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January 14, 2025

French space tech Loft Orbital hits billion-dollar valuation with €170m raise

The startup, which is HQed in France and in the US, is one of Europe’s only space tech unicorns

Loft Orbital, a French-American space tech company, has raised €170m in equity as part of a Series C round, to build infrastructure ready-to-use in orbit that it says will allow customers to easily deploy space-based missions. 

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Daphné Leprince-Ringuet

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a senior reporter for Sifted, based in Paris. She covers French tech and writes Sifted's AI and Deeptech newsletter . You can find her on X and LinkedIn

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