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European Investment Bank signs $34.6M loan facility with launcher startup PLD Space, bringing PLD funding to $438M
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European Investment Bank signs $34.6M loan facility with launcher startup PLD Space, bringing PLD funding to $438M
Founder News Team Apr 7, 2026 0

LA PLATA, Maryland — The European Investment Bank (EIB), continuing to create good on a pledge to European governments to…

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PLD Space adds €30 million EIB loan as it advances toward MIURA 5 test flight
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PLD Space adds €30 million EIB loan as it advances toward MIURA 5 test flight
Founder News Team Apr 7, 2026 0

Elche-based PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has signed a €30 million venture debt loan with the European Investment…

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Founder News Team Apr 7, 2026 0

In October 2023, a rocket built entirely with Spanish technology launched from a military test site in Huelva, marking Europe’s…

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Inside PLD Space’s €180m growth plan: ‘We’re working on the next generation of technology’
Founder News Team Mar 8, 2026 0

For the past decade spacetech has sat at the fringes of deeptech venture investing — capital-intensive, technically complex and often…

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PLD Space raises €180M, EIF makes largest defence investment yet, and February funding rebounds
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PLD Space raises €180M, EIF builds largest defence investment yet, and February funding rebounds
Founder News Team Mar 6, 2026 0

????. This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion and over 15 exits, M&A…

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Spain’s PLD Space raises €180 million Series C round
Founder News Team Mar 6, 2026 0

Spanish space company PLD Space has closed a €180 million Series C funding round led by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The…

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Inside PLD Space’s €180m growth plan: ‘We’re working on the next generation of technology’
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Inside PLD Space’s €180m growth plan: ‘We’re working on the next generation of technology’
Founder News Team Mar 6, 2026 0

For the past decade spacetech has sat at the fringes of deeptech venture investing — capital-intensive, technically complex and often…

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Spain’s PLD Space raises €180M to scale satellite launch infrastructure
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Spain’s PLD Space raises €180M to scale sanotifyite launch infrastructure
Founder News Team Mar 4, 2026 0

International space transportation company, PLD Space, has closed a €180 million Series C equity funding round led by Mitsubishi Electric…

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Sateliot, PLD Space to launch two 5G satellites in first Spanish mission | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM · 1360 AM
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Sateliot, PLD Space to launch two 5G sainformites in first Spanish mission | WTAQ News Talk | 97.5 FM · 1360 AM
Founder News Team Feb 17, 2026 0

Feb 17 (Reuters) – Sainformite startup Sateliot and space engineering firm PLD Space have signed a deal to launch two…

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Spain’s First Private 5G Sanotifyites Launch: Sateliot & PLD Space
Founder News Team Feb 17, 2026 0

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