Primordial Labs Raises $18.5M Series A Round

Icarus Robotics

Icarus is developing dexterous mobile robots to augment astronaut crews by handling routine, time-consuming, and hazardous tasks at a fraction of the cost of human labor—unlocking scalable commercial manufacturing and experimentation in space. With design partnerships already established with leading commercial space destinations and NASA, we raised $6.1M in seed funding in just 12 days from top-tier investors. We're currently preparing for our first deployment to the ISS in partnership with one of our customers for full scale testing. Our long-term vision is to become the leading space robotics company, enabling automated orbital factories and supporting lunar, Martian, and deep space exploration as the space economy rapidly expands.

NewCo

NewCo Shift: A Cross-platform Publication NewCo Shift illuminates the companies, leaders, and issues driving the transition to a sustainable, positive-impact business ecosystem. In addition to the festivals, NewCo produces Shift Forum, an executive leadership conference which brings together founders, innovators, and CEOs from fast-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 leaders with an array of experts from the policy and regulation fields to discuss how business can navigate the shifting landscape of rapid technological change and regulatory uncertainty. We expand upon the conversations started at our live events through NewCo Shift, our multi-platform publication which illuminates the companies, leaders, and issues driving the transition to a sustainable, positive-impact business ecosystem. The brainchild of six-time media and tech entrepreneur John Battelle, NewCo Shift is defining a new approach to business journalism through editorial features, profiles, video, and more. It features content from notable writers and thinkers on a range of topics impacting global business today.