person

Rafel Jorda Siquier

Aerospace engineer and co-founder of Open Cosmos, where he is chief executive. He studied at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and previously worked at Airbus Defence and Space and the startup zero2infinity.

Known aliases

Rafel Jordà Siquier

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Current clusters

product1 publisher

Open Cosmos puts €300M behind four factories rated at one satellite a day

The Harwell company says five profitable years and more than $370M of signed contracts back the round, and the concrete gain it can show is Earth observation intelligence arriving in 30 minutes, down from up to 48 hours.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption42
Hype gap+28
Incentives72
Confidence45

invest2 publishers

Open Cosmos raises 300 million euros against contract intake of about 106 million dollars a year

The round is one of several nine-figure European space raises this year. It goes to a manufacturer that says it has been profitable for five years and had not taken outside money since a 50 million dollar Series B in 2023.

Publishers:sifted.eutechfundingnews.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption48
Hype gap+28
Incentives72
Confidence52