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  "text": "For as long as cameras have existed, seeing farther has meant building bigger optics.\n\nWe're building quantum camera platforms that break that rule and enable space domain awareness and reconnaissance missions.\n\nToday we're announcing strategic investments from Lockheed Martin Ventures and Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation, capping our pre-seed at over $10M in total funding.\n\nSeven months ago we came out of stealth with a first close led by Ground State Ventures. Since then, we completed on-sky demonstrations at a partner observatory, distinguishing closely spaced objects. Our Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Direct-to-Phase-II SBIR advanced into its second option period. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration selected us for an SBIR Phase I in orbital debris tracking and named us the winner of its $100,000 Space to Soil Challenge.\n\nOur cameras sort incoming light by its shape rather than its brightness, measuring information conventional systems discard. That means resolving detail below the diffraction limit at a fraction of the aperture, size, and cost.\n\nNext comes our first fielded camera. Flight heritage is planned through a hosted payload on a partner spacecraft.\n\nThank you to SBI US Gateway Fund, Plug and Play, Collaborative Fund, and TekVentures, and to Aether VC, milemark•capital, and ADIN for following on.\n\nLink to the full release in the first comment.",
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