Space startups backed by Alumni Ventures
Alumni Ventures has backed 3 space companies tracked by Space Bandits, across software, satellites, propulsion. Those companies have raised $32.9M in disclosed funding between them. All of them are still operating independently.
Lux Aeterna Delphi, a fully reusable satellite designed to launch, land and fly again
Magdrive Metal-fueled plasma propulsion with dramatically higher thrust density
Aethero Radiation-tolerant edge computers bringing AI inference onboard satellites
Rounds we have on record
Every round below names Alumni Ventures in the reporting we cite. This is what the portfolio above is built from, not an inferred relationship.
| Lux Aeterna | Pre-seed: $4M (2025-06)source ↗ |
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| Aethero | Seed: $8.4M, including the $1.7M 2024 pre-seed (2025-06)source ↗ |
| Magdrive | Seed: $10.5M equity; the company cites $22.5M total funding including roughly $10M in UK and ESA grants (2025-02)source ↗ |
Portfolios are built only from funding rounds we have documented with a source, so this shows the space investments we can evidence, not necessarily every one Alumni Ventures has made. Missing something? Tell us and we will add it with the source. How we verify.
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