July 19, 2019
San Francisco-based developer and supplier of small satellites Akash Systems has raised $14.5 million in a series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, ACME Capital, Sriram Krishnan, and Correlation Ventures…
July 18, 2019
…According to TechCrunch, commercial launch services are expected to reach $7bn by 2024, which is increasing demand for start-ups such as Momentus and Akash Systems that offer more than just “basic launch services”.
July 18, 2019
As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing approaches on July 20, there are some startups and investors dissatisfied with simply staying put in the confines of our big blue marble…
July 17, 2019
…The company joins other satellite and telecommunications technology vendors like Akash Systems, which raised $14.5 million for its advanced telecommunications chipsets used in satellites, that have raised money from investors looking beyond basic launch service…
July 15, 2019
San Francisco-based Akash Systems — a company that is aiming to resolve the explosive growth of data collected from space by enabling faster, cheaper, and ubiquitous satellite communications — announced it raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. This round includes $10 million in new equity funds and an additional $4.5 million converted from prior convertible notes…
July 15, 2019
Akash Systems announced the start-up has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding, including $10 million in new equity funds and $4.5 million converted from prior convertible notes. Akash plans to use the capital to scale its transmit/receive radio modules and power amplifier business, moving it closer to profitability. Investors in the round include Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, ACME Capital, Sriram Krishnan and Correlation Ventures…
July 11, 2019
Akash Systems Inc, a San Francisco-based developer and supplier of small satellites, raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. Investors include Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, ACME Capital, Sriram Krishnan and Correlation Ventures.…
July 11, 2019
Akash Systems, a startup focused on resolving the explosive growth of data collected from space by enabling faster, cheaper and ubiquitous satellite communications, has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. This new funding round consists of $10 million in new equity funds, and $4.5 million converted from prior convertible notes…
July 10, 2019
San Francisco-based Akash Systems Inc, which is focused on developing and supplying the next generation of small satellites, has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. The investors included Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, ACME Capital, Sriram Krishnan and Correlation Ventures…
July 10, 2019
WASHINGTON — Akash Systems, a startup building thermally efficient satellite components, has raised $14.5 million through a combination of venture capital and debt converted into equity.
The San Francisco-based company raised $10 million of its recent funds through a group of investors that includes prominent space-sector investor Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund (a SpaceX investor), ACME Capital, Correlation Ventures, angel investor Sriram Krishnan and others. The remaining $4.5 million came from bank notes converted from debt into equity…
July 10, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Akash Systems, Inc., a San Francisco-based startup focused on resolving the explosive growth of data collected from space by enabling faster, cheaper and ubiquitous satellite communications, has announced $14.5 million in Series A funding, including $10 million in new equity funds, and an additional $4.5 million converted from prior convertible notes.
Investors in this round include Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, ACME Capital, Sriram Krishnan, Correlation Ventures and others. Akash will deploy the new capital toward scaling its transmit/receive radio modules and power amplifier business, moving it closer to profitability.…
May 21, 2019
Akash Systems, Inc. has appointed industry veteran Fabrizio Montauti as Vice President of Radios — he brings 30 years of radio frequency (RF) communications experience from his work delivering radio technologies to the global space satellite communications market.
Montauti’s appointment continues the expansion of the Akash Systems’ core management team, which has been carefully assembled by co-founders Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell since 2016…
March 12, 2019
Akash Systems, Inc., founded by Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell in 2016 and whose seed fund was led by Khosla Ventures in Q4 2017, strives to resolve issues critical to the expansive growth of the satellite industry.
With goals to extend the reach of fast, affordable information across the globe, the company is focused on enabling the next generation of smallsats using proprietary RF power amplifiers and radios. Gallium Nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond, a new material created by Ejeckam, is at the heart of the company’s RF products…
The most advanced commercial satellites transmit data down to Earth at rates of 100 to 200 Mbps; some advanced larger single satellite concepts target 1 to 4 Gbps. These data rates are substantially limited by state-of-the-art RF power amplifiers used to make the transmitters. Akash is building, for the first time, a small satellite system (12U) that will exhibit a preliminary downlink data rate of 14 Gbp…
US-based CubeSat developer, Akash Systems, has started 2018 with a bang, raising a massive $3.1 million in seed funds to accelerate delivery of its shoebox-sized satellites, based on GaN-on-Diamond RF power amplifiers.
