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Planet Labs
Largest earth observation satellite network delivering a near-daily global dataset
At a glance
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- Public via SPAC 2021
- Sector
- Space
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Planet Labs.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
Innovation Endeavors
Founders Fund- OVO'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
- CGCapricorn Investment Group
DCVC
Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage
Lux Capital
Industry Ventures- PVPrelude Ventures
- RRRay Rothrock
International Finance Corporation
AME Cloud Ventures- EDEDBI
Plug and Play
Felicis- NCNASA Ames Research Center
- YMYuri Milner
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Planet Labs employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MSMuon SpaceEst. 2021
Paul Day.United States
LALabelboxEst. 2018
Manu SharmaUnited States
AAAlcatraz AIEst. 2016
Vince GaydarzhievUnited States
ASAstranisEst. 2015
Ryan McLinkoUnited States
SASamara AerospaceEst. 2022
Vedant -United StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
27 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Planet Labs was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
7 deals across Planet Labs's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Planet Labs deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Planet Labs's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Planet Labs on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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