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today, 02/03
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space brew
weekly capital flows
government
Raytheon wins $1B Army award for defense sensor capacity expansion (GW).
Northwood Space wins $50M award by USSF for Department of War satcom links (VS).
ESS Tech wins $10M USAF AFRL award for iron flow batteries for station microgrids (AF)
L3Harris wins US Navy award for precision-strike missiles for marine corps (YH).
Arianespace wins EU contract for sovereign PNT satelites (SN).
Azerbaijan’s Azercosmos wins Republic of Chad MoU for satcom (VS).
pre seed / seed
Samara raises $10M Seed by Balerion to prevent wobble in space (PL).
Twogee raises $2.5M Seed by Bayern Kapital for industrial enzyme & raw material production (TV).
Aisy exits stealth with $2.3M Seed by Osney, Flying Fish for AI-led vulnerability remediation (SW).
Xatoms wins $225k grant for water purification by quantum chemistry (BK).
series A+
Tenpoint Therapeutics raises $235M Series B equity + debt for vision loss eye drops (LT).
Claroty raises $150M Series F at a $3B valuation by Golub for asset security. Likely to IPO. (SW).
Northwood Space raises $100M Series B by Washington Harbour, a16z, Alpine, Founders Fund for satcom ground infrastructure capacity (VS).
Altimmune raises $75M for liver treatment therapy (LT).
Outtake raises $40M Series B by Anthropic, Datadog, 1Password for agentic fraud detection (TC).
Gigablue raises $20M Series A by Planet Ocean for marine carbon removal (TV).
m&a
public
Kraken Robotics secures $35M in contracts for SeaPower batter to UUV (X).
National Research Council of Canada is offering $5M Quantum Internetworking Challenge award for quantum internet infrastructure.
Anduril is offering $500,000 prize and a job at the AI Grand Prix for autonomous drones.
headlines
Global space economy valued at $626B in 2025 projected to exceed $1T by 2034 (SN).
Starlink offers free SSA for conjunction screening & traffic management (VS).
India offers 0 taxes through 2047 on revenues from cloud services sold outside India from data centers built in the country (TC).
Midnight & Spacecoin partner on satcom-based secure P2P messaging platform (SN).
Airspan & Space Compass partner on secure 5G command & control for maritime surveillance (SW).
Airbus & Hisdesat partner on SAR satellites for EO & defense (AB).
KSAT launches AI maritime monitoring leveraging largest ground station coverage (SW).
2048 Ventures raised $82M fund for early stage Deep Tech in NYC & Boston (X).
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