Array Labs has secured $20m in Series A funding in a round led by Catapult Ventures, with participation from Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC and a mix of new and existing investors, including Y Combinator, Maiora Capital, Animal Capital, Aera VC, Cultivation Capital and Clearance Ventures. The latest raise brings the company’s total funding to $35m since it emerged from Y Combinator, following a $5m seed round in 2022 and a further $10m round in 2024.
The company says it has developed what it believes to be the first radar architecture designed for mass production using manufacturing methods drawn from consumer electronics and telecommunications. By applying these techniques, Array aims to significantly reduce costs while delivering substantial gains in performance compared with traditional radar systems.
Andrew Peterson, cofounder and chief executive of Array Labs, said the radar satellite sector today resembles the space launch industry before the arrival of SpaceX, with a reliance on bespoke, high-cost systems built one at a time by legacy defence contractors. He said Array has assembled a team with deep Silicon Valley experience to pursue a different model, producing radar at scale and at commercial price points without compromising capability.
During 2025, Array doubled its workforce, completed the design of its satellite bus, launched two new product lines and expanded commercial bookings to nine-figure contracted revenues. Over the past two years, the company has also secured around half a dozen government awards across branches of the US armed services, the intelligence community and several combatant commands.
Array was initially founded with the goal of deploying coordinated clusters of small satellites capable of cooperative imaging to generate real-time, three-dimensional maps of Earth. As its technology matured, the company found that its radar instruments alone were in high demand, prompting a strategic shift away from a vertically integrated data model toward a radar-focused platform business.
As a result, Array now operates across three core areas. It supplies standalone radar payloads for satellite manufacturers and defence primes seeking high-power, low-cost systems that can be produced at scale and integrated with a range of satellite buses. It also delivers sovereign satellite systems, providing fully integrated spacecraft and dedicated constellations for customers requiring their own assets for wide-area, high-resolution intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, including target identification across land, sea, air and space. In addition, Array offers data products, delivering three-dimensional imagery and analytics from its own satellite constellation to commercial and civil users.
All three business lines are underpinned by the company’s core technology, a family of radar instruments that it says can deliver up to 100 times the power of legacy systems at roughly one per cent of the cost. These instruments are designed to fit standard small satellites, scaled buses and larger platforms planned for next-generation launch vehicles such as Starship and New Glenn.
Array’s approach combines consumer electronics manufacturing, communications technology and advanced signal processing to create radar systems that are significantly cheaper than conventional alternatives while offering far greater performance. The company says its radar is powerful enough for global detection and tracking missions, including large-scale defence initiatives, and can be rapidly integrated by partners. This hardware capability is complemented by AI-driven software that converts raw radar data into actionable three-dimensional intelligence rather than static imagery.
With the new Series A funding, Array plans to expand its engineering, product and go-to-market teams, increase production capacity to meet rising demand for its radar panels, complete flight qualification and move toward launching what it describes as the world’s first formation-flying radar satellite cluster.
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