Kepler Aerospace bags $8M to deploy swarming satellites

Kepler Aerospace, a space infrastructure and mission operations company, has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Blue Ashva Capital and co-led by Finvolve India Accelerator and other investors. The Bengaluru-based firm plans to use the capital primarily to deploy the first six satellites in its autonomous swarming intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programme under India’s Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) initiative. It has secured two iDEX prime contracts and received ab