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Kapta Space raises $24 million to develop satellite radar for tracking moving targets
Seattle-based Kapta Space has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total financing to $30 million.
The company is developing satellite radar payloads designed to track moving targets over land, at sea and in the air.
Its system uses a different approach to steering radar beams, which Kapta says can reduce cost, power use and manufacturing complexity compared with traditional systems.
The company aims to make space-based radar easier to produce and deploy across large satellite constellations.
The new funding will support production and preparations for demonstration missions; the company says it expects to show the hardware in orbit within 24 to 36 months.
Kapta says its radar is intended to support classified missions and could also help track missiles during their mid-course flight.
The company’s program began before the proposed Golden Dome missile-defense shield and, according to its CEO, is meant for broader uses.
Kapta Space announced a $24 million Series A round to expand production of radar payloads designed to track moving targets.
Washington Harbour Partners and Bison Ventures led the round.
The Seattle startup said the funding will support classified moving-target missions and prepare its hardware for spaceflight.
Kapta’s radar is designed to track targets across land, air and sea at lower cost, power use and complexity than traditional systems.
The sources differ on when Kapta was founded: GeekWire says 2023, while Payload says 2022.
- Who
- Kapta Space, a Seattle startup. Washington Harbour Partners and Bison Ventures led the funding round.
- What
- Kapta announced a $24 million Series A to develop and produce radar payloads for tracking moving targets.
- When
- October 9, 2026.
- Where
- Seattle, Washington; the radar payloads are designed for use in space.
- Why
- The funding will support production for classified moving-target missions and prepare the hardware for spaceflight.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
We are executing on two …high-profile demo missions that will lead to highly proliferated MTI missions in the future,
The flight heritage will come in the next 24 to 36 months.
The mission calls for persistent awareness, and that requires us to rethink how radar has to work at constellation scale,
Kapta’s MESA architecture changes that equation with a modular, highly manufacturable approach to electronically steerable radar,
Kapta Space announced a $24 million Series A funding round.
CEO Milton Perque said the company expects its radar to gain flight heritage.
- Series A
- $24 million
- Total financing
- $30 million
- Round leaders
- Washington Harbour Partners and Bison Ventures
- Headquarters
- Seattle, Washington
- Founding year
- GeekWire reports 2023; Payload reports 2022
Sources
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