Look Up, a Toulouse-based startup innovating orbital security and house surveillance, has raised €50 million to develop its radar community and house site visitors administration providers globally.
This Sequence A spherical, one of many largest in European SpaceTech over the previous decade, contains fairness, debt, and public grants – completely from European monetary gamers. The €24 million fairness portion is led by ETF Companions, with participation from Leadwind (KFund), the EU’s EIC Fund, and returning buyers MIG Capital, Karista, and Enlargement.
Moreover, the European Union is supporting the enlargement with €15 million in non-dilutive funding, and a number of other banking establishments have joined the spherical via debt financing.
In response to Michel Friedling, Co-founder of Look Up: “Look Up stands out with a holistic imaginative and prescient and a singular technique. Our purpose is to turn into a worldwide participant in house security and operations. This funding will allow us to proceed deploying our radar community worldwide and improve our digital options to deal with the escalating problem of an more and more congested and unstable orbital surroundings. It additionally strengthens our positioning in a sector poised for consolidation at each European and world ranges.”
Based in 2022 by Michel Friedling, former head of the French Area Command, and Juan Carlos Dolado Perez, ex-Chief of Area Surveillance at CNES, Look Up is constructing a worldwide radar community—SORASYS—to observe every little thing from functioning satellites to centimetre-scale particles orbiting Earth.
With over 60 staff as of June 2025, the crew plans to succeed in 100 by 12 months’s finish.
The corporate, which launched simply three years in the past, is already working a high-precision radar in France and can quickly set up two extra in French Polynesia.
The funding can be used to deploy new radar models, launch an area operations centre, speed up the corporate’s worldwide push, and validate its “Area-Operations-as-a-Service” mannequin with an in-orbit demonstration. Look Up’s full-stack answer additionally contains ATLAS2, an EU-backed programme for automated low-Earth orbit security.
Juan Carlos Dolado, Co-founder, echoed this built-in method: “Look Up’s know-how imaginative and prescient is constructed on three pillars: first, the power to detect orbital objects 24/7 with excessive revisit charges because of our radar community; second, the power to analysse and perceive the house area in actual time via our SYNAPSE platform; and third, the power to allow protected and sustainable house operations. This built-in imaginative and prescient permits us to fulfill the rising demand for coordinated house site visitors administration from each private and non-private operators, making certain the long-term sustainability of house actions.”
Whereas 90% of present low-Earth orbit monitoring is performed by the USA, Look Up’s enlargement factors to Europe’s strategic ambitions to reclaim sovereignty in house surveillance. With a radar in France already purposeful and Polynesia on the horizon, Look Up goals to furhter Europe’s function within the area of orbital infrastructure.
Rémy de Tonnac, Senior Accomplice at ETF Companions, emphasised the mission-driven nature of the funding: “ETF Companions is proud to help Europe’s rising chief in sustainable house applied sciences. We firmly consider that in an effort to allow a sustainable earth we should guarantee a sustainable house. By addressing the growing dangers of collisions and particles administration, Look Up is making a safer orbital surroundings the place satellites can safely function and turn into insurable property. It is a essential basis for a sustainable house financial system, balancing environmental duty and technological progress”
