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Slingshot Aerospace

El Segundo, CA · Founded 2017

Slingshot Aerospace tracks satellites and other objects in orbit with its own network of optical sensors and fuses the data into software for space operators. It sells AI tools for space-domain awareness, mission rehearsal and training to the U.S. Space Force and other defense, civil and commercial customers.

Profile

What it builds and who buys it

  • ·The U.S. Space Force awarded Slingshot a $69.2 million SBIR Phase III contract in July 2026 for MENTAT, a 4.5-year program under its Operational Test and Training Infrastructure. The company calls it the largest award in its history.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Jul 15, 2026
  • ·A $27 million, 18-month Space Force contract of January 2026 integrates TALOS into the service’s Operational Test and Training Infrastructure.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Jan 15, 2026
  • ·TALOS, launched in July 2025, is an AI agent built with the company’s behavior cloning pipeline that imitates spacecraft tactics in training and simulation. The Space Force’s 57th Space Aggressors Squadron has used it in exercises.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Jul 29, 2025
  • ·Slingshot was awarded a place on the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has a ceiling of $151 billion.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Dec 19, 2025
  • ·Its platform fuses data from its Global Sensor Network, the Seradata satellite and launch database, satellite owner-operators and third-party providers.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Mar 24, 2026
  • ·It used part of its Series A2 to buy Numerica’s space domain awareness division and the U.K. space research company Seradata.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Dec 6, 2022
  • ·Trinity Capital committed $30 million in growth capital to Slingshot as a debt facility in September 2024.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Sep 12, 2024

Founders and leadership

  • David GodwinExecutive chairman and co-founder

    Co-founded the company and was its chief executive at the 2019 seed round. The company’s site lists him as executive chairman.Built In Los Angeles, Apr 17, 2019

  • Melanie StricklanCo-founder

    Was chief strategy officer at the 2019 seed round and chief executive at the Series A2 in December 2022.Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Dec 6, 2022

Funding

Last valuation

No citable valuation

Last round or tender

$40.9Mraised

Series A2Slingshot Aerospace (company release), Dec 6, 2022

Led by Sway Ventures, with C16 Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and Draper Associates. Horizon Technology Finance provided a venture loan alongside it. A Form D for an equity offering begun July 29, 2022 records $33.7 million sold to 14 investors of $40.2 million offered, and does not name the round. No valuation was stated.

Latest revenue figure

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Post-money valuation by round

Fewer than two dated figures on file to plot; the table carries what there is.

DateRoundRaisedPost-money
Dec 6, 2022Series A2Led by Sway Ventures, with C16 Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and Draper Associates. Horizon Technology Finance provided a venture loan alongside it. A Form D for an equity offering begun July 29, 2022 records $33.7 million sold to 14 investors of $40.2 million offered, and does not name the round. No valuation was stated.$41M—
Mar 10, 2022Series A1Co-led by Draper Associates and ATX Venture Partners, with Edison Partners, Embedded Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and Lockheed Martin Ventures, and earlier investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Fund and Okapi Venture Capital. No valuation was stated.$25M—
Nov 25, 2020Series ALed by ATX Venture Partners, with Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Techstars Ventures and Okapi Venture Capital. The company’s March 2022 release gives $9.6 million for the Series A raised in October 2020. No valuation was stated.$8M—
Apr 17, 2019SeedLed by ATX Venture Partners. No valuation was stated.$5M—

Primary capital across the rounds on file: $78.8M

Revenue

No citable revenue figure on file.

Secondary venues

  • Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

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    The page shows no MarketPrice and says no recent secondary market data is available. Historical pricing is behind a login.

  • Claritypublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

    Clarity Price $2.50, as of Oct 15, 2026

    Clarity calls the figure a model-derived indicative estimate calculated daily; the page dates it no further than a "last updated" line reading August 28, 2026, so the day seen is recorded. Its round table lists the Series A-2 of December 2022 at $2.18 a share and a $189.8 million post-money, a venue figure that no company or press source on file states.

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Reads

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Sources

Researched Oct 15, 2026