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weekly industry meetups

view calendar - it’s NY Deep Tech week

wednesday, 04/01
  • SoCal innovation mixer (LA).

  • Physics tech (NY).

  • Government contracting coffee (NY).

  • Founder happy hour (NY).

  • CubeSat meetup (NY).

  • Hyperstition cocktail (NY).

  • Deep tech showcase x SOSV (NY).

thursday, 04/02
  • Founders breakfast (SF).

  • Founder bowling (SF).

  • Distributed grid (NY).

  • Founders & builders breakfast (NY).

  • Predictive biology investors only (NY).

  • Industrials & defense cocktail (NY).

  • Neuro x PsyMed (NY).

friday, 04/03
  • Vinod Khosla fireside chat (SF).

  • Deep tech closing mixer (NY).

  • Robotics x Intelligence (NY).

  • Nuclear x AI (NY).

monday, 04/06
  • NASA JPL tour (LA).

  • Happy hour x SPIN (SF).

  • B2B founders x investors (NY).

upcoming

space brew

weekly capital flows

government

  • Honeywell wins $500M DoW supplier award for navigation systems, Assure actuators & EW for military ops & munitions (AT).

  • Kratos wins $447M USSF award for missile warning & tracking in MEO (US).

  • DOE invests $320M across 217 university projects in fusion energy, quantum, nuclear, & materials (EG).

  • Intuitive Machines wins $180M NASA award for lunar payloads (X).

  • BlackSky wins $99M AFRL IDIQ award for gen3+ larger aperture optical payloads for SDA & EO (BS).

  • Wyvern wins $3M RDII PrairiesCan award for maritime ISR (SQ).

  • Ovzon wins $1.3M DoW contract for satcom terminals for ongoing war (VS).

  • Redwire & Aerospacelab win Belgian Defense award for national security satellites (VS).

pre seed / seed

  • Nomadic raises $8.4M Seed at $50M valuation by TQ, Pear for AI classification of autonomous vehicle data (TC).

  • Huskeys exits stealth with $8M Seed for edge security stack (SW).

  • TerraSpark raises $5.8M Pre Seed by Daphni, Sake Bosch for space-to-earth energy transmission (TTV).

  • Nature Robots raises $4.6M Seed by Climentum, Bayern for autonomous machines in agriculture (TTV).

  • Arinna raises $4M Seed by Spacecadet, Anorak, Breakthrough Energy for reusable space fleets (TC).

series A+

  • Saronic raises $1.8B Series D at $9.25B valuation by Kleiner Perkins for autonomous ship & Texas shipyard (CNBC).

  • ShieldAI raises $1.5B Series G & $500M financing at $12.7B valuation by JPM, Snowpoint, Riot, Blackstone to acquire Aechelon defense simulation software (SA).

  • Rebellions raises $400M Series C by Mirae Asset, Korea National Growth Fund for AI inference chip infrastructure (TC).

  • Starcloud raises $170M Series A at $1.1B valuation by Benchmark, EQT for orbital data centers at $0.05 kW/hr of power (TC).

  • Xona raises $170M Series C by Mohari, Natural, Craft, IONIQ for GPS constellation for PNT (PS).

  • PDW raises $110M Series B financing by Hood River, Hanwha AM, Booz Allen Hamilton for military combat small drones (GC).

  • Antaris raises $28M Series A by WestWave, Lockheed Martin Ventures for autonomous satellite for ISR (AH).

  • Lucid Bots raises $20M Series B by Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners for commercial cleaning drones (TC).

  • Bellatrix raises $20M Pre Series B for satellite propulsion infrastructure (X).

  • VITL raises $7.5M Series A by SignalFire for cash-pay e-prescription services (TC).

m&a

  • Rocket Lab - Mynaric acquisition approved to expand optical satcom & European coverage. (SWS).

  • Pulmatrix & Eos merge with $19M private capital as a GLP1 counterpart (LT).

IPO / public

  • Xanadu (XNDU) debuts on TSX & NASDAQ raising $302M for photonic quantum computing & quantum data centers (BW).

  • SK Hynix eyes U.S. IPO to raise $10B - $14B for high-bandwidth memory factories in Korea & Indiana (TC).

  • Redwire & Moog sign $12.8M contract to power satellite buses with solar array wings (VS).

DOE offers $500M for critical minerals & batteries manufacturing.

CDOA offers $5000 & prime awards for swarm forge & robotic warfare white paper.

2048VC offers $50K-$100K pitch awards for bio tech & deep tech.

CSA offers $3.6M for life science microgravity research on ISS by April 2027.

headlines

  • SES & K2 Space partner on MEO satellite infrastructure for C2, fiber-equivalent, 5G-NTN telecom (SES).

  • Synspective & Saudi Arabia’s NSG UP42 partner on SAR data for agriculture, maritime, disaster management (SYN).

  • ADMARES & ABB Robotics partner on next-gen modular housing construction in Australia (ADM).

  • Portal Space & Paladin Space partner on orbital debris removal-as-a-service in LEO (VS).

  • Flexell, Kongsberg NanoAvionics, Hanwha partner on next-gen solar arrays for South Korea’s sovereign LEO constellation (VS).

  • SATLANTIS & HEO partner on SDA imaging for national defense (SN).

  • Novaspace estimates High Throughput Satellite service revenue to reach $76B over 218 Tbps by 2034 (NS).

  • Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar & UAE partner on battle-tested air defense deals for UAV (AT).

  • Overmatch Ventures raises $250M fund for Seed & Series A deep tech startups (GV).

  • Microsoft & Crusoe expand 900MW - 2.1GW AI factory in Abilene, Texas (X).

2048 Ventures is offering up to $1.5M Pre-Seed for vertical AI, deep tech, bio tech startups.

orbital classifieds

Open funding rounds:

1 Aetherflux

Raising $250M - $350M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures to power space data centers.

2 Physical Intelligence

Raising $1B at a $11B+ valuation to train general purpose robot AI models.

3 Impulse Space

Raising $400M at a $3.6B valuation for payload mobility services to LEO.

4 IO-ID Robotics

Raising $1M - $2M Seed for robots to automate auto OEM production lines.

5 SunOrbit

Raising $1M - $2M Seed to power space data centers. Deck.

6 Pixxel

Raising to expand global EO coverage.

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