OurSky, a Los Angeles, CA-based developer platform for space data applications, raised $9.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Upfront Ventures and Venrex Investment Management alongside Oceans Ventures, Marlinspike Partners, and Embedded Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Co-founded by CEO Dan Roelker, previously VP of Software Engineering at SpaceX, and Alex Hawkinson, previously founder of SmartThings, OurSky provides real-time observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space via its software platform and global array of telescopes. Beyond the platform offering, OurSky is also actively contributing advancements back to the open source astronomy communities to foster innovation and enable others around the world to support new applications and discovery. It has also launched a free integration with NINA, an open-source astrophotography tool, enabling NINA’s more than 50,000 users to join OurSky and receive real-time processing of their images.
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08/12/2023