The funds come at a time when worldwide data demand is fast outstripping the bandwidth provided by today’s satellite communications infrastructure. Meanwhile, technology advances have pushed satellite services beyond Internet, television and GPS navigation, unleashing imagery-rich and data-heavy applications from aeroplane tracking to pollution monitoring…
Akash Systems Inc. announced it has raised $3.1 million and closed its seed roundfunding. Led by Khosla Ventures, the seed round also included Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan and Backstage Capital. The funding will allow Akash to further its mission of reimagining tomorrow’s communication systems by developing the next generation of small satellites and the components that power them…
Akash Systems, a company focused on resolving the explosive growth of data consumption by enabling smarter and lighter satellite systems has raised $3.1 million to close its seed funding round. Led by Khosla Ventures, the seed round also included Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital…
Gallium nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond technology is a pioneering materials invention from Akash co-founder, Felix Ejeckam that is created by lifting GaN thin films from its original growth substrate and transferring it to a synthetic CVD diamond substrate which, at 1,600-2,000 W/mK, exhibits the highest known thermal conductivity…
GaN-on-Diamond is the ultimate building block for an RF Power Amplifier; it gives the system designer a new thermal envelope to use for any number of product or system transformations. Through the application of GaN-on-Diamond materials, Akash’s technologies can resolve issues critical…
Akash Systems, Inc., a company focused on enabling smarter and lighter satellite systems, announced that it has raised $3.1 million and closed its seed round funding. The seed funding round was Led by Khosla Ventures and also included Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital. The company plans to use the funding for further development of the next generation of small satellites and the components that power them…
Akash Systems, a San Francisco startup that sells RF power amplifiers for satellites, announced Jan. 30 it has raised $3.1 million in seed round funding, which it plans to use to develop its own line of cubesats. In November, Akash began selling amplifiers with patented integrated circuits made of gallium nitride on a synthetic diamond substrate…
Akash Systems announced it has raised $3.1 million and closed its seed round funding. Led by Khosla Ventures, the seed round also included Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital. According to Akash, it will use the funding to spur development of its small satellites and the components that power them…
Akash Systems, a San Francisco-based enabler of light satellite systems, raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan and Backstage Capital…
Akash Systems, Inc., a company focused on resolving the explosive growth of data consumption by enabling smarter and lighter satellite systems, has raised $3.1 million and closed their seed round funding. Led by Khosla Ventures, the seed round also included Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital…
Akash Systems, a US start-up focused on GaN-on-Diamond technology, has raised $3.1 million and closed its seed round funding. Led by Khosla Ventures, the seed round also included Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital…
Akash Systems Inc of San Francisco, CA, USA – which was founded in 2016 by Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell – has raised $3.1m and closed its seed round funding, led by Khosla Ventures and including Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital. The funding will allow Akash to further its development of the next generation of small satellites and the RF power amplifiers that power them…
Akash Systems, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based enabler of light satellite systems, raised $3.1m seed funding. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Social Capital, Data Collective, Ruvento Ventures, Sriram Krishnan, and Backstage Capital. The company will use the funds to develop small satellites and the components that power them…
Akash Systems, which has been trying to that can fit inside a grocery bag, announced on Tuesday that it raised $3.1 million in its first funding round. The company is trying to muscle into the crowded market for tiny Cubesats that beam wireless connectivity down to earth…
Akash Systems opened for business late last year, selling unusual semiconductors layered onto slabs of synthetic diamond. But the story behind the technology goes back fourteen years, when Felix Ejeckam, Akash’s co-founder and chief executive, started seeking out ways to make gallium nitride more efficient for radar and communications…
Ten of the most promising new regional aerospace start-up companies descended on El Segundo on Tuesday to pitch their futuristic concepts for the next wave of industry advancement, from orbiting cell towers in space to drones that communicate with each other…
With worldwide data demand outpacing the frequency, bandwidth and power capabilities of our current communications infrastructure, Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, both experts in gallium nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond technology have joined forces to create Akash Systems, a company committed to revolutionizing the future of fast, affordable satellite communications…
Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, both experts in gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond technology, have formed Akash Systems Inc of San Francisco, CA, USA, targeting fast, affordable satellite communications to address the challenge of worldwide data demand outpacing the frequency, bandwidth and power capabilities of existing communications infrastructure…
Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, both experts in GaN-on-Diamond technology, have joined forces to create Akash Systems, Inc, a company based in San Francisco, California, committed to enabling fast, affordable satellite communications…
With worldwide data demand outpacing the frequency, bandwidth and power capabilities of our current communications infrastructure, Felix Ejeckam and Ty Mitchell, both experts in gallium nitride (GaN)-on-Diamond technology have joined forces to create Akash Systems, Inc. (Akash), a company committed to revolutionizing the future of fast, affordable satellite communications….