CategorySpace
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Japanese startup developing commercial satellite reentry vehicles for microgravity research and cargo return. Founded by CEO Ryohei Kobayashi, HQ in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Building ELS-R series with lift-guided reentry technology developed with JAXA and Tohoku University. Total raised: USD 63.5M including USD 40M Series B (June 2026). AOBA, Japan's first private reentry satellite, launching mid-2027. Partnerships with Axiom Space and Redwire. 90+ employees.
Reality check
Total raised (company-claimed)
Jun 2026: About $63.5M in total after the $40M Series B.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
First launch
Product (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (1)
View all models →ElevationSpace on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Ryohei Kobayashi CEO & Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for ElevationSpace.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
ElevationSpace in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every ElevationSpace competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
space(56)
36 companies in this segment · low_concentration (HHI 1188.742650389188) · leader K2 Space at 2172%
- Aetherfluxdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agile Space Industriesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Albedo Spacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astroscaledirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names ElevationSpace.
Robots and products (1)
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $40.0M
- Employees
- 78
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Series B2026-06-19
$40M(reported)
Investors: Animal Spirits (follow), Aozora Corporate Investment (follow), Dai Nippon Printing (follow), Energy & Environment (follow), SPARX Group (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in ElevationSpace’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2026-06-19Series B raising $40000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for ElevationSpace.Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning ElevationSpace from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/elevationspace.md
- RSS feed: /companies/elevationspace/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/0e893a02-9c2e-4c78-96d8-62ff7f9a45da
- Revision history: /companies/elevationspace/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Impulse Space6 models
- AstroForge3 models
- Astrobotic Technology3 models
- Blackswan Space3 models
- China National Space Administration3 models
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory3 models
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
ElevationSpace draws attention at the 2nd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Active fundraising activity with a recent closing. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Nov 6, 2026