| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.08.2025 | New Applications, Expanding Markets Propel Earth Observation Geospatial Data Services Revenue to US$15 Billion | NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global demand for Earth observation (EO) geospatial data is rising, driven by increased interest and investment in geospatial intelligence. According to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research... |
| 16.07.2025 | IonQ Acquires Capella Space | College Park, MD-based IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) acquired Capella Space Corporation, a San Francisco, CA-based space tech company with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and satellite solutions for government and commercial applications.
The amount of ... |
| 22.01.2025 | Rocket Lab Plans to Deploy Global Wildfire Detection Satellites with OroraTech | Share
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| 18.12.2024 | Spacetech Startups Set to Propel India Further in the Modern Space Race According to the Indian Department of Space, the country's space economy is currently valued at USD 8.4 billion, constituting a ... | The sky could well be the limit for India's space technology (spacetech) sector which is expected to witness significant growth in the next few years, driven by factors such as increased participation from the private sector, substantial go... |
| 14.06.2024 | So treiben Startups das neue Space Race an | Das Weltall ist wieder en vogue. Das zeigen nicht nur die großen Geschichten von neuen Mondmissionen und herabfallendem Weltraumschrott am Himmel: Der Geotech-, NewSpace- und SpaceTech-Bereich ist auch ein Schauplatz für die deutsche Startu... |
| 04.03.2024 | TechCrunch Space: Good night, Odysseus | Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. SpaceX is launching its Transporter-10 rideshare mission today. These are always really fun to track because they carry dozens of payloads, including from many startups. This mission will include ... |
| 17.10.2023 | Capella Space to replace founder and CEO Payam Banazadeh | Synthetic aperture radar startup Capella Space is replacing founder Payam Banazadeh with a new CEO who will start at the end of the month, the company said Tuesday morning.
He will be replaced by aerospace executive Frank Backes, who will a... |
| 04.08.2023 | Capella’s Earth-imaging satellites are deorbiting faster than expected | Capella Space’s synthetic aperture radar satellites are falling back to Earth much sooner than the three years they were anticipated to operate, according to publicly available satellite data.
The startup has launched a total of ten small s... |
| 12.04.2023 | Data snapshot: Almost half of all AgriFoodTech VC investment in the US goes to California startups | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 16.03.2023 | Rocket Lab launches two radar imaging satellites from Virgina's Eastern Shore | A Rocket Lab Electron booster blasted off from Virginia's Eastern Shore on Thursday evening, boosting a pair of commercial radar imaging satellites into orbit that are capable of "seeing" through clouds, in daylight or darkness, t... |
| 22.02.2023 | Capella Space launches new partner program to address need for geospatial products
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community t... | Information services startup Capella Space Corp. today announced the launch of its Analytics Partner Program to meet what it says is increasing global demand for geospatial products and solutions that leverage the power of synthetic-apertur... |
| 31.01.2023 | Capella Space launches defense-focused subsidiary as demand for satellite imagery soars | Satellite imagery startup Capella Space is establishing a subsidiary aimed at serving U.S. government customers, as it seeks to fulfill growing demand from intelligence and defense organizations for its synthetic aperture radar tech.
Capell... |
| 16.01.2023 | Max Q: Anomalous | Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Last week wasn’t the most successful for spaceflight missions. We’ll get into that a bit more below.
In this issue:
First up, a botched launch from Virgin Orbit…
…followed by one from ABL Space Systems
News ... |
| 11.01.2023 | Capella Space raises $60 million to accelerate constellation | SEATTLE — Capella Space has raised $60 million to allow the company to accelerate the deployment of its constellation and meet growing demand for its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery.
The company announced Jan. 10 it raised ... |
| 10.01.2023 | Capella Space Completes $60M Funding Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Capella Space today announced it has closed $60 million in growth equity financing from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund.
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| 10.01.2023 | Capella Space Raises $60M in Growth Equity Funding | Capella Space, a San Francisco, CA-based satellite manufacturer and earth observation company, raised $60M in growth equity funding.
The round was led by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its im... |
| 10.01.2023 | Information services startup Capella Space raises $60M to expand imaging capacity
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community th... | Information services startup Capella Space Corp. today revealed it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand its imaging capacity and develop new data products for customers demanding frequent, timely and high-quality synthetic-apertu... |
| 02.05.2022 | Max Q: Hold fire | Hello and welcome back to Max Q.
