Look Up, a Toulouse-based startup innovating orbital security and house surveillance, has raised €50 million to increase its radar community and house site visitors administration providers globally.
This Collection A spherical, one of many largest in European SpaceTech over the previous decade, consists of 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 traders 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 by way of debt financing.
Based on Michel Friedling, Co-founder of Look Up: “Look Up stands out with a holistic imaginative and prescient and a novel technique. Our aim is to develop into a world participant in house security and operations. This funding will allow us to proceed deploying our radar community worldwide and improve our digital options to handle 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 international ranges.”
Based in 2022 by Michel Friedling, former head of the French House Command, and Juan Carlos Dolado Perez, ex-Chief of House Surveillance at CNES, Look Up is constructing a world radar community—SORASYS—to watch all the things from functioning satellites to centimetre-scale particles orbiting Earth.
With over 60 staff as of June 2025, the crew plans to achieve 100 by yr’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 will probably be used to deploy new radar models, launch an area operations centre, speed up the corporate’s worldwide push, and validate its “House-Operations-as-a-Service” mannequin with an in-orbit demonstration. Look Up’s full-stack resolution additionally consists of 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 by way of our SYNAPSE platform; and third, the power to allow secure 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 US, Look Up’s enlargement factors to Europe’s strategic ambitions to reclaim sovereignty in house surveillance. With a radar in France already practical and Polynesia on the horizon, Look Up goals to furhter Europe’s position within the area of orbital infrastructure.
Rémy de Tonnac, Senior Companion 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 with the intention 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 develop into insurable belongings. It is a vital basis for a sustainable house financial system, balancing environmental accountability and technological progress”
