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Planet Labs

HQ San Francisco, CAFounded 20101001-5000 employeesPL

Satellite imagery company operating large Earth-observation constellations; Planet Labs Federal serves U.S. government.

PrimeFielded
Website

Funding2 rounds · $990M

Equity raised
$990M
Latest
$400MConvertible · Sep 10, 2025
Cumulative raised$990M
Dec 7, 2021Sep 10, 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.

Systems5

Owl

Next-generation monitoring satellite planned for near-daily 1-meter class global imagery.

Development

Pelican

Very high-resolution tasking Earth-observation satellite constellation succeeding SkySat.

Limited fielding

SkySat

Sub-meter tasking satellite constellation with still and full-motion video imagery.

Fielded

SuperDove (PlanetScope)

Cubesat fleet providing near-daily, eight-band PlanetScope imagery of Earth's landmass.

Fielded

Tanager

Hyperspectral imaging satellite built with NASA JPL for methane and VSWIR monitoring.

Limited fielding

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

Supply Chain1 facility

Facilities1

  • Planet San Francisco headquarters
    Headquarters · San Francisco, CA, United States
    Operating
    Confirmed

Hiring Observations10 observed listings

A sample of observed listings, not a total vacancy count. Availability may have changed since collection. Categories are inferred from job titles.

Company Metrics

LinkedIn employee profiles
1,766
Observed Oct 13, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗
LinkedIn followers
171,720
Observed Oct 13, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗

Employee-profile counts reflect LinkedIn profiles associated with the company, not verified headcount. One observation establishes a baseline; it does not establish growth.

Sources16

Show all 16 sources and supporting evidence

Profile4

  1. 1

    Business Wire · Sep 15, 2026 · Supports Organization

    “Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) is the parent company of the Planet group with global headquarters in San Francisco, USA.”
  2. 2

    Business Wire · Jan 12, 2026 · Supports Organization · founded year

    “Founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists, Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest Earth observation fleet of imaging satellites.”
  3. 3

    Planet Labs PBC · May 25, 2022 · Supports Organization

    “has selected Planet Labs Federal, Inc. (Planet Federal), our wholly owned subsidiary”
  4. 4

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · aliases, Organization · status, Organization · ticker, Organization · x url

    “legal_name: Planet Labs Inc.”

Systems6

  1. 5

    Business Wire · Sep 3, 2026 · Supports Role, System

    “said Will Marshall, Planet’s Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson”
  2. 6

    Planet Labs PBC · Supports System

    “By August 2021, Planet had upgraded the constellation by replacing the original Dove satellites with next-generation SuperDoves.”
  3. 7

    Planet Labs PBC · Supports System

    “Currently, the SkySat constellation consists of morning and afternoon sun-synchronous satellites with an operational altitude of 475 km.”
  4. 8

    Planet Labs PBC · Supports System

    “It is being designed to deliver near-daily 1-meter class imagery of the Earth’s entire landmass”
  5. 9

    Planet Labs PBC · Supports System

    “Pelican™ is designed to provide faster tasking with greater clarity from very high-resolution imagery.”
  6. 10

    Planet Labs PBC · Supports System

    “Engineered by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and sponsored by Carbon Mapper”

Funding2

  1. 11

    Planet Labs PBC (Business Wire via Yahoo Finance) · Sep 10, 2025 · Supports Funding round

    “today announced the pricing of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030”
  2. 12

    Planet Labs (Business Wire) · Dec 7, 2021 · Supports Funding round

    “Planet received gross proceeds of over $590 million, including proceeds from the dMY IV trust account and the previously announced private placement (“PIPE”)”

Supply chain1

  1. 13

    Planet Labs PBC · Supports Facility

    “645 Harrison Street 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107”

People1

  1. 14

    Benzinga (SEC Form 4) · Mar 23, 2026 · Supports Role

    “Schingler Robert H (Director, Co-Founder Chief Strategy Off.)”

Other2

  1. 15

    Supports Job posting

    “Revenue Accounting Transformation Manager”
  2. 16

    LinkedIn · Supports Organization · aliases, Organization · employee range, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · website, Organization metric · employees in linkedin, Organization metric · followers

    “name: Planet”

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