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Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft


Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes

In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has now raised $20 million in a seed round that it will be using to get itself to its next stage of hardware and software development. London-based Plural and Antwerp-based Hummingbird are leading this seed round, with deep tech-focused HCVC (Paris-founded), Kevin Mahaffey (Lookout), un-named angels and Van den Dries himself participating. Image Credits: under a Karman+ (opens in a new window) license.The two worked together at Van den Dries’ previous enterprise, a real estate data startup called GeoPhy that was acquired for $290 million in 2022.

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