Open Cosmos
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Earth Observation
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$7M
17 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
Oct 2026 · this month
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
25
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$633k
5 grants · CORDIS
Backers
4
Endeavor, Entrepreneur First
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
47/100
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
Oct 7
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 7
Launched Open Cosmos launches Earth observation satellites · telecoms.com
Mar 24
Launched Open Cosmos Unveils Space-Based IoT with Real-Time Earth Observation · directionsmag.com
Mar 16
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 20, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
May 12, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 2, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 30, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Oct 6, 2023
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 1, 2023
Won a grant $271k · CORDIS
May 1, 2023
Won a grant $128k · CORDIS
May 4, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Aug 5, 2021
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 1, 2020
Won a grant $95k · CORDIS
Oct 1, 2019
Won a grant $54k · CORDIS
Apr 18, 2018
Raised a round Series A $7M · TechCrunch
Dec 7, 2017
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 1, 2017
Won a grant $85k · CORDIS
Apr 5, 2016
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 27, 2015
Founded per the company register
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Web presence
top 0.04%
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Hacker News stories
2
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | OPEN COSMOS LTD. | Companies House |
| Registered | 27 Jul 2015 |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Endeavor 
Entrepreneur First 
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How Open Cosmos hires
Truth index
A 93/100
Median time to fill
177 days
Ghost roles
4%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Open Cosmos scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 25 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 4% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 177 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
- United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)
Overview
Open Cosmos is a British company founded in 2015 and based at the Harwell space cluster in Oxfordshire. It builds and operates small satellites as a complete mission service, handling design, launch and data delivery for customers. The company runs constellations for governments and companies monitoring the environment and infrastructure.
News
Open Cosmos Raises $346M to Expand Manufacturing and Government Services in Europe
European satellite manufacturer Open Cosmos raised 300 million euro (approximately $346 million) in a funding round led by European investors Lightrock,
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Open Cosmos raises €300M to scale satellite manufacturing across four European factories
Open Cosmos has raised €300M led by Lightrock to expand satellite mass manufacturing across four European factories and grow its constellation, connectivity and data services.
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Open Cosmos Unveils Space-Based IoT with Real-Time Earth Observation
Discover how Open Cosmos fuses global IoT connectivity with real-time Earth observation to monitor infrastructure, protect environments and speed disaster response.
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based rival Open Cosmos eyes India partnerships as it builds alternative to mega satellite constellations
Open Cosmos CEO Open Cosmos aims for stronger satellite project ties with IndiaCompany aims to build a global satellite network for secure dataOpen Cosmos ... - agriculture, AI, analytics, applications, artificial intelligence, ASIA, Business, CEO, China,
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Open Cosmos Secures Liechtenstein Ka-band Spectrum Filings for LEO
Liechtenstein awards Ka-band spectrum filings to Open Cosmos, enabling a sovereign LEO broadband constellation and strengthening Europe's space resilience.
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Boost for European space sovereignty as Open Cosmos gets Connected Computer Weekly
European space company acquires Portuguese startup that aims to offer affordable, standardised internet of things services from space and which claims to maintain a 100% mission success rate in orbit across all its satellite missions.
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Open Cosmos, a UK satellite startup focused on sustainability, raises $50M
Satellites have come into focus as a critical way -- and sometimes the only way -- to deliver communications and receive data about certain locations
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Open Cosmos over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
57
Postings analysed
23
Stack modernity
74/100AI adopter
Languages
Python48%
C++13%
MATLAB13%
VHDL13%
Frameworks & libraries
GDAL9%
NumPy9%
CUDA4%
D3.js4%
Databases
PostgreSQL9%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes17%
Linux17%
AWS9%
GCP9%
AI & ML
LLM4%
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57 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
25
1 opened / 11 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
161 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 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% ▼
Hardware
25% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
Analytics
13% ▲
Operations
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added CUDA Toolkit to stack
Oct 2026
Added CUDA to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Didcot
Sep 2026
Removed Windows from stack
Sep 2026
Added MPLS to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Siemens ModelSim to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
Didcot
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Harwell
United Kingdom
HQ
Didcot
United Kingdom
Regional office
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19 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 47% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware
Open Cosmos Ltd. Unit 8, BEP0 Building, Thomson Ave, Didcot, OX11 0GD, United Kingdom - Company number 09704443
Pallini
Greece
Regional office
5 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Product, Sales
Kolomvou 6
Barcelona
Spain
Regional office
3 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Product, Sales, Industrial Engineering
Open Cosmos
Porto
Portugal
2 open roles 50% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Industrial Engineering
Jobs
≈ $68k – $165k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Python
CUDA Toolkit
NumPy
CUDA
DevOps
Linux
SpaceTech
GDAL
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≈ $54k – $104k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Python
Rust
Verilog
VHDL
Siemens ModelSim
Xilinx Vivado
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $67k – $162k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Rust
C++
RTOS
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
GitLab
Linux
QA
Pytest
Apply
≈ $56k – $128k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Barcelona
CAPA
Apply
≈ $68k – $164k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $54k – $105k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Verilog
C
C++
VHDL
Embedded C
DevOps
RTOS
Apply
≈ $66k – $147k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Python
C++
MATLAB
Simulink
Apply
≈ $68k – $120k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
Platform Engineering
MPLS
Robotics
Digital Twin
Apply
≈ $64k – $143k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Didcot
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Apply
Apply
≈ $72k – $170k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Didcot
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$7.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
17
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | Details |
| Grant | 2023 | $271k | Details |
| Grant | 2023 | $128k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |
| Grant | 2020 | $95k | Details |
| Grant | 2019 | $54k | Details |
| Series A | 2018 | $7M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | Details |
| Grant | 2017 | $85k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2016 | — | Details |