Top Earth Observation Startups in 2026

Space Capital is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the Space economy, specifically focused on unlocking the value in Space technology stacks such as GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and Communications. We are actively investing out of our second fund and manage over $35 million in assets. Our sector focus enables us to be a true partner to our portfolio companies and unlock significant value far in excess of our investment capital. Space Capital is the parent brand of Space Angels, an online angel investment platform recognized as the most active investor in the space economy, and Space Talent, a career platform and central node for space industry jobs.

From a humble beginning as a download tool, we are evolving our product offerings to serve increasing numbers of customers through APIs. We serve our customers by providing over 5 Billion data units a day.

Kawa Space is a global intelligence and defense technology startup.  Our mission is to build tools that empower national security teams to deter the software-defined conflicts of tomorrow. Kawa Space’s flagship product is the powerful RF GEOINT constellation & associated software cable of monitoring spectrum usage using small satellites.

Coastal Carbon is a seed-funded startup on a mission to create positive impact through earth observation and AI. Founded at the University of Waterloo by a team of PhDs and engineers, we’re backed by some of the best AI and climate tech investors like HF0, Inovia Capital and Propeller Ventures, angels like James Tamplin (cofounder Firebase) and Sid Gorham (cofounder OpenTable, Granular), and partners like Amazon AWS and the United Nations. We’re building multimodal foundation models for the natural world. We believe there’s more to the world than the internet + more to intelligence than memorizing the internet. Our models are trained on satellite remote sensing and real world ground truth data, and are used by our customers in nature conservation, carbon dioxide removal, and government to protect and positively impact our increasingly changing world. Our ultimate goal is to build AGI of the natural world.