{"id":61643,"date":"2026-07-31T20:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/k2-space-raises-500m-series-d-at-6-8b-valuation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:43:18","slug":"k2-space-raises-500m-series-d-at-6-8b-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/k2-space-raises-500m-series-d-at-6-8b-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 Space Raises $500M Series D at $6.8B Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[CDATA[<img width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Thumbnail-Option-3-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image: K2 Space\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Thumbnail-Option-3-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Thumbnail-Option-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/payloadspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Thumbnail-Option-3-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/--><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">K2 Space announced a $500M Series D yesterday at a $6.8B post-money valuation. The round is hot off the heels of a $250M Series C in December, and brings K2\u2019s total financing north of $1B since its founding in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, which included additional participation from CapitalG, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Altimeter, Spark Capital, Sands Capital, ARK Invest, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, and other existing investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do the math: <\/strong>While the lofty valuation comes just four months after K2 launched its first satellite\u2014called Gravitas\u2014CEO Karan Kunjur told Payload that it\u2019s \u201cpurely based on multiples of next 12-month revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese are big numbers, but they\u2019re big numbers because we have big revenue numbers that are growing really fast,\u201d Kunjur added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December, K2 Space revealed it had signed $500M+ in contracts. Since then, K2 has signed another ~$500M, according to Kunjur.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In March, K2 signed a ~30-sat contract with SES to build sats for the comms company\u2019s meoSphere network, which will eventually grow to 100 satellites;<\/li>\n<li>In May, K2 signed a deal with Anduril to collaborate in a consortium on missile-defense systems for Golden Dome;<\/li>\n<li>In June, K2 confirmed it was to supply sats to SES Space and Defense under the Space Force Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global initiative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To meet this growing demand, K2 plans to invest the new capital to scale up its production capacity to churn out at least 100 satellites per year, which is the maximum capacity at its current facility. The company is also scaling up what its satellites can do in response to growing demand from the commercial sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a massive potential user for super high-power systems, and that\u2019s on orbit compute,\u201d Kunjur told Payload. \u201cWe designed components for the 100 kW system\u2026We\u2019ve built the entire tech stack to go scale up the platform itself, and so we intend to be first movers on orbital compute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">K2 plans to launch its first 100kW satellite in H2 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do it again: <\/strong>While K2\u2019s Gravitas mission validated the company\u2019s ability to fly a high-power sat in orbit, doing so repeatedly is the company\u2019s next major milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To that end, K2 plans to launch multiple satellites in Q2 2027 as part of the company\u2019s Trinity mission to demonstrate the company can fly at multiple orbits. The mission will fly sats in LEO, MEO, and GEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe biggest intent with Trinity,\u201d Kunjur said, \u201cwas just to say, \u2018OK, we did it once\u2026 can we also prove that the exact same platform can be used for different missions? That the exact same platform can be used in different orbits? And that the exact same platform is reliable, robust, and performant?\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If that mission goes well, it will help K2 preposition itself to take a larger slice of market share when new technologies take off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are more and more applications that happen on the ground, and happen in the air, that are going to move to space\u2014and we want to be on the front lines of rolling out those infrastructure layers,\u201d Kunjur said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post K2 Space Raises $500M Series D at $6.8B Valuation appeared first on Payload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K2 Space announced a $500M Series D yesterday at a $6.8B post-money valuation. The round is hot off the heels of a $250M Series C in December, and brings K2\u2019s total financing north of $1B since its founding in 2022. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, which included additional participation from CapitalG, Lightspeed Venture [&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":[],"class_list":["post-61643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643"}],"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=61643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}