In this issue:
Launcher debuts full thrust of 3D-printed rocket engine
A “sustainable” satellite mega-constellation?
FAA’s decision on Starbase delayed yet again
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| 26.04.2022 | Capella Space nabs $97M | Capella Space has raised a $97 million Series C led by NightDragon. Based in the Bay Area, the company's satellite radar imagery services are used to provide geospatial analytics.
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| 25.04.2022 | Capella Space Closes $97M Series C Financing |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Capella Space, an earth observation company, announced a $97M Series C financing round led by NightDragon.
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| 25.04.2022 | Information services startup Capella Space raises $97M for radar imagery service
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community tha... | Information services startup Capella Space Corp. revealed today that it has raised $97 million in new funding to meet the growing demand for its high-resolution synthetic-aperture radar imagery, expand its analytics and imaging offerings an... |
| 25.04.2022 | Capella Space Closes $97M Series C Financing | Capella Space, a San Francisco, CA-based earth observation company, raised $97M in Series C financing.
The round was led by NightDragon, with participation from existing investors DCVC and Cota Capital.
Led by CEO Payam Banazadeh, Capella S... |
| 29.12.2021 | Гражданская разведка разрушила государственную монополию на расследования
Бум гражданской разведки
Спутниковая фотография
Расследования Bellingcat... | Мы уже рассказывали о Bellingcat и других детективных агентствах, которые осуществляют разведку по открытым источникам (OSINT), например, обратный поиск изображений в Яндексе, сканируя утёкшие базы с приватной информацией (паспорта, мобильн... |
| 25.11.2021 | Необыкновенные приключения AIS в Китае, или как найти корабль в море | Необыкновенные приключения AIS в Китае, или как найти корабль в море
Во многих сообществах, интересующихся движением кораблей по морям, недавно появилась новость, что “в Китае запретили AIS” и всё в таком духе. Как обычно, в заголовках боль... |
| 29.09.2021 | Capella expands staff focused on U.S. Goverment sales and service | SAN FRANCISCO – Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite operator Capella Space named Amy Hopkins, former Boeing Phantom Works Strategy Director, as its first vice president and general manager of U.S. Government Services.
“Amy has firsthan... |
| 17.06.2021 | Capella Space wins research contract from U.S. Space Development Agency | SDA is interested in “novel remote sensing phenomenologies" for tracking missiles and other targets
WASHINGTON — Radar satellite imagery startup Capella Space on June 14 received a $3 million research contract in support of the Space D... |
| 20.12.2020 | Entrepreneurs say regulatory constraints are hampering commercial applications of space tech | When Payam Banazadeh and his team started Capella Space in 2016, they had visions of providing private industry with a wealth of new data that they could use in all sorts of ways to create business opportunities and improve efficiencies.
Fo... |
| 18.12.2020 | Американская компания запустила платформу, которая позволяет наблюдать за всеми со спутника даже сквозь стены... | Александра Кукуть 18 декабря 2020, 13:49 Американская компания запустила платформу, которая позволяет наблюдать за всеми со спутника даже сквозь стены
Компания Capella Space из США запустила платформу для государственных и частных клиентов,... |
| 16.12.2020 | Capella Space now offers the highest resolution SAR imagery commercially available | SF-based small satellite startup Capella Space is now exclusively offering the most cutting-edge synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery available on the commercial market. The company has now made available 50cm x 50cm “Spot” imagery — much... |
| 12.12.2020 | Top 10 most successful tech startups of 2020 | 2020 has been a very difficult year for everyone, especially for tech startup companies. With many companies going out of business and despite the tragedy, somehow some tech startups have succeeded against the odds. Today, we would like to ... |
| 21.10.2020 | Microsoft And SpaceX: The Final Frontier For Cloud Computing | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 14th batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites launches from ... [+] pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on October 18, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. After launch, the first stage booster rocket was r... |
| 16.09.2020 | Top 10 Space Technology startups across the world | Founder: Nathan Kundtz |
| 29.01.2020 | All eyes are on the next liquidity event when it comes to space startups | At the FAA’s 23rd Annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, a panel dedicated to the topic of trends in VC around space startups touched on public versus private funding, the right kinds of space comp... |
| 21.01.2020 | Capella Space reveals new satellite design for real-time control of high-resolution Earth imaging | Satellite and Earth observation startup Capella Space has unveiled a new design for its satellite technology, which improves upon its existing testbed hardware platform to deliver high-resolution imaging capable of providing detail at less ... |
| 16.12.2019 | Earth observation startup Capella Space will launch a seven satellite constellation in 2020 | Capella Space is all set to begin commercial operations in 2020, with the launch of seven satellites that will provide synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-based imaging, which will provide its clients with extremely high-resolution imaging of Ea... |
| 16.12.2019 | Capella Space to launch seven synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and start commercial operations in 2020 | Capella Space, an information services startup that provides on-demand sub 0.5m very high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery, today announced it will launch seven synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites an... |
| 31.10.2019 | Exclusive: Plug and Play announces 15 energy tech companies for inaugural Houston cohort | A Silicon Valley accelerator program has announced the companies that will participate in its first Houston cohort just as the program begins to foster energy tech innovation in town.
