36 Best Earth Observation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Earth Observation Startups

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There are 36 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $35.9m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$37.3m

Money raised

Pixxel is a Bengalore and El Segundo, California-based developer of hyperspectral satellite imagery for the capture of geospatial data.

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4

Funding Rounds

$270.0m

Money raised

ICEYE provides commercial access to Earth observation data. The ICEYE SAR Satellite Constellation captures images of any location on Earth every three hours, day and night, regardless of cloud cover.

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5

Funding Rounds

$177.0m

Money raised

Capella Space is building a commercial radar satellite constellation. Its headquarters are located in San Francisco, California and it was founded in 2011.

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5

Funding Rounds

$75.0m

Money raised

An information technology services company that uses geospatial imagery to create property intelligence for buildings within the United States. It is located in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2014.

5

Funding Rounds

$128.7m

Money raised

Orbital Insight is a U.S-based company developing geospatial analytics software.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

Kleos Space is a company that provides geo-locational intelligence data services

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5

Funding Rounds

$198.8m

Money raised

Gro Intelligence is a company that supplies global agriculture data and builds predictive models

2

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Kairos Aerospace is an aerospace company that is interested in researching and engineering alternatives to traditional aerospace solutions

2

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

A company providing the digital infrastructure for distributing earth observation data and derived intelligence.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

HyperVerge is an AI company with solutions powering applications for large enterprise clients in Financial Services, Telecom, Energy, Security, and Defense.

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4

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

CrowdAI is a company providing scalable and high-quality image annotation founded in 2016 by Pablo Garcia, Nicolas Borensztein and Devaki Raj.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.9m

Money raised

OroraTech is an AI-powered wildfire detection platform founded in 2018 by Thomas Grübler, Martin Langer, Rupert Amann and Florian Mauracher .

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8

Funding Rounds

$35.4m

Money raised

Hydrosat is a company founded in 2017.

2

Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

AiDash is an AI-first vertical SaaS company. AiDash is a SaaS company that enables satellite-powered operations and maintenance for utility, energy, and other core industries.

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2

Funding Rounds

$75.0k

Money raised

KorrAI helps mining companies make smarter exploration and extraction decisions using Computer Vision.

4

Funding Rounds

$36.8m

Money raised

Orbital Sidekick is a company founded in 2016.

9

Funding Rounds

$5.6m

Money raised

Global Surface Intelligence Ltd. is an earth observation and artificial intelligence provider founded by Nigel Douglas.

3

Funding Rounds

$18.0m

Money raised

Astraea is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based company founded in 2016 by Brendan Richardson.

2

Funding Rounds

$68.4m

Money raised

Data analytics platform aiding global energy market participants in making better investment decisions.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.6m

Money raised

Land Life Company is an Amsterdam-based company providing reforestation services.

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1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Atlas AI Limited is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2019 by David Lobell, Marshall Burke and Stefano Ermon.

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2

Funding Rounds

$652.8k

Money raised

GeoOptics is developing a constellation of small satellites to collect data about Earth's climate and environment from low Earth orbit (LEO). The constellation is called CICERO and the first operational satellite was launched in January 2018.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.4m

Money raised

Earth Science Analytics is an Artificial Intelligence petroleum geoscience software provider

2

Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

Developer of an enterprise platform designed to deliver physical property characteristics and predictive analysis. The company's platform provides customers with deep-learning powered structured data observations and predictions for residential and commercial properties generated from satellite, aerial, and ground-level imagery along with other data sources, enabling businesses to get access to accurate measurement and predictive data.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.5m

Money raised

Making high resolution, high frequency imagery widely accessible.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

Satelligence specializes in remote sensing, natural resource management, and tracking deforestation with satellite data analytics.

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2

Funding Rounds

$17.9m

Money raised

Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources.

1

Funding Rounds

$600.0k

Money raised

Orbio is a track methane emissions via satellites founded in 2021 by Jack Angela.

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1

Funding Rounds

$11.4m

Money raised

A new approach to locate, quantify and track carbon dioxide and methane emissions using a small satellite constellation

1

Funding Rounds

Earth Observant is based in Half Moon Bay, California, Earth Observant's low flying satellites offer affordable ultra high resolution earth imagery to customers in the defense, intelligence, civil government and commercial industries.

1

Funding Rounds

$175.0k

Money raised

Terramonitor is a Helsinki-based company providing systems for analyzing, building, and organizing geographical information into actionable insights.

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$1.6m

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Geographic analysis and data visualization service for land use planning and environmental protection.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

Hula is a biodiversity monitoring solutions provider founded in 2023 by Florian Geiser.

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1

Funding Rounds

$250.0k

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Chloris Geospatial Inc. is a company founded in 2021.

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