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community spotlight

weekly industry events

GEOINT symposium & C4ISR show this week!

monday, 05/04
  • AI x Investor mixer (LA).

  • Human agency x AI (SF).

  • Techstars happy hour (NY).

tuesday, 05/05
  • AI Founder breakfast (SF).

  • AI meetup x Qualcomm (SF).

  • Founders run x coffee (SF).

  • AI x transformers (SF).

  • GTM social (NY).

  • Ankur Nagpal fireside (NY).

wednesday, 05/06
  • Founders x VC x reverse pitch (LA).

  • Tech happy hour (LA).

  • Founders x Funders coffee (SF).

  • Happy hour (NY).

thursday, 05/07
  • Robotics meetup (SF).

  • Hard tech BBQ (SF).

  • Mahjong x AI party (SF).

  • Startup party (SF).

  • Hardware meetup (NY).

  • SFA social (Florida).

friday, 05/08
  • Poker night (LA).

  • Coffee hour (LA).

  • Demo day (LA).

  • Taiwan innovation meetup (SF).

  • Moon policy panel x University of Cologne (NY).

sunday, 05/09
  • Physical AI hackathon (SF).

  • Climate Tech training (SF).

upcoming

  • Deal flow golf (LA).

  • SSC Prime subcontracting (LA).

  • Deep Tech meetup (NY).

  • AI Week (NY).

  • Tech Week x a16z (Boston).

space brew

weekly capital flows

government

  • General Dynamics wins $716M U.S. Army award for vehicle servicing (GW).

  • Planned Systems wins $110M AFSOC award for cybersecurity & integrated mission systems (GW).

  • Vantor wins $70M NGA award for GEOINT (BW).

  • Interlune wins $6.9M NASA SBIR Phase 3 award for robotic arm to extract lunar regolith (SN).

pre seed / seed

  • Spectrum exits stealth with $19M Seed by WhiteRabbit, Alumni for threat detection (SW).

series A+

  • Scout AI raises $100M Series A by Draper for autonomous vehicles for DoW (X).

  • Firestorm Labs raises $92M Series B by Washington Harbour Partners, NEA, Ondas for just-in-time 3D printed drones (TC).

  • Spread AI raises $30M Series B by IQT, Salesforce, DTCP for intelligence in industrial engineering (TTV).

m&a / public

  • York Space to acquire All.Space for $355M cash-stock to vertically integrate terminal manufacturing (VS).

  • Textron to divest industrial from aerospace & defense businesses (GW).

DIU x DoW offer award for modular data centers.

headlines

  • Eutelsat & Station Satcom partner for maritime fleet connectivity (SN).

  • Planet Labs, JPL & Carbon Mapper partner on hyperspectral imagery for mining & climate (SN).

  • Founders Fund raises $6B growth fund (TNW).

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

orbital classifieds

weekly opportunities

funding rounds

1 Shield AI - Series G - GNSS-denied autonomous infrastructure

2 Project Prometheus - Series B - frontier AI

3 TRL-11 - Series A - vision for earth observation

4 Skymapper - Series A - real time earth observation / SSA

5 Agnisense - Seed - thermal IR detectors & sensors

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