Kapta Space, a developer of next-generation spaceborne radar payloads, announced on October 9, 2026, that it has closed a US$24 million Series A funding round. Washington Harbour Partners led the investment, and Bison Ventures served as co-lead. The round also included MetaVC, MYDA Capital, Entrada Ventures, Aurelia Foundry, and Fitz Gate Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to US$30 million.
Funding Purpose and Classified Contracts
The new capital will allow Kapta Space to scale production of its technology in support of multiple classified moving target indication contracts the company secured earlier in 2026. These contracts reflect growing demand for space-based radar capabilities that can monitor moving threats across air, sea, and land. The company says its approach directly addresses the persistent coverage requirements of modern intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.
A New Approach to Radar Payloads
Kapta Space was founded to overcome a central obstacle in space-based radar intelligence: conventional payloads have historically been too costly and complex to deploy across the large satellite constellations these missions require. The company's modular Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array architecture, called MESA, rethinks how electronically steerable radar payloads are built. This software-defined architecture is designed to deliver advanced radar performance with significantly lower cost, power requirements, and manufacturing complexity than traditional AESA approaches.
Maintaining Custody of Moving Targets
The core challenge in persistent spaceborne awareness is not simply detecting and tracking a target, but maintaining custody as that target moves. Kapta's electronically steerable radar architecture combines a wide field of regard, rapid beam steering, and scalable apertures to enable spacecraft to search, track, revisit, and maintain awareness of dynamic targets at mission scale. The company believes this capability unlocks a path to sensing at scale.
Executive Perspective
Milton Perque, Founder and CEO of Kapta Space, said the mission calls for persistent awareness and requires a fundamental rethinking of how radar works at constellation scale. He noted that traditional architectures are cost prohibitive and were never designed for the scale these missions now demand. Perque added that the investment will help the company advance its technology, expand manufacturing, and work with strategic partners through flight qualification and into contracted orbital missions.
Investor Confidence
Mina Faltas, Founder and CEO of Washington Harbour Partners, said traditional AESA payloads have been too costly and complex to deploy at the scale required for missions like moving target indication. She described Kapta's MESA architecture as a modular, highly manufacturable approach that changes the cost and scalability equation for electronically steerable radar. Ben Hemani, Founding Partner at Bison Ventures, added that the technology enables persistent sensing at a scale traditional architectures were not built to support.
Path to Flight and Production
Following the Series A, Kapta Space plans to qualify its payload for flight, expand manufacturing capacity, and prepare for its first orbital demonstration. These demonstration missions are intended to move the company closer to supplying radar payloads at the scale that future moving target indication missions demand. The company expects the work to open the door to a new class of persistent tracking and advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions from orbit.
Kapta Space's Series A marks an important step toward making persistent space-based radar more affordable and scalable. With new investor backing and classified contracts already secured, the company is positioned to advance its MESA technology from development toward operational use. Its progress could support the next generation of U.S. and allied space architectures focused on continuous awareness of moving threats.