New financing will accelerate Neuraspace's expansion of its AI-enabled space domain awareness and traffic management platform, supporting commercial, institutional and defence satellite operations.
Portuguese space technology company Neuraspace has secured €15.6 million in new financing to expand its AI-enabled Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Space Traffic Management (STM) capabilities. The financing combines strategic private investment from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments and Armilar Venture Partners with funding awarded under Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP).
Founded in 2020 by Chiara Manfletti, Neuraspace develops an AI-powered platform that helps commercial, institutional and defence satellite operators monitor and manage increasingly complex space environments.
The platform combines data from commercial and sovereign sensors with high-precision orbit determination, AI-enabled risk and threat assessment, and autonomous decision support to detect, assess and respond to collision risks, cyber threats, radio-frequency interference, and other emerging space security challenges.
The investment comes as satellite operators face growing operational and security challenges in an increasingly congested and contested space environment. Alongside rising collision risks, operators must contend with cyberattacks, GNSS spoofing and jamming, radio-frequency interference, and increasingly sophisticated counterspace activities that require continuous monitoring and rapid decision-making.
According to Chiara Manfletti, CEO of Neuraspace, the company has expanded its mission beyond making space safer to helping operators respond to both accidental and intentional threats, as the distinction between safety and security continues to narrow.
This investment marks the beginning of Neuraspace’s next phase of growth as we expand Europe’s sovereign capabilities in space domain awareness while delivering the AI-enabled operational services required by the next generation of commercial, institutional and defence missions.
The funding will support the expansion of the company’s commercial and defence capabilities through further development of its AI platform, accelerated autonomous mission operations, and expansion of its proprietary optical sensing infrastructure. It will also support continued investment in NeuraspaceDEF, the company’s dual-use solution for government and defence customers.