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Funding and backers

Total raised
$29M
1 round on record
Latest round
$29M
Venture round · Jan 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
33
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Business Angels Switzerland, OTB Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
44 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
2/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jan 31, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $29M 2018 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.49%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 3 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2023 $29M — spacenews.com
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How ClearSpace hires

Truth index
B 84/100
Median time to fill
65 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
43%
Reposted roles
0%

ClearSpace scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 43% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 65 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

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Overview

ClearSpace develops spacecraft that capture and deorbit defunct satellites and debris. Its first mission was contracted by the European Space Agency. The company spun out of the space centre at EPFL.

News

Jive AI: Enterprise Collaboration & Community Platform
Jive AI is an enterprise collaboration and community platform built for the world's most complex enterprises to connect, share, and work together.
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News CNBC 1 year ago
Millions of pieces of space debris are flying around our Earth - meet the Swiss partnership determined to clear it up
A team in Switzerland is actively working to find a solution for Earth's space junk problem, through a world-first initiative: ClearSpace Mission-1.
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News TNW Deep-tech 2 years ago
A new in-orbit refuelling service for spacecraft is under development
Swiss startup ClearSpace and its US partner Orbit Fab are developing an in-space refuelling service for satellites.
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News Space 3 years ago
Clearspace-1 space debris cleanup target in orbit just got struck by space debris
Europe is about to launch the ClearSpace-1 test mission for space debris. But the flying item targeted for cleanup was apparently smacked by space junk in the interim.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at ClearSpace over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
30
Postings analysed
32
Stack modernity
63/100
Languages
Python31%
C++19%
MATLAB16%
Java3%
Frameworks & libraries
Orekit3%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes3%
Linux3%
RTOS3%
Unix3%
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
33
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
66 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
26% ▼
Aerospace
22% ▲
Sales
19% ▼
Hardware
7% ▲
Robotics
7% ▼
QA
4% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Outlook to stack Oct 2026
New location: Renens Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack Sep 2026
Added Orekit to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added Java to stack Sep 2026
Added GMAT to stack Sep 2026
Added Docker to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
London
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Lausanne Switzerland
HQ
London United Kingdom
Regional office
15 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Aerospace, Hardware
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Luxembourg City Luxembourg
Regional office
12 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Aerospace, DevOps, Hardware
seen since Mar 2026 job postings
Renens Switzerland
Regional office
Building Our European Footprint in Space Technology
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Rue de Lausanne 641020 Renens
seen since Aug 2026 company site, job postings
Toulouse France
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Industrial Engineering
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $58k – $114k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • London
CI/CD
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • London
Agile
SpaceTech
ECSS
Apply
In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • London
ECSS
Apply
In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD
Python
Java
SQL
MATLAB
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
Unix
SpaceTech
Orekit
GMAT
STK
CCSDS
ECSS
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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≈ $44k – $71k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • London
ECSS
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≈ $44k – $71k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • London
Agile
SpaceTech
FMEA
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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≈ $63k – $154k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Toulouse
ECSS
FMEA
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≈ $65k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • London
Agile
MedTech
Verification & Validation
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≈ $73k – $166k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • London
Python
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • London
Python
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
Robotics
Localization
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≈ $100k – $241k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Luxembourg City
Python
SolidWorks
SpaceTech
ECSS
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≈ $73k – $165k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Luxembourg City
ECSS
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$29M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $29M Details