Companies · Space / Aerospace
SAN FRANCISCO · Space / Aerospace · refined from filed group “Other Technology”
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Orbital Sidekick, Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Orbital Sidekick, Inc. has raised $43M over 7 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the space/aerospace sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
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Orbital Sidekick, Inc. is one of 133 Space / Aerospace companies tracked from SAN FRANCISCO. By capital raised it ranks among the largest (ahead of 92% of sector peers), and mid-pack by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 67%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the space/aerospace sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Benchmarked against 133 companies in Space / Aerospace. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 92% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 63% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orb Aerospace, Inc. | Series A | $7.7M | $13.8M | 1.24× |
| Orbital Sidekick, Inc. this company | Series A | $43.0M | $11.1M | 1.00× |
| MagLev Aero Inc. | Series A | $16.8M | $8.6M | 0.78× |
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | $100K | 2017-04-26 | $556K | $3.5M | 90% |
| Series A | $4.7M | 2018-04-06 | $21.2M | $106.5M | 90% |
| Series A | $14.5M | 2020-12-23 | $65.9M | $273.6M | 90% |
| Series A | $7.0M | 2022-09-30 | $31.8M | $65.6M | 90% |
| Series A | $4.6M | 2024-03-19 | $20.9M | $24.1M | 90% |
| Series A | $8.6M | 2024-10-28 | $39.2M | $35.6M | 90% |
| Series A | $3.5M | 2025-06-30 | $15.9M | $11.1M | 90% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.
| Person | Role | Also runs | Tied since |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Smith | — | 14 other | 2022-09 |
| Michael Turner | — | 8 other | 2020-12 |
| Jill Smith | — | 3 other | 2018-04 |
| Joseph Pignato | — | 3 other | 2020-12 |
| Daniel Katz | — | 1 other | 2017-04 |
| Matthew Thoms | — | 1 other | 2018-04 |
| Eddy Ho | — | — | 2024-03 |
| Nick Stavropoulos | — | — | 2020-12 |
| Sam Dobbyn | — | — | 2022-09 |
| Tushar Prabhakar | — | — | 2017-04 |
Orbital Sidekick, Inc. is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BridgeSat, Inc. | Other Technology | Series A | $10.0M | $277.4M | network3 shared operators · same stage |
| Federated Wireless, Inc. | Telecommunications | Series C | $93.3M | $1.0B | network3 shared operators |
| Spin Memory, Inc. | Other Technology | Series B | $38.5M | $1.2B | network2 shared operators |
| Bye Aerospace Inc | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $24.9M | $278.3M | same sector · same stage |
| MagLev Aero Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $16.8M | $8.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Datical Inc | Other Technology | Series A | $25.9M | $277.4M | network1 shared operator · same stage |
| Next Level Aviation Holdings, LLC | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $15.0M | $341.8M | same sector · same stage |
| Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $42.1M | $77.1M | same sector |
Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Value · est | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpaceCraft, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Seed | $32.7M | 84% |
| Orbital Shift, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Pre-Seed | $17.8M | 83% |
| Reflect Orbital Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series B | $137.7M | 81% |
| Orbital Traction, Ltd. | Space / Aerospace | Seed | $26.5M | 81% |
| Orb Aerospace, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series A | $13.8M | 80% |
| Spaceflight Industries, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Series D+ | $1.0B | 80% |
| Precision Aerospace Components, Inc. | Space / Aerospace | Seed | $36.4M | 80% |
| OrbitalRx, Inc. | Other Technology | Seed | $3.6M | 79% |
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