Skybox in the News
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April 19th, 2012WSJ (via Venture Wire)- "Skybox Imaging has raised $70 million to make satellite imagery widely accessible for commercial applications. Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners led the round. Unlike traditional satellite-imaging companies, Skybox is building its satellites with off-the-shelf components and in a much smaller size, bringing the cost of making them down to a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars a traditional satellite can cost."
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April 19th, 2012Chris Marlowe (Digital Media Wire) - "Skybox Imaging has closed $70 million in Series C financing to help expedite the launch of its ambitious service, which wants to make satellite imagery available as a service to news organizations, app developers, humanitarian organizations and others. This new funding was led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners."
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April 19th, 2012Matt Burns (TechCrunch) - "Skybox Imaging just closed a massive $70M Series C round led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund got in on the action as well. The new investors join Khosla Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners and brings Skybox Imaging’s total amount raised to $91 million."
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April 17th, 2012Skybox Imaging, a startup that wants to capture and analyze high-resolution photos and videos of the Earth from microsatellites, has raised $70 million in Series C funding led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. The money, which brings the Mountain View, Calif.-based company’s total investment to $91 million, will go toward completing development of the company’s first two satellites and then launching them into orbit. It also will help the company bolster its lineup of software engineers and data scientists, which might really be Skybox’s secret sauce.
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April 17th, 2012APRIL 17, 2012, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Skybox Imaging, an early-stage provider of satellite imagery, video, and big data analytics, today announced that it has raised $70 million in Series C financing led by Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. They join existing investors Khosla Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing the total amount raised to date to $91 million.
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March 12th, 2012Skybox Imaging featured in Nextgov article: "Intelligence agencies increasingly are looking beyond the satellite photos and secret reports upon which they've traditionally relied for insight into U.S. adversaries' actions and are turning to data-crunching algorithms that can sift through massive piles of disparate information, such as GPS reports, social media posts and online images, said Amr Awadallah, co-founder and CTO of CloudEra. Skybox Imaging, for example, has made a business out of sorting through satellite data to deliver commercial intelligence on demand, according to Awadallah..."
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February 29th, 2012Thanks Ted Greenwald for a great article in Forbes: "Remember what GPS looked like in the late ’90s? The Global Positioning System was a strategic asset controlled by the US government, which limited spatial resolution available to civilians. Well-heeled consumers could choose among a handful of expensive, under-designed receivers, but for most people, the benefit wasn’t worth the expense. Today, of course, GPS is ubiquitous..."
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February 24th, 2012Julian Mann, co-founder and VP Product Development & Research at Skybox Imaging, was featured in Free Enterprise: "Entrepreneur Julian Mann is a bit like a modern day James Bond. His hobbies include racing sailboats, SCUBA diving, and snowboarding. He interned at a small little outfit you may of heard of called NASA. And, he co-founded his company, Skybox Imaging, while doing his graduate research work at the Stanford Space Systems Development Lab (SSDL)..."
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February 22nd, 2012Skybox Imaging has been selected as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2012. What is a TR50 company? It is a business whose innovations force other businesses to alter their strategic course. TR50 members are nominated by Technology Review’s editors, who look for companies that over the last year have demonstrated original and valuable technology, are bringing that technology to market at a significant scale, and are clearly influencing their competitors...
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February 21st, 2012Great article in Business Insider about Big Data and Skybox Imaging: "Big data is literally changing what computers can do. You are already benefiting because big data brought you Google. And we've only just begun. Big data is changing things for three reasons..."