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community spotlight

weekly industry events

monday, 05/11
  • GenAI happy hour (LA).

  • Engineering + AI dinner (SF).

  • AI council x Bessemer VC (SF).

  • Founders coffee (NY).

  • Tech poker (NY).

tuesday, 05/12
  • Founder x investor dinner (LA).

  • Women x AI dinner (SF).

  • Seed to Series B founders brunch (NY).

  • Cybersecurity pitch night (NY).

  • Brooklyn tech expo (NY).

  • Pitch night x Antler x Brooklyn Bridge (NY).

  • Junto founder dinner (NY).

  • Xponential industrials trade show (Detroit)

wednesday, 05/13
  • SSC Prime subcontracting (LA).

  • SPC demo night (SF).

  • AI demo night (SF).

  • AI x Data x Dinner on a boat (SF).

  • Neurotech panel (SF).

  • YC alumni founders meetup (NY).

  • Seed to Series B founders brunch (NY).

  • Founders basketball (NY).

thursday, 05/14
  • Demo day (LA).

  • Robotics meetup (SF).

  • AI x health tech mixer (SF).

  • Agentic breakfast (SF).

  • AI happy hour (SF).

  • Founders breakfast (NY).

  • Engineers poker night (NY).

friday, 05/15
  • Robotics x deep tech meetup (NY).

  • Founders cafe x TQ Ventures (NY).

saturday, 05/16
  • Women in space walk (LA).

  • AI hackathon (SF).

  • Founders hike (SF).

upcoming

space brew

weekly capital flows

government

  • BlackSea wins $256M U.S. Navy award for sea-based fuel distribution & logistics (TD).

  • CACI wins $114M U.S. Navy award for sealift command logistics (GW).

  • Vantor wins $70M NGA GEOINT Delivery award to fuse unclassified satellite, drone, and sensor data (VS).

  • PlanetiQ wins $15M USAF STRATFI award for GNSS occultation for weather data models (AT).

pre seed / seed

  • ParcelBio exits stealth with $13M Seed for mRNA therapies to sustain proteins for chronic diseases (LT).

series A+

  • Helsing raises $1.2B by Dragoneer, Lightspeed at a $18B valuation for autonomous drones & underwater vessels (FT).

  • Astranis raises $300M Series E by Franklin Templeton, Snowpoint Ventures for GEO satellite production (VS).

  • Cowboy Space raises $275M Series A at a $2B valuation for rockets to launch data centers (SW).

  • Xoople raises $130M Series B by Nazca Capital for optical sensor satellites for enterprise GIS buyers (TC).

  • Skyroot Aerospace raises $60M equity-debt Series B at a $1.1B pre-money valuation by Sherpalo, GIC, BlackRock for small sat launch (TC).

  • LiveEO raises $33M Series A for ISR for infrastructure monitoring in Europe (SN).

  • Lunar Outpost raises $30M Series B by Industrious, Type One, Eniac, Promus, Reliable for lunar robotics (TV).

  • Darkhive raises $30M Series B by RTX, Bison, Draper, 1011, Stellar for autonomy & edge software (TD).

  • Heaviside exits stealth with $28M Series A by Interlagos, Menlo, Flume, Cantos, Anorak for autonomous precision munitions (TD).

  • Anello Photonics raises $25M Series B by MESH, LMV, Catapult, Mana, IronGate, One Madison, New Legacy for GPS-denied navigation (TD).

  • OpsMil raises $14M Series A by IRIS, Serena, Partech for infrastructure data automation (TV).

m&a

  • IonQ to acquire SkyWater for $1.8B cash-stock to vertically integrate semiconductor foundry (GW).

  • Rocket Lab to acquire Motiv Space to vertically integrate SADAs & robotics components (DD).

public

  • Applied Aerospace to IPO carrying a contract backlog of $1.1B (BBG).

headlines

  • BlackSky wins $30M defense contract for high-res hypersonic imagery (SN).

  • Anduril, Impulse, K2, Voyager, Sandia partner on USSF SSC OTA award for Golden Dome interceptors (VS).

  • Raytheon, Rocket Lab partner on USSF SSC award for Golden Dome interceptors (AT).

  • Lockheed Martin, Firefly, Seagate partner on maritime spaceports for national security (SN).

DIU x DoW offer award for modular data centers.

U.S. SBA requests public input on domestic manufacturing chokepoints critical to support American Dynamism.

orbital classifieds

weekly opportunities

funding rounds

1 Skymapper - Series A - ionospheric optical sensing.

2 Tuurny - Series A - end of life for electronics ; precious metals.

3 Stealth - Seed / Series A - China-independent actuators manufacturing ; backed by a16z, ff.

4 Saturn Robotics - Seed - motors & actuators manufacturing ; patent + American dynamism.

5 Kvasi - Seed - robotics rig.

6 Stealth - Seed - cycloidal actuators ; patent + American dynamism.

7 Mythril Motors - Seed - custom motor design for drones ; American dynamism.

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