Loft Orbital
Space Made Simple
Space / Defense
📍 San Francisco, California
Founded 2017
Current Valuation
$954M
as of 2025-Q1
PRIVATE
Loft Orbital is a space infrastructure company that provides simple, fast, and reliable ways to deploy missions to low Earth orbit. The company operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads as a service, handling all elements of a satellite campaign end-to-end including booking, launching, operating, licensing, insurance, and financing. Loft has developed standardized satellite platforms with hardware and software abstraction layers that de-couple customer payloads from the underlying satellite. Customers include NASA, Microsoft, Anduril, BAE Systems, US Space Force, French Space Agency (CNES), European Space Agency, EarthDaily Analytics, Helsing, and Eutelsat.
Company Profile
HQ
San Francisco, California
Est. Revenue
$140M (2025-Q1)
Growth
Doubled revenue for multiple consecutive years, over $500M lifetime bookings, scaling from handful of satellites per year to 10+ annually, reached unicorn status with $954M valuation
Last Round
Series C — $170M (Jan 2025)
Founders & Key People
Pierre-Damien VaujourAlex GreenbergAntoine de Chassy
Investors
Tikehau Capital · AXIAL Partners · Temasek · Supernova Invest · Tribeca Venture Partners · Starburst · GSBackers · Bpifrance · Arkenstone Partners · BlackRock · CEAS Investments · Timber Grove Ventures · Space.VC · Kube VC · GRIDS Capital · Mistral Equity Partners · Chaos Ventures · Soundproof Ventures · Heroic Ventures · ATX Venture Partners · Flucas Ventures · Foundation Capital · Uncork Capital · Ubiquity Ventures · Cendana Capital · Swell · Kima Ventures · GFA Venture Partners · V1.VC · MDI Ventures · Mercuria Investment · RESTEC · Shobunsha Publications · Alumni Ventures Group · Launchbay Capital · Samsung Venture Investment Corporation · Woori Ventures · Gore Creek · Modern Venture Partners · NIH SBIR/STTR
Products
- YAM (Yet Another Mission) satellites
- MOSAIC payload-hosting platform
- Loft Federal (defense and classified programs)
- Hub (modular payload adapter)
- Cockpit (mission operations software)
- Virtual Missions (AI applications onboard satellites)
- Physical Missions (payload hosting service)
Competitors
Spire Global · Planet Labs · Capella Space · Iridium
Space InfrastructureSatellite-as-a-ServicePayload HostingSpace TechUnicornDefense ContractingEarth ObservationAI in SpaceCommercial SpaceLEO Satellites
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q1. Refreshed quarterly.