Plug and Play Technology Center, which announced its ent... |
| 03.02.2019 | As rocket companies proliferate, new enabling tech emerges as the next wave in the space race | Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Slingshot Aeropsace, SpaceX and Virgin Orbit have raised billions of dollars to create new vehicles to launch payloads into space, but as the private space industry develops in the U.S. investors a... |
| 28.09.2018 | Daily funding roundup - September 28th, 2018 | SoloLearn raised $5.6M; DAILYLOOK raised $8M; Broadly raised $10M; Covr raised $10M
SoloLearn: SoloLearnlets you learn and practice a skill of your choice anytime anywhere for free. It consists of very short videos and interactive checkpoin... |
| 27.09.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, September 27 | MONSTER FUNDING
Remember last month when I wrote a Term Sheet column on how $100 million rounds were the new normal?
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Little did I know what was to come. Just this week, Soft... |
| 26.09.2018 | Capella Space nabs $19 million for small satellites that capture on-demand Earth imagery from space | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Capella Space, an aerospace company that is setting out to provide on-demand imagery of Earth from space using small satellites, has cl... |
| 26.09.2018 | Capella Space Raises $19M in Series B Funding | Capella Space, a San Francisco, CA-based aerospace and information services company providing on-demand Earth observation data via advanced space radar, raised $19m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Spark Capital and DCVC (Data Coll... |
| 26.09.2018 | Capella Space nabs $19 million for small satellites that capture on-demand Earth imagery from space | Capella Space, an aerospace company that is setting out to provide on-demand imagery of Earth from space using small satellites, has closed a $19 million series B round of funding from Spark Capital and DCVC (Data Collective).
Founded out o... |
| 26.09.2018 | Capella Space raises $19 million for radar constellation | WASHINGTON — Capella Space, a startup planning a constellation of radar imaging satellites, has raised an additional $19 million to fund continued development of its system.
The San Francisco-based company said Sept. 26 that it raised the S... |
| 04.09.2017 | At Pear demo day, a who’s who of VCs, and plenty of fresh ideas | Pear, a popular seed-stage venture firm whose early bets include Guardant Health, Memebox, and Branch, hosted its fourth demo day in Woodside, Ca., last Thursday, and though it was a scorchingly hot afternoon at a largely outdoor venue, a v... |
| 02.08.2017 | Will Trump avoid military action against North Korean ICBMs? | We’re just a blind man and an 11 year-old boy, but Fallon and I have been learning a lot about North Korean ballistic missiles and the news is sobering for a world already in crisis. Not only does North Korea have missiles capable of reachi... |
| 10.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, May 10 | POLITE AND HOSPITABLE
New money: Obvious Ventures has officially closed its second fund with $191,919,191 million in commitments. (A filing from last month revealed a first close.) The firm’s first fund featured a numeric joke – it had $123... |
| 01.09.2016 | At Pear Demo Day, 13 companies to watch | As dozens of Teslas baked in the sprawling Palo Alto parking lot of a local law firm yesterday, 100 top investors packed into a high-ceilinged meeting room. There, they listened as 13 startups deliver four-minute presentations about why the... |
| - | Capella Space | “SAR Made Easy A New Perspective for a Fast-Changing World Explore our Data Timely & High Quality SAR Data Capella aims to provide the most frequent, timely and high-quality SAR imagery products available, accessible through an intuitiv... |
| - | Capella Space raises $60 million from fund run by billionaire entertainment exec Thomas Tull | San Francisco-based satellite imagery specialist Capella Space raised $60 million from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund of billionaire Thomas Tull.
The latest raise brings Capella to about $250 million in total equity and debt financing ... |
