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weekly industry meetups

today, 03/03
  • Techstars happy hour (LA).

  • Entrepreneurs roundtable (NY).

wednesday, 03/04
  • Build day x Stripe (SF).

  • Founders dinner (SF).

  • Women’s day happy hour (SF).

  • Startup & wine (NY).

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thursday, 03/05
  • Venture demo day (LA).

  • Data infrastructure happy hour (SF).

  • Female founders summit (SF).

  • Builders night (NY).

  • AI demo night (NY).

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friday, 03/06
  • Founders breakfast (SF).

  • Climate game night (NY).

saturday, 03/07
  • Founders dirt biking (SF).

  • Tech basketball (NY).

  • Energy game night (NY).

sunday, 03/08
  • Longevity meetup (SF).

monday, 03/09

  • Climate, energy engineer dinner (NY).

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upcoming government contracts

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space brew

weekly capital flows

government

  • L3Harris, Elbit, Photonis Defense win $1.3B Army awards for night observation devices (GW).

  • HawkEye wins $75M European defense award for GPS monitoring for electronic warfare (HE).

  • SAIC wins $95M GAO award for cybersecurity & IT modernization (GW).

  • UT Austin wins $9.3M Texas Space Commission Seed grant for SDA & real-time threat detection for USSF (X).

  • Bubble Technology wins $4M CSA award for space radiation detection spectrometer (GC).

  • Firehawk Aerospace wins US Army DEVCOM AvMC CRADA for tactical SRM & energetics (X).

  • Amentum wins UK defense award for hypersonic weapons (AT).

  • Vyoma wins ESA award for SDA tracking satellites for space traffic in LEO & GEO (VY).

pre seed / seed

  • Sophia Space raises $10M Seed by Alpha, KDDI, Unlock for space computer thermal management (TC).

  • ISPTech raises $6.5M Seed by Join Capital, HTGF, Faber for green chemical propulsion for space vehicles (TV).

  • Armatrix raises $2.1M Pre Seed by Pi, Boost for physical AI for ballast tanks, reactors, & aviation engines (X).

  • Ground Control Development raises $2M Pre Seed by Root, Reveille, Earthrise for manufacturing facilities management software (LI).

  • Noxon raises Seed by HTGF, Bayern for wearable muscle-computer interface for rehabilitation (TV).

series A+

  • Revel raises $150M Series B by Index, Redpoint, Thrive for software for manufacturing & engineering teams (X).

  • Aalyria raises $100M Series B financing at $1.3B valuation by Battery, J2, DYNE for network orchestration (VS).

  • Gambit Security exits stealth with $61M Seed, Series A by Cyberstarts, Kleiner Perkins, Spark for ransomware remediation & business continuity (SW).

  • Ease raises $41M Series A by a16z, Abstract, Box for healthcare OS (X).

  • Smack raises $32M Seed & Series A for campaign planning defense AI for DoW (X).

  • OQ Technology raises $30M debt financing from EIB for sovereign 5G D2D LEO satcom (VS).

  • Sensera raises $27M Series B by 10 Atlantic, Egis, MUUS for AI-led construction intelligence (TV).

  • Constelli raises $20M Series A by General Catalyst, Pravega for electronic warfare satcom for India, SK, Australia (IC).

m&a

  • Phantom Space acquires Vector Launch IP for small payload modular rockets (VS).

  • Applied Aerospace acquires Vestigo Aerospace to vertically integrate drag sails to deorbit satellites (VS).

  • Rocket Lab acquires Optical Support for optical lenses & instruments for SDA & missile warning (GW).

public

  • Gilat Satellite Networks wins $39M in orders for ESA installations in LEO & GEO satellites (VS).

  • Intuitive Machines raises $175M in stock sale for Mars, Lunar, and secure comms missions (SN).

  • Ondas invests $10M in World View Space for stratospheric sensors for ISR (X).

  • Google spends $1B on slow-discharge battery orders from Form Energy (TC).

headlines

  • Cargo war risk by disruptions in Strait of Hormuz spikes 25-50% premiums on marine hull insurance (IB).

  • General Electric, Palantir, USAF partner on AI + fleet & supply management (AT).

  • Starlink Mobile, Deutsche Telekom partner on 5G-speed D2D coverage in Europe (VS).

  • EnduroSat, Airmo partner on satellite constellations & LiDAR to monitor methane emissions (VS).

  • SES, Africa Mobile Network partner on solar-backed mobile connectivity in Congo (VS).

  • Skynopy, Safran Space, Kenya Space Agency partner on antennas & ground stations for earth observation (DT).

  • TKMS, Hanwha bid to build 12 of Canada’s next-gen submarines (BN).

  • Seraphim raises $100M+ by BBB, NSSIF, Arabsat, Eutelsat for early stage space tech venture fund (BS).

  • Hyundai invests $6.3B in data center & physical AI in South Korea (ET).

orbital classifieds

Open roles:

1 Canada NRC (semiconductor research).

2 American Terawatt (parallel industrial energy grid)

3 Pano (geospatial data engineer)

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