Funding Details
- Awarder
- RSS - spacenews.com
- Date Award
- July 24, 2024
- Vertical
- Space-based solar power
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2024
- Traction
- The company plans to double its staff and conduct ground and space-based demonstrations of its technology to showcase its capabilities. Star Catcher aims to meet the power needs of spacecraft in low-Earth orbit and enable advanced data processing and communication capabilities in space.
- Organizations Involved
- Initialized Capital, B Capital, Rogue VC
- Founders
- Andrew Rush, Michael Snyder, Bryan Lyandvert
- Company Description
- Star Catcher Industries is focused on beaming solar energy to spacecraft in low-Earth orbit. Their space-based energy grid aims to deliver broad solar spectrum energy on demand to client spacecraft's solar arrays, providing them with significantly more power than they can generate on their own. The company plans to scale rapidly and generate revenue by meeting the increasing power needs of spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.
- Market
- Space
- Location
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Jacksonville,
FL,
US
- Coinvestors
- Initialized Capital, B Capital, Rogue VC
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