Former ISRO Scientists’ Venture, Skyroot Aerospace, Gets Backing from Temasek in a $27.5M Round
Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad-based spacetech startup, has raised a new round of capital from Singapore state investment firm Temasek. This development materialized a year after the Singapore state’s sovereign wealth fund GIC backed the Hyderabad-based startup. Skyroot Aerospace has secured an additional $27.5 million (₹225 crore) in a pre-Series C round led by […]
SpaceTech Startup Pixxel Raises $36 Mn In Series B Funding
Pixxel, a Bengaluru-based spacetech startup and India’s first to launch private commercial satellites in space, has raised $36 million in a Series B funding round from Google. The funding round also saw the participation of Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, GrowX, Sparta and Athera. As per the startup, the freshly […]
Bengaluru-Based Spacetech Startup Pixxel Raises $7.3 Million In Seed Funding
Pixxel, a Bengaluru-based spacetech startup, has raised $7.3 million in a seed funding round from Omnivore and Techstars. Existing investors, including Lightspeed Ventures, Blume Ventures, growX, Ryan Johnson, and others, also participated in the funding round. The present funding follows-up Pixxel’s $5 million seed funding round raised in August 2020. As per […]
Bengaluru-Based Pixxel’s First Satellite ‘Anand’ To Be Launched In February 2021 On ISRO’s PSLV-C51 Mission
Just two weeks after satellite imaging startup Pixxel joined hands with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for launching its satellite, it received another good news. Recently, Indian space agency ISRO announced that Pixxel’s first satellite ‘Anand’ will be launched in its PSLV-C51 (polar satellite launch vehicle) mission in early 2021. Announcing […]
Spacetech Startup Pixxel And NSIL Comes Together To Launch A Remote-Sensing Satellite On ISRO Rocket
Pixxel, India’s first private satellite-imaging company, has joined hands with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) to launch Pixxel’s first remote-sensing satellite on an ISRO PSLV rocket in early 2021. Pixxel, along with NSIL (a Central Public Sector Enterprise of Government of India and the commercial arm of ISRO) will come together […]
Indian SpaceTech Startup ‘Pixxel’ Raises $5 Million In Seed Funding
Bengaluru-based space tech startup Pixxel has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Blume Ventures, growX Ventures, and Lightspeed Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from Ryan Johnson, a veteran in earth imaging and CEO at Blackbridge. Stanford Angels and Inventus Capital also participated in the […]