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Funding and backers

Total raised
$51.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$47.6M
Venture round · Nov 2023 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
13
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
500 Global, Coral Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
35 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
21/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Nov 24, 2023 Board appointment Toyotaka Kozuki, Director · SEC Form D Nov 10, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $47.6M · SEC Form D Jun 19, 2019 Raised a round Venture round $4.1M · SEC Form D Mar 25, 2019 Partnership GITAI Partners With JAXA to Send Telepresence Robots to Space · spectrum.ieee.org 2016 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Nov 2023 $47.6M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jun 2019 $4.1M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity GITAI Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Sho NakanoseExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

GITAI develops robotic systems to perform physical tasks aboard spacecraft, space stations and on lunar and orbital infrastructure. The company designs and manufactures robotic manipulators, free-flying robots and autonomous hardware and software to reduce the cost and risk of human work in space. Its customers include space agencies, commercial satellite operators and companies building in-space and lunar infrastructure.

News

News the Guardian 1 month ago
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The writer-director once called Israel's 'one-man New Wave' is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West Bank
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News Via Satellite 4 months ago
Gitai Delays Robotic Servicing Mission to Prioritize SBI Work
Gitai has completed a flight model for an upcoming robotic on-orbit servicing mission, but is delaying the mission to focus on space-based interceptor
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Blog 4 months ago
GITAI Completes Flight Model of S3 Robotic Satellite for On-Orbit Servicing Demonstration Mission
TORRANCE, Calif. - June 16, 2026 - GITAI USA Inc. ("GITAI"), a U.S.-headquartered space robotics and satellite platform company, today announced the completion of the flight model of its S3 robotic satellite mission, a technology demonstration mission des
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Blog 5 months ago
GITAI Selected by U.S. Space Force for Space-Based Interceptor Program
TORRANCE, Calif. - May 4, 2026 - GITAI USA Inc. ("GITAI"), a U.S.-headquartered space robotics and satellite platform company, is pleased to announce that it has been selected by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI)
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Award 10 months ago
GITAI Awarded Contract Under Missile Defense Agency's $151B SHIELD IDIQ Program
TORRANCE, Calif. - December 23, 2025 - GITAI USA Inc. (GITAI), a U.S.-headquartered space robotics company, today announced that it has been awarded a contract under the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defens
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Blog 1 year ago
GITAI Establishes GITAI Defense and Space LLC to Enhance U.S. Government Contracting Capabilities
TORRANCE, Calif. - April 8, 2025 - GITAI USA Inc. (GITAI), a U.S.-headquartered space robotics company, today announced the establishment of its new subsidiary, GITAI Defense and Space LLC, incorporated in Delaware and operating from the company's headqua
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Award 1 year ago
GITAI Awarded JAXA Contract for Concept Study of Robotic Arm for Crewed Pressurized Lunar Rover
Torrance, CA - March 31, 2025 - GITAI, a U.S.-headquartered space robotics company, announced that its Japanese subsidiary, GITAI Japan Inc., has been awarded a contract by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct a concept study for a rob
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Blog 1 year ago
GITAI Successfully Completes Space Demonstration of In-House Developed 16U Satellite
TORRANCE, Calif. - (Jan 27, 2025) - GITAI USA Inc. (GITAI), the world's leading space robotics startup, is excited to announce the successful launch and full mission success of its in-house developed 16U-sized satellite. The satellite was launched into lo
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at GITAI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
64/100
Developer tools
SolidWorks
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$56k – $250k
Open positions
12
12 Jobs
Intern 8.3%
Junior 33.3%
Middle 8.3%
Senior 41.7%
Architect 8.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $56k $56k
Junior 4 $155k $125k – $174k
Middle 1 $160k $160k
Senior 5 $200k $165k – $200k
Architect 1 $250k $250k
Highest paying role VP, Strategic Finance $250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at GITAI By role, level and city, against the market · 12 jobs with pay

People

Sho Nakanose
Executive Officer, Director
Toyotaka Kozuki
Director
Yuta Kimura
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
13
3 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
68 days
faster than 19% 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
38% ▼
HR
19% ▲
Hardware
13% ▼
Field & Service
13% ▼
Product
6% ▼
Operations
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added ROS to stack Sep 2026
Added PyTorch C++ to stack Sep 2026
Added PyTorch to stack Sep 2026
Added Python to stack Sep 2026
Added OpenCV to stack Sep 2026
Added Motion Planning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added EtherCAT to stack Sep 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack Sep 2026
Added C++ to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Los Angeles
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Tokyo Japan
HQ
Los Angeles United States
Engineering / R&D
Los Angeles
14 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 21% engineering 200-500 est. staff $163k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, HR
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings

Jobs

$155k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Master's Degree • Los Angeles
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$100k – $125k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Los Angeles
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$125k – $165k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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$125k – $160k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Los Angeles
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Financials

Total raised
$51.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $47.6M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $4.1M Details