Kainova raises $28M Series B for GPCR targeted cancer treatment (BK).
Nucleus Security raises $20M Series C by Delta-v for exposure management (SW).
Integrate raises $17M Series A by FPV Ventures for classified defense project management (TC).
Orbit AI raises $500k by PowerBank Corp to build orbital cloud layer for energy players (SN).
m&a
public
Leidos wins Department of War award to monitor risk for USAF controls (AT).
headlines
Southwest Airlines & Starlink modernize in-flight connectivity across fleet of 300 (VS).
Planet & AXA integrate earth observation data in insurance risk models for climate monitoring (VS).
Aspia Space & Stelia partner to scale geospatial data workflows for biomass changes, crop health (SN).
Collins Aerospace, General Atomic, Shield AI, Anduril & U.S. Air Force partner on combat mission autonomy software (ASF).
Canadian defense plans $60B capital spend on domestic SMBs, AI & quantum champions (BK).
Photonic & Telus partner on quantum data centers & quantum hacking (BK).
Alberta invests $20M in energy emission reduction projects (BK).
Discipulus Ventures El Segundo early stage hard tech residency.
Deadline February 20th.
Soma Fellows $2M uncapped capital.
Deadline April 1st.
orbital classifieds
Companies raising:
Kyber Labs - Raising $10M Seed.
General purpose Physical AI.
Founders: Yonatan Robbins, Tyler Habowski
Open roles:
1 Intrinsic (robotics engineer).
2 Tenna (RF signal processing engineer).
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