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Startup · United States

Karman+

HQ DenverFounded 202211-50 employeesUpdated

Develops technology for mining asteroids to supply the space economy.

Website

Funding2 rounds · $21.0M

Equity raised
$21.0M
Latest
$20.0MSeed · Feb 19, 2025
Cumulative raised$21.0M
Jan 1, 2022Feb 19, 2025

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems1

  • ProspectorOpen-source software for early-stage deep-space mission design and asteroid target screening.

Newest unveiled first. Systems that belong to a government program link to the program page, where variants, costs and contracts are.

Capabilities1

  • Developer
    classify_sectors run 37, haiku, taxonomy 2026-10-18b: Asteroid mining technology for the space economy, with no defense use stated.
    —Reported

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

Sources7

Profile3

  1. 1

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url

    “country: US”
  2. 2

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "55385077-4d61-4d45-880a-96267457d171", "name": "Karman+"}”
  3. 3

    Karman+ · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website

    “Here at Karman+, we are going to mine asteroids for raw material so that you can use it right there in space without needing to launch it up a gravity well.”

Systems1

  1. 4

    Karman+ · Supports System

    “Today we're releasing Prospector, the tool we use internally to decide where to go as well as what spacecraft to design, under an Apache-2.0 licence.”

Funding2

  1. 5

    Karman+ · Feb 19, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Plural and Hummingbird”
  2. 6

    LinkedIn · Supports Funding round, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url

    “funding round: Pre Seed Round, 2022-01-01, USD 1,000,000”

People1

  1. 7

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Role

    “country: US”

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