Lemur-2
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| Private | |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | Peter Platzer, Joel Spark, Jeroen Cappaert |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Number of locations
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3 (2015) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Peter Platzer (CEO) Russell Muzzolini (CTO) |
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Number of employees
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50-100 |
| Website | spire |
Spire Global, Inc. is an American private company specializing in data gathered from a network of small satellites. It has successfully deployed twelve Earth observation CubeSats into Low Earth orbit. The company has offices in San Francisco, Glasgow, Singapore, and Boulder.
Spire was founded in 2012 and opened offices in San Francisco. The company later opened offices in Glasgow, Singapore, and Boulder. The company was founded to create ArduSat, a crowd-funded satellite, which was launched on August 3, 2013. Crowd funding in the amount of $106,330 was raised via Kickstarter. The startup was incubated at Lemnos Labs and investments totaling $1.5M were made in a seed round by Shasta Ventures, Emerge, Beamonte Investments, Grishin Robotics, and Lemnos Labs. On July 29, 2014, Spire announced an additional $25M Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures and backed by Emerge, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Qihoo, 360 Technology, and Moose Capital. On June 30, 2015, the company announced a $40 Million Series B led by Promus Ventures with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and Jump Capital.
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