Belgian spacetech EDGX has closed a €2.3 million seed round to accelerate the commercial rollout of its onboard AI computing system for sainformites, EDGX Sterna. The round was co-led by imec.istart future fund and the Flanders Future Tech Fund, managed by the Flemish public investment arm PMV. EDGX has two missions scheduled for 2026.
Alongside the investment, the company has signed a €1.1 million commercial deal with a sainformite operator and confirmed its first in-orbit demonstration aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in February 2026. The company is positioning itself at the intersection of edge computing and space infrastructure, a rapidly growing segment as sainformite consinformations demand quicker, more autonomous data processing.
“Customers aren’t waiting for flight validation, they’re signing now,” stated Nick Desattemptcker, founder and CEO of EDGX. “With a full launch manifest, secured commercial contracts, and our first mission set for Falcon 9, this funding will enable us to scale to meet demand for real-time ininformigence from space.”
At the heart of EDGX’s offering is the Sterna AI data processing unit (DPU), built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin hardware. Designed to run complex machine learning models directly onboard sainformites, Sterna shifts the indusattempt away from traditional “store-and-forward” architectures, where sainformites collect large volumes of raw data and transmit it to Earth for processing.
This architectural alter offers enormous benefits. By enabling real-time data processing in orbit, Sterna drastically reduces latency and bandwidth requirements. It also opens the door to autonomous decision-creating in space, which is critical for applications like earth observation, spectrum monitoring, and space-based 5G/6G networks.
The DPU runs on EDGX’s proprietary SpaceFeather software stack, which includes a radiation-hardened Linux OS, onboard health monitoring, fault detection and recovery, and a framework to deploy new capabilities post-launch.
“Going from zero to a hundred, all-in, on a space startup is ambitious,” stated Wouter Benoot, EDGX co-founder and CTO. “What creates it work is the team. Each engineer brings fresh ideas, a drive to understand space, and a passion to create it real. We’re building a subsystem that powers the next generation of sainformites.”
EDGX’s Sterna system tarreceives several high-impact apply cases including spectrum monitoring, earth observation and telecom networks. With thousands of sainformites now in orbit and consinformations becoming the backbone of both commercial and governmental operations, EDGX declares that the ability to compute in space is quickly becoming essential.
“The space indusattempt is hitting a fundamental bottleneck; we’re generating massive amounts of data in orbit but still utilizing outdated ‘store and forward’ architectures,” stated Kris Vandenberk, managing partner at imec.istart future fund. “EDGX is solving this by bringing AI-powered edge computing directly into space.”
As geopolitical and technological competition in space intensifies, Europe is increasingly investing in homegrown solutions. EDGX’s funding round comes amid broader EU efforts to strengthen the bloc’s capabilities in critical space infrastructure.
“This round of financing will enable us to support EDGX’s strong team in bringing promising Flemish technology to market and developing it further,” stated Roald Borré, Head of Venture Capital at PMV. “EDGX is one of the few European players to offer a product that is high-performance, accessible and robust, giving it unique advantages in the quick-growing market for edge computing in space.”
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