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Near Space Labs

Aerial imagery and earth observation

Near Space Labs logo
21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Big data
  • Flights
  • Robotics
  • API
  • Science
  • Aerospace
Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY

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Company mission

Near Space Labs' mission is to democratize high-quality geospatial intelligence.

Led by a woman

2% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Near Space Labs provides customers with high-res imagery of the earth. The twist is, this isn’t satellite imagery, but imagery collected by a zero-emission fleet of wind-powered weather balloons, each one able to capture up to 1,000 square kilometres of imagery on each flight. This makes for an eco-friendly, low-cost alternative to satellite imagery and results in images up to 50 times clearer than those collected by satellite.

Over 500 flights were booked by customers over 2022 alone. Near Space’s cameras are already unlocking crucial intelligence for clients as diverse as local councils, wildlife trackers, and insurance companies.

It’s a remarkable development, unlocking the power of geospatial data for customers who would never have depended on it before, and it therefore cracks open a whole new market in which Near Space is an uncontested player.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 25 days paid time off
  • Equity
  • Annual team offsites
  • Visit our New York & Barcelona offices
  • Learning & development reimbursement
  • Opportunity to attend a balloon launch

Funding (1 round)

Sep 2021

$13m

SERIES A

Total funding: $13m

Leadership

Rema Matevosyan

(CEO)

Previously a software developer with InnoRise, then at the Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently held a junior research fellowship at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

Ignasi Lluch

(CTO)

Worked on the Galileo Evolutions Team at the European Space Agency, and then as a Space Systems Engineering Researcher at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

Albert Caubert

(Chief Engineer)

Previously an engineer at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales, then did his PhD as a Marie Curie Researcher at the University of Strathclyde. Subsequently held an AOCS engineering role at OHB SE.