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Spire Global

Satellite data analytics

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201-500 employees
  • B2B
  • Big data
  • Analytics
  • Environmental
Tysons, VA

Company mission

To provide our customers with comprehensive data and analytics that protect our environment and our communities, transform global logistics, contribute to economic stability, and put moonshot goals within reach.

Top investors

18% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

There’s been an increasing focus on big data in recent years, and Spire Global aims to lead the field in the biggest data of all - Earth Intelligence - with its suite of satellites collecting data from beneath the Earth’s surface to the edge of the atmosphere.

It identifies three main areas of use for its data - Aviation, Maritime, and Weather. Its capabilities in these fields include providing over 660 million position reports each day for the aviation industry, building intelligent routing and tracking systems for maritime shipping, and supplying in-depth weather forecasting and climate impact analysis.

Beyond this, Spire Global's satellite system has countless other applications, such as real-time observation in active conflicts, and wildfire tracking. The company exists within a rapidly-developing market, in which it has already made a big impact. 2023 has seen it collaborate with BlackSky and Skyline Partners, the latter partnership seeing Spire advance into the InsurTech space, as well launch new technology to enable optical inter-satellite links.

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Benefits

  • Health, wellness, and retirement resources
  • Parental and family leave
  • Name your own satellite: Be remembered throughout time by choosing a name for a LEMUR satellite
  • Unbounded, flexible time-off policy

Company values

  • We are global: We use our data to solve global problems. The diverse viewpoints, skills, and experiences of our globally distributed team drives our growth. Our technology covers the entire planet, and our market is the entire world. Whether it’s Kansas or Kuala Lumpur, we meet our customers and partners wherever they are
  • We are unbounded: We are paradigm-free — consistently raising the bar of performance for ourselves and the measure of excellence for our clients. We approach every challenge head-on and with vigor, ready to surface the unknown unknowns that hinder progress. For us, nothing is impossible
  • We are faster: We ferociously tackle customer problems and move with a sense of urgency. We deliver the right result now and constantly iterate to improve. We achieve in a week what used to take years. The world is moving faster, and our customers must respond and make decisions more quickly. The stakes could not be higher, and there isn’t a moment to lose
  • We are reliable: Our customers trust us for their critical business decisions, and our team-mates trust us to deliver the results they need, on time, every time. Whether it’s predicting a ship’s position or the path of a hurricane, we are accountable for our results and consistently deliver excellence
  • We are relentless: We embrace the truth that exceptional outcomes are not possible without exceptional effort, and that tenacity is more valuable than just talent. We strive to deliver a superior customer experience, even and especially when that means countless hours of mundane, unglamorous labor
  • We are collaborative: Our collective success or failure rests with our ability to work effectively, with courtesy and professionalism, with our customers, our team, partners, regulators, and competitors. We always know our customer, asking questions to understand and learn from them, reading between the lines, and working proactively to deliver the right result for them.

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

Aug 2024

$4.3m

GRANT

Sep 2019

$18m

GRANT

Total funding: $200.6m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Joel Spark

(Chief Satellite Architect)

Former Research Assistant at Carleton University, News Editor at SpaceSafetyMagazine.com, and Intern on Space Mechanisms at EADS Astrium Germany.

Former CubeSat and Fluid Mechanics Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center.

Previously worked as a Strategy Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, Head of Quantative Research at The Rohatyn Group, Director of Deutsche Bank, and Nanosatellite Research Intern at NASA Ames Research Center.