Capella Space Labs

Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 24/7 SAR data for government and commercial customers.

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Acquired by IIonQ on May 7, 2025 · payloadspace.com.

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Capella Space Labs | 931 days from website to first raise on record

@capellaspace·Raised $176M in 3 sourced rounds·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. May 7, 2025
   Acquired by IIonQ
   Source: payloadspace.com
2. January 11, 2023
   Round · $60M
   Source: fundraisingfox.com
3. April 25, 2022
   Series B+ · $97M
   NNightDragon (lead), AAlumni Ventures, CCota Capital, DDCVC, PPalapa Ventures
   Source: finsmes.com
4. September 26, 2018
   Series B+ · $19M
   DDCVC (lead), SSpark Capital (lead), AAlumni Ventures, AArtiman Ventures, HHarmony Partners, MMark Ventures
   Source: finsmes.com
5. May 9, 2017
   X account created
6. March 9, 2016
   Website created
7. Date unknown
   PPear VC · accelerator or program
   Source: pear.vc

Founders and team

• PB
  Payam Banazadeh Founder

  @payamban · LinkedIn
• UT
  Uri Tintore Founder

  LinkedIn
• WW
  Will Woods Founder
• DB
  Dan Brophy Vice President, Government Services
• DC
  Dan Connors General Counsel & Secretary
• DH
  David Hemphill Senior Technical Product Manager
• JH
  Joerg Herrmann SVP of Special Projects
• KS
  Keith Spicher Corporate Controller
• NR
  Nate Ricklin VP Product Engineering

Investors

• AAlumni Ventures
• AAME Cloud Ventures
• AArtiman Ventures
• CCota Capital
• DDCVClead investor
• HHarmony Partners
• MManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)
• MMark Ventures
• NNightDragonlead investor
• PPalapa Ventures
• PPear VCaccelerator
• SSpark Capitallead investor
• UUS Innovative Technology Fund

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