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INVESTORS
Space hardware is scaling faster than the systems that build and deploy it. Orbital Matter removes the bottleneck by manufacturing structures in orbit.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are launching more and more satellites each year. But they are also getting bigger and more power hungry. Next-generation constellations, space data centers, and high-power communication systems all require solar arrays, radiators, and antennas far larger than what can be folded into a fairing and survive launch.
The space industry has optimized origami engineering for decades, but the physics of folding and launch vibration create a hard ceiling on size, reliability, and cost. The structural limit is no longer a design problem — it's a manufacturing location problem.
Orbital Matter moves manufacturing beyond Earth. Our PADS system constructs continuous rigid structures in orbit, eliminating hinges, latches, and mechanical complexity. The result: structures at scales from 10 meters to over 100 meters without additional complexity and cost, built where they're needed.
WHY ORBITAL MATTER
Multiple missions flown and validated in orbit. We don't just simulate — we build, launch, and iterate on real hardware in space.
PADS uses UV-curing extrusion that demands less power than a light bulb and fits in a package smaller than a brick. No thermal processing, no mechanical complexity — just liquid resin, UV light, and rigid structure in seconds.
PADS builds supports for solar arrays, radiators, and antennas from the same system. Larger structures cost less per meter, not more — the economics invert at scale.
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WHAT OUR INVESTORS SAY
Central and Eastern Europe has exceptional deep tech talent in space and defense, yet most Western VCs overlook it. Orbital Matter is exactly what we look for at Sunfish Partners: world-class technical founders building category-defining hardware. From Warsaw, they operate at a fraction of the cost, with ESA and Thales partnerships already in place.
We invest in companies that jumpstart entirely new industries, not incrementally improve existing ones. Orbital Matter isn't making a better deployable — they're eliminating the need for deployables altogether. When the economics of building structures invert at scale, you're looking at infrastructure that enables space data centers, mega-constellations, and lunar construction. That's a new industry.
PARTNERS
We're looking for investors who understand that the biggest infrastructure opportunity of the next decade isn't on Earth.