KP Labs

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Muon Space builds and operates low Earth orbit satellite constellations end to end. Rather than selling spacecraft as hardware, it sells whole missions through what it calls Mission Foundry, bundling mission design, satellite buses, payloads, flight software, launch coordination and on-orbit operations into a single contract for defense, civil and commercial customers. Flying programs include FireSat, a wildfire-detection constellation built with Earth Fire Alliance and Google.org that TIME named one of the Best Inventions of 2025, and Vindlér 2.0, a radio-frequency data and analytics constellation for Sierra Nevada Corporation. As of August 2026 the company had launched 11 satellites across six launches with no mission failures, had more than 50 spacecraft in development and 13 manifested for launch within a year. Its San Jose manufacturing plant, opened in June 2026, is designed to reach 500 satellites per year by 2027. CEO and co-founder Jonny Dyer was previously chief engineer at Skybox Imaging.

Series C · $386M · 2026-08 · Valuation $1.5B

Array Labs, founded in 2021 in Palo Alto, California, USA, develops radar satellite and space-based radar systems for three-dimensional Earth mapping, targeting defense and ISR applications.

Strategic · $56M · 2026-07

Constellation Space (YC W26) is a Seattle-based space-software startup founded in 2025, building ConstellationOS, an ML-native operations platform for satellite fleets. It ingests real-time telemetry from satellites, ground stations, and weather systems to predict link failures, jamming, and conjunction events (self-reported >90% accuracy) and autonomously reroutes traffic in under two seconds via handoffs, load-balancing, and optical routing, shifting constellation operations from reactive monitoring to proactive autonomy. Founded by a team out of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA.

Seed · $7M · 2026-08

A commercial space company specializing in the development and mass production of quantitative hyperspectral remote sensing satellites, multiple optical payloads, and 20-30 kg commercial micro-nano satellites. The team is the first in China to master real-time quantitative hyperspectral remote sensing technology and drive volume production. Within approximately nine months of founding, the company had secured orders totaling 440 million RMB.

Series A · $42M · 2026-06

Histarlink (Haixing Guanglian Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.), founded in 2021 and registered in Shenzhen's Nanshan District, is a Chinese provider of space laser communication solutions and hardware, with an R&D center in Shanghai and a global laser communication terminal AIT (assembly, integration and test) center in Wuxi. Its product line spans high-speed optoelectronic components, cameras, galvanometers and opto-mechanical systems through to satellite laser communication payloads and inter-satellite, satellite-to-ground, satellite-to-air and satellite-to-ship laser communication terminals, with roughly 65% of core optoelectronic components developed in house. The company serves satellite internet, secure communications and emergency communications use cases; more than 20 of its terminals are in orbit, peak link speed reaches 100Gbps, and annual capacity is about 400 units. Founder Tan Jun holds a PhD from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and previously worked at aerospace research institutes on national programs including the integrated space-ground network initiative.

Series A · 2026-09

Hangzhou Yuxing (Beijing Aerospace Yuxing Technology Co., Ltd.), founded in 2016 in Beijing, China, integrates R&D of commercial aerospace telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) technology, spacecraft in-orbit operation services, serving global aerospace customers including satellite operators and rocket launch providers.

Series D+ · $280M · 2026-08 · Valuation $1.4B

Founded in 2021 in Paris, France, Beyond Aero develops hydrogen fuel cell-powered electric aircraft for sustainable business aviation. The company completed France's first crewed all-electric flight and has secured letters of intent for 108 aircraft worth $914 million.

Series A · $20M · 2024-11

LiveEO, founded in 2018 in Berlin, Germany, uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to monitor infrastructure such as railways, power lines, and pipelines.

Series B · $27M · 2024-06

ReOrbit, founded in 2019 in Helsinki, provides optimized autonomous interconnected satellite software for the efficient and reliable delivery of customer space data.

Undisclosed · $7M · 2023-09

Sarla Aviation, founded in 2023 in Bangalore, India, develops electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft aimed at providing flying taxi services for urban transportation.

Series A · $12M · 2025-01

Pixxel is a commercial space company headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with an office in El Segundo, California, co-founded in 2019 by Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal. It designs, manufactures and operates the Firefly constellation of hyperspectral Earth-observation satellites, capturing hundreds of narrow spectral bands to reveal chemical and biological signatures invisible to conventional multispectral imagery. Its Aurora Earth-intelligence platform serves enterprise and government customers across agriculture, mining, energy, environmental monitoring and defense/intelligence, including the US National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and the Indian Air Force.

Series C · $195M · 2026-09

Origin, founded in 2022 in Latvia, develops autonomous systems for military and defense applications, such as drones, providing cost-effective hardware and software to enhance the capabilities of European and NATO forces.

Series A · $51M · 2026-03