Gravitics
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$35.3M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$28.6M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
23
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Hiring now
18
+14 posted in 30 days
Grants
$1.8M
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
2
Draper Associates, Type One Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
76/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
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
Sep 18
New executive Michael DeRosa, Executive Officer · SEC Form D
Aug 10
Recognition Gravitics Selected for NASA SBIR Award to Develop Commercial Sample Return Hangar · YahooFinance
Jan 12
Raised a round Venture round $28.6M · SEC Form D
Mar 26, 2025
Won a customer Gravitics Selected by Space Force for $60M STRATFI to Demonstrate Revolutionary Orbital Carriers · businesswire.com
Jul 9, 2024
Won a customer Space station startup Gravitics lands $125 million order from Axiom · CNBC
May 23, 2024
Won a grant $75k · CORDIS
Mar 25, 2024
Won a grant $1.7M · CORDIS
Nov 23, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $6.7M · SEC Form D
2021
Founded
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Web presence
top 0.82%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 57 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2026 | $28.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Grant | May 2024 | $75k | — | CORDIS |
| Grant | Mar 2024 | $1.7M | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Nov 2022 | $6.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Gravitics, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Alykhan SunderjiExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Colin DoughanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Michael DeRosaExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Sundeep KumarExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Scott MacklinExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Draper Associates 
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How Gravitics hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
136 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Gravitics scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 136 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
News
Gravitics to build 'orbital carriers' for space-based missile defense (UPDATED)
Gravitics to build 'orbital carriers' for space-based missile defense (UPDATED) Gravitics to build three 'orbital carriers' for Golden Dome
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Gravitics Selected for NASA SBIR Award to Develop Commercial Sample Return Hangar
SEATTLE, August 10, 2026--Gravitics, Inc., an orbital infrastructure company, today announced it has been selected by NASA for a 2026 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award. The award supports development of the Multiple-Downmass Hangar,
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Gravitics Receives Strategic Funding Increase From SpaceWERX
Gravitics has received a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract from SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force's innovation arm, to accelerate development and demonstration of its Orbital Carrier architecture, the company said on Thursday.
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Gravitics wins support from Space Force to create an orbital carrier for space vehicles
The U.S. Space Force has chosen Gravitics to build and fly an orbital carrier that could send up maneuverable military space vehicles.
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Gravitics Selected by Space Force for $60M STRATFI to Demonstrate Revolutionary Orbital Carriers
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Space station startup Gravitics lands $125 million order from Axiom
Gravitics aims to become a manufacturer of private space stations, with designs for modules that have the "largest interior volume in a standalone spacecraft."
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Gravitics to develop 'tactically responsive' orbital platforms for the Space Force
The contract is part of a larger push from the Force to procure space capabilities from private industry on timelines that have been previously unheard of.
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Gravitics plans to leverage space station architecture for $1.7M Space Force project
Gravitics says it will work with Rocket Lab USA and other partners to adapt its space station architecture for the U.S. Space Force.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Gravitics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
63/100
Languages
MATLAB13%
C++7%
SQL7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS13%
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17 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$70k – $275k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Intern
6.3%
Middle
6.3%
Senior
50%
Staff
12.5%
Principal
6.3%
Architect
18.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 1 | $70k | $70k |
| Middle | 1 | $140k | $140k |
| Senior | 8 | $163k | $95k – $180k |
| Staff | 2 | $193k | $190k – $195k |
| Principal | 1 | $205k | $205k |
| Architect | 3 | $250k | $215k – $275k |
Highest paying role
Head of Engineering
$275k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Gravitics
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
People
Alykhan Sunderji
Executive Officer
Colin Doughan
Executive Officer, Director
Michael DeRosa
Executive Officer
Sundeep Kumar
Executive Officer, Director
Scott Macklin
Executive Officer
Tarek Waked
Director
Jeffrey Slostad
Director
John Hajj
Director
Nicholas Shekerdemian
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
87/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
17
14 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
137 days
faster than 10% 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
33% ▼
Finance
10% ▲
Aerospace
10% ▲
Hardware
5% ▲
Leadership
5% ▲
Administrative
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Houston
Oct 2026
New location: Marysville
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added SolidWorks to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Sep 2026
Added SQL to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Denver
Sep 2026
Added Simulink to stack
Sep 2026
Added MATLAB to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Project to stack
Sep 2026
Added C++ to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
1
Busiest office
Seattle
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Seattle
United States
HQ
15 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 10-50 est. staff $164k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Hardware
Washington
United States
Engineering / R&D
Cape Canaveral, FL
16 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 10-50 est. staff $164k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Finance, Aerospace
Denver
United States
Engineering / R&D
Denver, Co
14 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 10-50 est. staff $189k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Aerospace, Hardware
Houston
United States
Regional office
8 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 10-50 est. staff $169k Avg Salary
hires for Aerospace, Hardware, Analytics
Marysville
United States
Regional office
Marysville, WA
1-10 est. staff
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