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Involve funding news – Italy-based Involve Secures €2.5 Million in Seed Funding

Sep 3, 2024 | By Team SR

Involve funding news - Italy-based Involve Secures €2.5 Million in Seed Funding

Stratospheric balloon technology company Involve secures €2.5 million in seed funding after 30 successful commercial launches and extensive testing. Involve monitors anything that moves at human speed using modern stratospheric pseudo-satellite platforms and intelligent algorithms to provide real-time, high-resolution data for environmental protection, natural resource management, and infrastructure security.

SUMMARY

  • Stratospheric balloon technology company Involve secures €2.5 million in seed funding after 30 successful commercial launches and extensive testing.
  • Involve Space uses stratospheric pseudo-satellite platforms and intelligent software to revolutionize Earth monitoring.

After this financing, it added former Google Project Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth to its executive Board of Directors and astronaut Paolo Nespoli to its Advisory Board.

Takeoff, Unicredit, Fondazione CRT, Plug and Play, and TLI Space joined Earlybird Venture Capital in the investment. The round includes €500,000 convertible loans. First Italian startup chosen by Earlybird-X, Involve, reached a crucial milestone with this funding round.

Earlybird-X partner Dr. Philipp Semmer says: "We are excited to partner with Jonathan, Claudio and the entire Involve team in building the next generation of high-altitude balloon platforms. The team convinced us with their execution capabilities of gathering substantial initial traction with very little capital. Additionally, they were able to attract some of the leading heads in the space, such as Alastair Westgarth. Involve will define a new category of earth observation technology, and we are happy to be part of the journey, alongside CDP and TLI Space."

The cash will help it reach major technical milestones with its stratospheric balloon technology. Artificial intelligence can optimize control systems, increase flight time, and increase payload. In aerospace, the corporation aims to hire more people.

Polotto said, "Our next step should be somewhere near Houston, USA, "Here, for more than a month, I had the opportunity to develop contacts and do quite a bit of networking. This will be, very soon, our next step, thanks to our board member Alastair Westgarth and business developer Courtney Stadd, former Deputy Associate Administrator at NASA and ex-Director of Commercial Space at The White House."

About Involve Space

Involve Space uses stratospheric pseudo-satellite platforms and intelligent software to revolutionize Earth monitoring. They monitor anything that moves at human speed, giving real-time, high-resolution data for informed interventions. Rising above to examine the earth is the only way to completely understand it.

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