Booz Allen Ventures Invests in Satellite Automation Startup Quindar

Quindar’s mission management software. Photo: Quindar

Booz Allen Ventures invested in Quindar, an early-stage startup focused on automating satellite operations. 

Quindar has built a virtualized platform that the company says improves the ability to command cooperative fleets of spacecraft using non-proprietary technologies. The mission management platform currently operates multiple customers and assets in space. Quindar previously raised $8.5 million seed funding. 

Booz Allen Ventures said this investment will help integrate technology to modernize legacy satellite and ground systems. The firm said the investment points to “the urgency of integrating mission-critical technologies across the space domain to increase awareness, security, automation, and data collection for decision advantage.” 

Booz Allen Ventures is the investment arm of Booz Allen Hamilton. This is the firm’s second space-focused investment, after an investment in Very Low-Earth Orbit satellite company Albedo earlier this year. Financial terms of the Quindar investment were not disclosed. 

“For the last five years or so, the stacks that support satellite operations have been separated into different stovepipes, such as launch, payload, and operation,” said Travis Bales, managing director of Booz Allen Ventures. “Quindar’s stack enables the future of space support operations for disparate partners and payloads to be controlled through one holistic view.”