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Cailabs

Space · Rennes, France · Founded 2013

Photonic solutions for space, industry, telecom, and defense MoreLess

Manufacturer of photonics products designed to reshape coherent light beams. The company's innovative optical ground station design, built on the expertise gained during the development of previous lines of products and a unique capability to compensate for atmospheric turbulence, will make those connections possible, reliably, and affordably, enabling clients to solve critical industrial problems related to photonics. Keywords: Technology Hardware, New Materials and Construction, Coherent Light Beam, Free Space Optical, Industrial Laser, Laser Communications, Optical Design, Optical Fiber, Optical Ground Station, Optical Shaping, Photonics Product, Photonics Solutions, Spatial Manipulation.

Company overview

Cailabs company information

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Status
Operational
Founded
2013
Headquarters
Rennes, France
Employees
192
Open positions
25
Dealroom signal
92.7
client focusb2btechnologyHardwaretechnologyDeep Techbusiness modelManufacturingsectorDefence ApplicationssectorLaser TechnologysectorSpinoutsectorEICsectorSpace TechsectorIndustrial TechnologysectorEIC FundsectorESAsectorESA SMEsectorSpace Vehicles Components and Payloads

Valuation & funding

Cailabs funding history

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
LATE VCOther financing Sep 2025 $22M $88M Crédit Agricole Île-de-France · NewSpace Capital · Bpifrance · Starquest Capital
DEBTDebt Sep 2025 $41M European Investment Bank
SUPPORT PROGRAMOther financing Oct 2023 $83K CASSINI Initiative · Cassini Business Accelerator · EUSPA
SERIES COther financing Dec 2022 $29M $114M Bpifrance · Crédit Agricole d'Ille-et-Vilaine Expansion · StarQuest Ventures · Innovacom
GRANTOther financing Mar 2022 $2.5M European Innovation Council
SERIES BOther financing Oct 2019 Starquest Capital · Innovacom · Safran · Supernova Invest
EARLY VCOther financing Jul 2017 Innovacom · Starquest Capital · Safran
SERIES AOther financing Jun 2016 Innovacom · Starquest Capital
SEEDOther financing Nov 2013 Kima Ventures · Innovacom
SPINOUTOther financing Jun 2013 SATT LUTECH · French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS · CNRS Innovation · Sorbonne University
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Growth signals

Cailabs website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Cailabs is 20K monthly website visits, up 100% over the last three months. Cailabs's team grew 18.5% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits20K 3-month web change+100% 1-year team growth+18.5%
Monthly website visits125 observations · Feb 2016–Jul 2026
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Comparisons

Cailabs compared with similar companies

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Talent graph

Cailabs's talent

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Team profiled 13 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 6 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Investors

21 investors on Cailabs's cap table

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Seed 3 investors entered at this stage
Kima Ventures
Innovacom
European Innovation Council
Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Starquest Capital
Safran
Supernova Invest
Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage
NewSpace Capital
Bpifrance
Crédit Agricole d'Ille-et-Vilaine Expansion
StarQuest Ventures
EIC Fund
Crédit Agricole Île-de-France
European Investment Bank
Other known 8 additional known investors
Agoranov
Cassini Business Accelerator
CASSINI Initiative
CNRS Innovation
EUSPA
French National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS
SATT LUTECH
Sorbonne University

Global footprint

Where Cailabs has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
5 countries with
team presence
🇫🇷 France94.2%
🇺🇸 United States3.9%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.6%
🇱🇺 Luxembourg0.6%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.6%
5 countries shown

In the news

Latest news about Cailabs

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Cailabs

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