Starfish Space
Starfish Space is an In-Space Infrastructure & Servicing company founded in 2019 and based in Tukwila, United States. It has raised $160M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2026.
Founded in 2019 in Tukwila, Washington by Blue Origin and NASA alumni Austin Link and Trevor Bennett, Starfish Space develops low-cost, autonomous satellite-servicing spacecraft called Otter. Its Otter Pup demonstrator pioneered the Nautilus capture mechanism, an electrostatic-adhesion end effector designed to dock with satellites that were never built to be captured. Starfish has announced multiple Otter customers — including Intelsat, SES, NASA, the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command, and the Space Development Agency — with its first operational missions slated for 2026, and won a $54.5M Space Force contract for a dedicated GEO servicing vehicle. The company raised a $110M+ Series B in April 2026 led by Point72 Ventures, bringing total funding above $150M to scale Otter production and execute its missions under contract.
Starfish is pushing toward the first commercial docking with an unprepared satellite, the capability that would unlock routine life-extension and servicing of the existing fleet rather than just purpose-built clients.
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