Earth Observation
Open Cosmos Raises €300 Million to Scale European Satellite Manufacturing
Open Cosmos just closed a €300 million Series C, and roughly €0 of the press language around it mentions that the company is now trying to run four satellite factories in four countries at the same time while also promising to turn raw orbital imagery into usable intelligence in 30 minutes instead of two days.
Pixxel's $100M Round Is a Bet on the Layer Above the Satellite
Pixxel just raised $100 million, the largest funding round yet reported for an Indian space-technology company. What makes the round interesting is not simply that a hyperspectral-imaging company raised a large Series C. It is that the money is explicitly going toward an intelligence layer, new sensing modes, sovereign systems and manufacturing capacity, all at once. Pixxel’s announcement says the round was co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing total funding to $195 million.