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weekly industry meetups
today, 03/03
wednesday, 03/04
thursday, 03/05
friday, 03/06
saturday, 03/07
sunday, 03/08
Longevity meetup (SF).
monday, 03/09
Climate, energy engineer dinner (NY).
upcoming
Maritime defense hackathon (Philadelphia).
NASA JPL tour (LA).
upcoming government contracts
DIU seeks U.S. & international vendors for OTA for GEO reconnaissance, SSA, EO imagery.
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
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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