Team itself involved: Tumbleweed raises 6.9 million euros for research in orbit
DE · Team selbst beteiligt: Tumbleweed holt 6,9 Millionen Euro für Forschung im Orbit
The Vienna-based startup Tumbleweed has secured €6.9 million in seed capital. In addition to lead investor PactVC, the company’s own team also contributed around €300,000 to the round.
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- Vienna-based startup Tumbleweed secured €6.9 million in seed capital from PactVC, Vanagon Ventures, Prototype Capital, EWOR, and international business angels.
- More than a third of the 25 employees invested a total of around €300,000 of their own funds in the round.
- Tumbleweed develops standardized payload containers for microgravity experiments; the pods are designed to provide pharmaceutical, biotech, and materials research teams with access to power and data in orbit.
- With the funding, the company plans three missions in 2027 for more than ten clients and is working on Oasis Beta, with experiments scheduled to return to Earth starting in 2028.
- Co-founder and CEO Julian Rothenbuchner says the Oasis Alpha mission demonstrated that microgravity can be more broadly available as an industrial resource.
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