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    Development stage

    Generating revenue

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    Investment stage

    Series A

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    Technology readiness level

    TRL 9

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Why invest

HEO invented the commercial Non-Earth Imaging category, forced US regulatory change, and holds active defence and commercial contracts. No competitor has their sensor network, data archive, or sovereign trust.

HEO uses cameras mounted on satellites to photograph and analyse other objects in orbit.

HEO invented commercial Non-Earth Imaging (NEI) by repurposing commercial satellites to image other objects in space. They provide governments and operators with resolved, persistent visual intelligence on satellites. HEO leverages the world's largest commercial NEI dataset and the largest NEI satellite network to deliver space intelligence at scale. With commercial and defence contracts in Five Eyes Plus nations, HEO is the inspection layer on which the space economy is built.

Investment categories

Artificial intelligence, Defence & dual use, Intelligent systems & software, Remote sensing

  • Defence and intelligence agencies face proliferated constellations and orbital threats, while commercial satellites need tools to monitor and repair them. Traditional monitoring wasn't built for this.

    HEO’s software platform autonomously finds, plans, and tasks in-orbit satellites to capture high-resolution imagery of objects in orbit. Through a unified software platform, customers also access data and analytics to answer a question they couldn't before: what exactly is that object, and what is it doing?
    • Governments and satellite operators cannot see what's happening in orbit with the necessary resolution or persistence.
    • Adversarial capabilities and behaviour go undetected, and attribution and anomaly detection remain unsolved.
    • In-space servicing has no inspection layer. Ground-based radar tells you where an object is. HEO shows you what it's doing.
    • Defence & intelligence agencies (Fives Eyes Plus)
    • Commercial satellite operators
    • In-space servicing providers
    • National space agencies
    • 3x revenue growth through active and repeat defence and commercial contracts in the US, Japan, Europe, and Australia.
    • $12M Series A raised in 2023. Investors include Airtree, In-Q-Tel, Y Combinator, Salus, Beaten Zone.
    • Partnerships with leading space companies such as Astroscale, BlackSky, Satellogic, Axelspace, Impulse Space.

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