Array Labs Secures $20 Million Series A to Scale Radar Production
Array Labs, a Palo Alto, CA-based startup building radar payload technology for satellites, has secured $20 million in funding to develop what it claims is the first radar architecture that can be mass-produced using technology from consumer electronics and telecommunications. The round was let by Catapult Ventures, with Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC, and other investors such as Y Combinator, Maiora Capital, Animal Capital, Aera VC, Cultivation Capital, and Clearance Ventures participating. Total funding for the startup now stands at $35 million, including a $5 million seed in 2022 and a $10 million round in 2024.
According to Array Labs, their approach to manufacturing significantly reduces costs and boosts performance compared to traditional methods. Array Labs CEO Andrew Peterson commented: “Right now, the radar satellite industry resembles space launch before SpaceX: it’s run by established defense contractors making custom, costly systems one at a time. We’ve put together a team from top Silicon Valley tech companies to take a new approach, making radar that’s scalable, affordable, and powerful.”
Initially, Array aimed to launch clusters of small satellites that would work together to create a real-time 3D map of Earth. Discovering high demand for their radar instruments, the company shifted focus to become a radar-first platform business instead of solely a remote-sensing data provider.
Over the past two years, Array Labs has earned competitive recognition and awards from about six government entities, spanning U.S. military branches, intelligence agencies, and major commands agencies such as the Air Force, Space Force, Navy, Army, SOCOM, and DARPA, for their advancements in antenna architectures, high-bandwidth communication, 3D reconstruction algorithms, and more.
Commercially, Array has signed multi-year agreements with companies in mining, infrastructure, and embodied AI, offering its radar cluster’s 3D data and analytics for industrial monitoring, infrastructure planning and protection, and improving autonomous system accuracy.
In 2025 alone, Array Labs doubled its workforce, finalized its satellite bus design, increased its commercial contracts to nine digits in revenue, and introduced two new product lines. The startup now has three core business lines: independent radar payloads, fully integrated satellites and satellite clusters, and 3D imagery and analytics from its proprietary satellite constellation. Array Labs is also developing a radar satellite cluster capable of formation flying.
The company says its radar is powerful enough for global monitoring missions, such as Golden Dome, while being easy for partners to integrate and use for new capabilities.
Array Labs plans to use the Series A funding to grow its engineering, product, and sales teams; increase production capacity to meet rising demand; complete flight qualification; and finally launch the world’s first formation-flying radar satellite cluster.