Top 20 Space BigData Processing startups

Updated: Feb 07, 2026
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These startups are processing vast amounts of data from space missions, satellites and telescopes.
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Satellogic
Country: Uruguay | Funding: $433.8M
Satellogic will democratize access to space-based services by dramatically reducing the barriers to obtain real-time satellite data.
2
BlackSky
Country: USA | Funding: $440.4M
BlackSky Global is a satellite-imaging-as-a-service startup.
3
Slingshot Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $148.9M
Slingshot Aerospace develops an integrated AI platform for processing real-time and historical satellite data and delivers it to customers via modular APIs, MCP servers or SaaS interfaces. The platform's customers include both space companies requiring data for orbital risk and maneuver planning and ground-based companies for monitoring and planning ground operations (particularly military ops). Slingshot's proprietary sensor network is the world's only day/night optical observation network from low-Earth orbit to geostationary orbit, providing high-frequency observations and tracking in near-real time. The AI ​​model combines historical trends with real-time data to highlight anomalies, detect unexpected events, and identify emerging operational risks early to ensure rapid response and coordination.
4
LiveEO
Country: Germany | Funding: $65M
LiveEO provides earth observation technologies and solutions.
5
Open Cosmos
Country: UK | Funding: $62.6M
Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
6
AAC Clyde Space
Country: Sweden
AAC Clyde Space specialises in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space.
7
Kuva Space
Country: Finland | Funding: €23.3M
Kuva Space improves life on Earth by using the world's most extensive hyperspectral satellite constellation and artificial intelligence. The company's platform addresses some of the world's most important concerns, including climate change, disaster response, food demand, and safety and security.
8
SatSure
Country: India | Funding: $24.6M
SatSure uses satellite data to offer ‘decision intelligence’ across the BFSI, agriculture, and infrastructure sectors.
9
Starcloud
Country: USA | Funding: $23.9M
Starcloud offers cloud computing and data relay to satellites in space. The company has already launched a satellite with an Nvidia H100 GPU into orbit, becoming the first to launch a LLM on a powerful Nvidia GPU beyond Earth. The satellite also carries Gemma, Google's open source large-scale language model. This makes it the world's first data center for AI in space.
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OurSky
Country: USA | Funding: $16M
OurSky is a developer platform for space applications that provides observational data and analysis of objects and activities in space.
Boris Maslennikov
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com