Griffin Cleverly
Founder
Northwood
Northwood is an end-to-end ground infrastructure provider that vertically integrates hardware, software, and network operations to connect satellites to Earth. The company's Portal phased array system supports simultaneous multi-orbit connections across LEO, MEO, and GEO, with new antennas deployable in hours. Northwood serves government and commercial space operators, including the US Space Force and Planet Labs.
- Space Technology
- Telecommunications
- Hardware
- Aerospace
- Software Only
Updated yesterday
Funding
Raised to date
$511.3MRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
across 4 rounds
+13$375M · Series C
Announced Nov 2026
Disclosed cumulative: $511.3M
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Founders
Bridgit Mendler
Founder
Shaurya Luthra
Founder
Product
Problem
Securing ground connectivity for satellite missions often takes longer than building and launching the spacecraft themselves. The ground segment is a multidisciplinary challenge involving physics, timing, software, networking, hardware, global operations, regulatory approvals, and security, yet it is typically treated as disconnected components from multiple vendors, resulting in vendor sprawl, manual orchestration, hidden integration costs, and systems that break as network demands change.
Solution
Northwood is an end-to-end ground infrastructure provider that vertically integrates the entire ground stack—from initial concept through deployment to live data delivery—to collapse what used to take years into months and months into days. The company builds hardware that deploys in hours, software that orchestrates every contact, and a shared network that keeps data moving from spacecraft to customer. Northwood's approach works like cloud computing, where global capacity and routing scale on demand without the usual procurement cycles, vendor coordination, or integration challenges. The company is accountable for bringing links to spacecraft online and keeping them running, from end to end.
Target Audience
Northwood's primary customers are government and commercial space operators, including the US Space Force and commercial satellite companies such as Planet Labs, that need reliable, scalable ground infrastructure for high-capability space missions.
Features
- Portal: a multi-beam phased array system that electronically steers multiple beams in real time, enabling precise tracking and handovers without mechanical movement
- Supports simultaneous transmitting and receiving connections across low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and geostationary orbit (GEO)
- Dynamic movement of spacecraft across orbits, a capability that currently takes upwards of two years to deploy per ground antenna with fixed-aperture systems
- Vertically integrated stack covering hardware, software, and network operations to eliminate vendor sprawl and manual orchestration
- Designed for diverse missions across government and commercial sectors, including communications, manufacturing, and energy