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Albedo
Broomfield, CO · Founded 2020
Albedo, incorporated as Albedo Space Corp., builds satellite buses for very low Earth orbit (VLEO), below 300 km, and the Verity optical payload. Its first satellite, Clarity-1, launched in March 2025 to prove the Precision bus and VLEO imaging.
Profile
What it builds and who buys it
- ·Clarity-1 launched on SpaceX’s Transporter-13 in March 2025. The company says it proved sustained VLEO operations and its in-house Precision bus, and validated 98% of the technology needed for 10 cm imagery.Albedo (company blog), Jan 23, 2026
- ·Clarity-1 measured a drag coefficient 12% better than the design target, which the company says validates a five-year lifespan at 275 km.Albedo (company blog), Jan 23, 2026
- ·Vicinity, announced in April 2026 as Albedo’s second VLEO mission, is a higher-power bus for payloads such as synthetic aperture radar, electronic warfare and communications.Albedo (company blog), Apr 7, 2026
- ·Albedo lists space domain awareness, rendezvous and proximity operations, missile warning and space-based interceptors among the missions for its buses.Albedo
- ·The National Reconnaissance Office awarded Albedo a Stage II contract in July 2025 that lets it buy Clarity-1’s visible and thermal imagery.Albedo (company release), Aug 1, 2025
- ·The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Albedo a STRATFI contract with a potential value of $12 million in March 2025, to share data on VLEO operations.SpaceNews, Mar 4, 2025
- ·Booz Allen Ventures, the venture arm of the government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, made Albedo its first space investment in January 2024.SpaceNews, Jan 23, 2024
- ·Business Insider reported in April 2025, from documents it had seen, that Albedo was raising a Series B of close to $100 million at a $285 million pre-money valuation, led by General Innovation Capital. The company’s newsroom lists no announcement of the round.Business Insider, Apr 23, 2025
Founders and leadership
- Topher HaddadCo-founder and chief executive
Worked at Lockheed Martin before co-founding Albedo in 2020.Business Insider, Apr 23, 2025
- AyJay LasaterCo-founder and chief technology officer
Worked at Lockheed Martin before co-founding Albedo in 2020.Business Insider, Apr 23, 2025
Funding
- Last valuation
No citable valuation
- Last round or tender
Form D offering
Aug 12, 2024SEC (Form D), Aug 27, 2024
A debt offering with an option to acquire securities, unnamed in the filing. It records $3.0 million sold to one investor from August 12, 2024, of $5.2 million offered.
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Post-money valuation by round
Fewer than two dated figures on file to plot; the table carries what there is.
| Date | Round | Raised | Post-money |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2024 | Form D offeringA debt offering with an option to acquire securities, unnamed in the filing. It records $3.0 million sold to one investor from August 12, 2024, of $5.2 million offered. | — | — |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Series A-1Led by Standard Investments, with new investors Booz Allen Ventures, Cubit Capital and Bill Perkins and existing investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Capital. TechCrunch calls it an up round and states no valuation. The Form D for an equity offering begun October 25, 2023 records $29.4 million sold to 20 investors of $40.0 million offered, and does not name the round. | $35M | — |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Series ALed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Capital, with Republic Capital, Giant Step Capital Partners, C16 Ventures, Initialized Capital, Liquid 2 and SNR. No valuation was stated. | $48M | — |
| Apr 22, 2021 | SeedLed by Initialized Capital, with Jetstream, Liquid2 Ventures and Soma Capital. No valuation was stated. | $10M | — |
Primary capital across the rounds on file: $93M
Revenue
No citable revenue figure on file.
Secondary venues
- Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026
No price on the public page.
No public MarketPrice. Historical pricing is behind a login. The page lists a Series B dated April 23, 2025 and an estimated valuation of $385 million, aggregator figures that no company announcement on file supports and that are not recorded.
- Nasdaq Private Marketpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026
No price on the public page.
The page shows no figure. Valuation and share price data are behind sign-up.
A venue is listed when its public page named the company on the date shown. A price is the figure that page showed, under the venue’s own name for it and dated as the venue dated it; it is a level the venue publishes, not a trade. Nothing is recorded from behind a login.
Reads
Tracked only. No read has been prepared for this company; the figures above are the record.
Sources
- Albedo’s Next VLEO Mission: VicinityAlbedo (company blog), Apr 7, 2026
- Clarity-1: What Worked, and Where We Go NextAlbedo (company blog), Jan 23, 2026
- National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Awards Albedo Stage II Contract AwardAlbedo (company release), Aug 1, 2025
- Satellite imagery startup Albedo, which can track people from space, is raising a new round at a $285 million valuationBusiness Insider, Apr 23, 2025
- Albedo secures $12 million STRATFI contractSpaceNews, Mar 4, 2025
- Albedo Space Corp., Form D for an offering begun August 12, 2024SEC (Form D), Aug 27, 2024
- Albedo closes $35M at boosted valuation to build satellites that orbit very, very close to EarthTechCrunch, Jan 23, 2024
- Booz Allen Ventures makes its first space investmentSpaceNews, Jan 23, 2024
- Albedo Space Corp., Form D for an offering begun October 25, 2023SEC (Form D), Nov 1, 2023
- Albedo announces $48 million Series A funding roundSpaceNews, Sep 7, 2022
- Satellite imagery startup Albedo closes $10M seed roundTechCrunch, Apr 22, 2021
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