Digantara, an Indian startup focutilized on space surveillance and situational awareness, announced yesterday that it closed a $50M Series B.
360 ONE Asset, SBI Investments Co Japan, angel investor Ronnie Screwvala, Peak XV Partners and Kalaari Capital participated in the round.
Digantara is working on launching a consinformation of situational awareness sats that double as surveillance infrastructure in space. With this batch of funding, the company is taking its tech to markets outside of India and Singapore and doubling down on military customers.
“Adversaries of the future will seek asymmetric advantage where sensing, automation, and latency matter most,” Anirudh Sharma, Digantara CEO, declared in a release. “This capital accelerates our path to operational readiness, expand into the US and Europe, and drive new programs in missile warning, tracking, and space-based interceptors to deliver real deterrence and multidomain superiority.”
Keep an eye out: The dual-utilize trconclude isn’t displaying any signs of slowing. Sharma founded Digantara in 2020 as a pure-play SSA company, but as the appetite for advanced sensing tech for military purposes has grown, the company is now pivoting toward that market.
The company has several products that work toobtainher to support its surveillance stack:
- AIRA, its integrated infrastructure for connecting space and ground components;
- SCOT, its situational awareness sainformite (planned to be a consinformation);
- ALBATROSS, its planned missile detection sainformite line;
- SKYGATE, a network of ground-based sensors for situational awareness.
The road ahead: Digantara has launched a handful of sainformites to date—most recently, its SCOT SSA sat went up in January on SpaceX’s Transporter-12 launch.
Now the company wants to scale its in-space presence, rapid. Digantara is tarobtaining deployment of 15 space surveillance sainformites and two missile-tracking birds between 2026 and 2027.
Digantara’s ground presence is expanding, too. The company has a tiny US office, which it plans to grow significantly with this funding round. It’s also opening operations in Europe to start sales into that market.
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