Kapta Space raises $24 million Series A, secures MTI contracts
Kapta’s modular MESA architecture rethinks how electronically steerable radar payloads are built. This software-defined architecture is designed to deliver advanced radar performance with lower cost, power requirements and manufacturing complexity.
Kapta Space, a Seattle-based developer of next-generation spaceborne radar payloads, has announced a USD 24 million Series A financing led by Washington Harbour Partners and co-led by Bison Ventures, with participation from MetaVC and a group of new and existing investors including MYDA Capital, Entrada Ventures, Aurelia Foundry, and Fitz Gate Ventures. The round brings Kapta’s total funding to USD 30 million.
The funding will help Kapta scale production of its technology to support multiple classified moving target indication (MTI) contracts the company secured earlier this year, the start-up said.
Kapta’s modular Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) architecture rethinks how electronically steerable radar payloads are built. This software-defined architecture is designed to deliver advanced radar performance with lower cost, power requirements and manufacturing complexity than traditional AESA approaches, unlocking a path to sensing at scale.
“This investment allows us to advance our technology, expand manufacturing, and work with strategic partners to bring that capability through flight qualification and into contracted orbital missions, opening the door to a new class of persistent tracking and advanced ISR missions from orbit,” said Milton Perque, Founder and CEO of Kapta Space.
“For decades, traditional AESA payloads have been too costly and complex to deploy at the scale required for missions like MTI,” said Mina Faltas, Founder and CEO of Washington Harbour Partners. “Kapta’s MESA architecture changes that equation with a modular, highly manufacturable approach to electronically steerable radar. We believe its combination of performance, cost and scalability will make Kapta a foundational supplier to the next generation of US and allied space architectures, and we're thrilled to lead the Series A.”
Ben Hemani, Founding Partner at Bison Ventures, added that by making space-based radar more scalable, cost-effective and manufacturable, Kapta was enabling persistent sensing at a scale traditional architectures weren’t built to support.
