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Space · Torrance, CA OR Seattle, WA · Founded 2022 · Raised $1B · Growth stage

K2 Space

Building the largest satellites in orbit

Review note$500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation co-led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ on Jul 30, 'over $1 billion in capital' raised, founded 2022 in Torrance. Source ↗

Edge

23#44 · ▲9 in 7d

3 of 8 families

Why now

  1. Domain rank rose from 871,478 to 634,158 in 30 days, a bigger gain than 91% of similarly ranked sites

    Traffic · Oct 18

  2. Filed 5 trademark applications in 16 days for satellites, all intent to use, including K2 EDGE COMPUTE

    Regulatory · Sep 24

  3. 26 of 250 open roles posted in the last 30 days, against 50 in the 30 days before

    Hiring · Oct 16

People

Score

Momentum67

 

Regulatory, hiring, traffic

Thesis fit100

× 1.00

Matched on aerospace, cislunar, constellation, dod, factory

Earliness0

× 0.40

Already visible: capital raised, headcount

Team–

× 0.85

1 named person, none from a top lab or company

67 × 1.00 × 0.40 × 0.85 = 23

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 18TrafficDomain rank rose from 871,478 to 634,158 in 30 days, a bigger gain than 91% of similarly ranked sites↗
  2. Oct 16Hiring26 of 250 open roles posted in the last 30 days, against 50 in the 30 days before↗
  3. Oct 2HiringWho is hiring post on Hacker News; at least 1 earlier thread↗
  4. Sep 24RegulatoryFiled 5 trademark applications in 16 days for satellites, all intent to use, including K2 EDGE COMPUTE↗
  5. Sep 4RegulatoryApplied for a new FCC experimental license for a non-geostationary satellite on 400.4 MHz and 4 other bands↗
  6. Sep 4RegulatoryApplied for a new FCC experimental license for a non-geostationary satellite on 400.4 MHz and 2 other bands↗
  7. Jul 26TrafficCertificates issued in the last 120 days name 2 notable subdomains: console-hq and email.talent↗

Undated

  1. TrafficEmail runs on Microsoft 365 GCC High or DoD (MX at office365.us), a US government cloud for controlled data↗
  2. TrafficDNS records name 6 vendor tools including Mailchimp, Autodesk, Smartsheet Gov, Smartsheet and Rippling↗
  3. AttentionMentioned 11 times on Hacker News to date↗
  4. TrafficDomain rank improved from 964,572 to 702,102 in 30 days, within the normal range↗