Digantara’s new $50 million Series B round is a scale‑up bet on turning it into a full‑stack, sovereign space‑surveillance and defence player with its own constellation of monitoring and missile‑warning satellites.
Funding history and financial snapshot
- Seed (2021):
- Series A / A1 (2023–2024):
- $10 million Series A (Jun 2023) led by Peak XV Partners (then Sequoia India).
- Series A1 closed at $12 million total (Feb 2024); new investors Aditya Birla Ventures and SIDBI added $2 million, taking total funding pre‑Series B to about $14.5–15 million.
- By FY24, Digantara had crossed ₹1.3 crore in revenue, with about 107 employees, according to startup databases.
- Series B (Dec 2025):
- $50 million (≈₹454 crore) from 360 ONE Asset, SBI Investments (Japan), Ronnie Screwvala, with continued backing from Peak XV and Kalaari.
- Capital will fund global expansion beyond India and the US, new manufacturing plants for optical systems and satellite assembly, and a 50–100% ramp‑up in global R&D headcount over the next year.
Total equity funding now sits around $65 million+ across all rounds.
What Digantara builds and how it makes money
Digantara, founded in 2020 by Anirudh Sharma, Rahul Rawat and Tanveer Ahmed, focuses on space surveillance and intelligence (SSA/SDA)—tracking satellites and debris across orbital regimes for safety and defence.
- Technology stack:
- Products / services:
- Digitum – a unified SSA platform that provides conjunction alerts, collision‑risk analysis and manoeuvre recommendations to satellite operators and insurers.
- Mission assurance & analytics for defence and government agencies – tracking potentially hostile satellites, characterising objects and supporting mission planning.
- Customers and geographies:
Revenue is still modest (low‑single‑digit crore) but growing as more operators and defence agencies sign multi‑year analytics and threat‑intelligence contracts.
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Recent partnerships and strategic moves
- Lunar SSA with ispace (Japan):
- In Sept 2025, Digantara and Tokyo‑based ispace announced a planned joint cislunar mission, combining Digantara’s SSA capabilities with ispace’s lunar‑landing tech to provide lunar and cislunar situational awareness data from a private mission.
- Goal: lay foundations for a “sustainable lunar ecosystem” with safe navigation, resource mapping and long‑term infrastructure.
- Global presence:
- Defence and missile‑warning pivot:
- As part of the Series B plan, Digantara will deploy 15 SSA satellites in 2026–27 and two dedicated missile‑warning satellites, moving deeper into national‑security use cases like missile detection, tracking and future space‑based interceptors.
- CEO Anirudh Sharma describes this as shifting from “space‑traffic management” to delivering real deterrence and multi‑domain superiority” for allied nations.
Why this round is significant
- Catapults Digantara from a data‑platform plus ground‑sensor company into a full‑stack SSA and defence‑space player with its own constellation, a capital‑intensive but high‑moat shift.
- Brings in strategic capital from Japan (SBI, ispace linkage) and Indian public‑markets money (360 ONE), which strengthens both its Asian footprint and potential path to a future listing.
- Positions Digantara as one of the leading non‑US private players in the global space‑domain‑awareness race, alongside firms like LeoLabs and ExoAnalytic, but with a strong sovereign‑defence angle and India‑first roots.
