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Space · El Segundo, CA · Founded 2021 · Raised $598M · Growth stage

Varda Space Industries

Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform

Review note$251M Series D announced Sep 30, 'brings total capital raised... to $598 million'; founded January 2021. Source ↗

Edge

21#52 · ▲9 in 7d

3 of 8 families

Why now

  1. 67 of 110 open roles posted in the last 30 days, against 14 in the 30 days before

    Hiring · Oct 15

  2. Received FCC special temporary authority for space operations, 44 days after filing

    Regulatory · Sep 2

  3. Email runs on Microsoft 365 GCC High or DoD (MX at office365.us), a US government cloud for controlled data

    Traffic · Undated

Score

Momentum63

 

Regulatory, hiring, traffic

Thesis fit98

× 0.98

Matched on dod, hypersonic, industrial, low earth orbit, manufacturing

Earliness1

× 0.41

Already visible: capital raised, funding stage

Team–

× 0.85

No people identified yet

63 × 0.98 × 0.41 × 0.85 = 21

Edge, 12 weeks

Signals

  1. Oct 15Hiring67 of 110 open roles posted in the last 30 days, against 14 in the 30 days before↗
  2. Sep 2RegulatoryReceived FCC special temporary authority for space operations, 44 days after filing↗

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 4 vendor tools: Smartsheet Gov, Smartsheet, DocuSign and Atlassian↗
  3. AttentionMentioned 16 times on Hacker News to date↗
  4. TrafficDomain rank improved from 1,173,723 to 1,031,654 in 30 days, within the normal range↗