Array Labs, Inc. just raised a $20M Series A, and this is one of those rounds that does not shout because it does not need to. Palo Alto roots, founded in 2021, Y Combinator S22, and quietly building hardware that sees through clouds, darkness, and bad assumptions with equal indifference.
Array Labs designs and manufactures space-based synthetic aperture radar systems that generate high-resolution 3D representations of Earth. Not postcard imagery. Not optimistic interpretations. Actual volumetric truth. Multiple small satellites flying in formation, acting together, creating depth where the industry has been content with flatness for decades.
The Series A was led by Catapult Ventures, with Washington Harbour Partners and Kompas VC joining, while Y Combinator, Maiora Capital, Animal Capital, Aera VC, Cultivation Capital, and Clearance Ventures returned with conviction. Total funding now sits at $35M, capital aimed squarely at scaling radar manufacturing, completing flight qualification, and preparing an operational four-satellite cluster for launch.
Andrew Peterson, Co-Founder and CEO, has been living in radar long enough to know the difference between novelty and advantage. Isaac Robledo, Co-Founder, Strategy and Go-To-Market, brings the commercial spine that turns deep tech into signed contracts instead of science projects. The team has grown to roughly 60, backed by nine-digit commercial bookings that signal demand, not hope.
The hardware is where the story sharpens. Suitcase-sized satellites pushing roughly 4 kW each, designed with consumer-electronics discipline instead of bespoke defense pricing. Formation-flying multistatic SAR unlocks 3D point clouds, surface models, volumetrics, and change detection that work day or night, rain or smoke, excuses irrelevant.
Government customers already span multiple U.S. defense and research agencies, supported by roughly $15M in competitive awards. Commercial use cases run from mining and infrastructure to embodied AI and autonomous systems, with John Deere pulling space-based 3D directly into dirt-level decision making.
Partnerships with Maxar Intelligence, Raytheon, Umbra, and In-Q-Tel are not decorative. They are distribution, validation, and pressure testing at scale. Site3D moves radar into operational terrain. Earthside turns raw signal into structured intelligence.
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