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Space · San Francisco, CA · Founded 2017 · Raised $326.2M · Growth stage

Loft Orbital

Builds and operates shareable satellites so customers can fly a payload without building a spacecraft

Review noteA nine-year-old, roughly 350-person satellite-as-a-service unicorn (Series C $170M, BlackRock/Temasek/Tikehau) with offices in San Francisco, Golden CO, Toulouse and Abu Dhabi. Widely known. Source ↗

Edge

12#164 · ▼1 in 7d

2 of 8 families

Why now

  1. 22 of 65 open roles posted in the last 30 days, against 9 in the 30 days before

    Hiring · Oct 15

  2. Domain rank 1,030,585 after a 90-day climb that beat 89% of similar sites, flat over the last 30 days

    Traffic · Oct 11

People

Score

Momentum36

 

Hiring, traffic

Thesis fit93

× 0.95

Matched on earth observation, national security, orbital, satellite, spacecraft

Earliness2

× 0.41

Already visible: capital raised, funding stage

Team–

× 0.85

1 named person, none from a top lab or company

36 × 0.95 × 0.41 × 0.85 = 12

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 15Hiring22 of 65 open roles posted in the last 30 days, against 9 in the 30 days before↗
  2. Oct 11TrafficDomain rank 1,030,585 after a 90-day climb that beat 89% of similar sites, flat over the last 30 days↗
  3. Sep 1HiringWho is hiring post on Hacker News; at least 5 earlier threads↗

Undated

  1. AttentionMentioned 17 times on Hacker News to date↗
  2. TrafficDomain rank improved from 1,022,545 to 991,163 in 30 days, within the normal range↗