Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt raised an $8 million seed round to run AI workloads on third-party satellites.
Satlyt, founded by former Google and SpaceX product manager Rama Afullo, raised an $8 million seed round led by Non Sibi Ventures to run AI on other companies' satellites. The company has already flown its software twice, including Google DeepMind's Gemma on a Momentus spacecraft, which cut one error-report transmission by more than 60%. An upcoming TakeMe2Space mission will host workloads for NASA, Stellerian, and TakeMe2Space. Satlyt plans a two-satellite shared compute demonstration next year.
- Eight-million-dollar seed round led by Non Sibi Ventures.
- Builds satellite AI software rather than its own spacecraft.
- Gemma on Momentus cut an error report by over 60%.
- Next flight hosts NASA and Stellerian processing workloads.
- Countries
- United StatesKenya
- AI models
- Gemma
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Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
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