{"id":18586,"date":"2018-03-30T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/investors-provide-a-26-5m-lift-for-world-view-stratospheric-balloon-venture\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T10:03:01","slug":"investors-provide-a-26-5m-lift-for-world-view-stratospheric-balloon-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/investors-provide-a-26-5m-lift-for-world-view-stratospheric-balloon-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors provide a $26.5M lift for World View stratospheric balloon venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> Arizona-based World View says it has closed a $26.5 million Series C financing round, led by Accel with participation from previous investors Canaan and Norwest Venture Partners. The funding will help World View accelerate work on its Stratollite system, a low-cost, balloon-borne platform that can provide satellite-type services. World View also says it executed a high-altitude balloon research mission&nbsp;for NASA Ames Research Center and Space Environment Technologies on Thursday. The mission focused on studying radiation levels at different altitudes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_408756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408756\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-408756\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180330-worldview-630x420.jpg\" alt=\"World View balloon\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180330-worldview-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180330-worldview-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180330-worldview-1260x840.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-408756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World View sends up a Z-Class stratospheric flight vehicle to conduct research on radiation level for NASA Ames Research Center and Space Environment Technologies. (World View Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Brief: Arizona-based World View says it has closed a $26.5 million Series C financing round, led by Accel with participation from previous investors Canaan and Norwest Venture Partners. The funding will help World View accelerate work on its Stratollite system, a low-cost, balloon-borne platform that can provide satellite-type services. World View also says it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4671,4805,4807],"class_list":["post-18586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-balloon","tag-stratosphere","tag-world-view-enterprises"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}