CategorySpace
Appears inLogistics robots
Overview
Swiss space company building HummingSat geostationary small satellites using 3D printing technology. Founded 2011 by Emile de Rijk (CEO) as EPFL spinout. USD 140M revenue in 2025, USD 500M+ in total contracts, 110% CAGR since 2022.
Positive EBITDA in 2026. Seven HummingSat contracts with operators including SES and Viasat. USD 70M Series C (Jul 2026).
ESA ARTES partnership with USD 84.8M award. First HummingSat delivery for SES in 2027.
Reality check
Financials (company-claimed)
Jul 2026: About $140M revenue for 2025, more than $500M in contracted orders, and roughly 110% CAGR since 2022.
HummingSat orders (company-claimed)
Jul 2026: Seven HummingSat GEO small-satellite contracts with operators including SES and Viasat.
HummingLink in orbit (company-claimed)
Jul 2026: More than 2,000 HummingLink multi-orbit payload and antenna solutions are deployed in orbit.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
ESA award
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →SWISSto12 on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where SWISSto12's robots are operating, by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Emile de Rijk CEO & Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for SWISSto12.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- SWISSto122 deployments
Recent coverage
SWISSto12 in third-party press
Peers
56 peers across 1 segment. Every SWISSto12 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%
- Northwood Spacedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Aetherfluxdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Agile Space Industriesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Airbusdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Albedo Spacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Astrobotic Technologydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names SWISSto12.
People (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $70.0M
- Employees
- 200
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Funding rounds (1)
- Series C2026-07-16
$70M(reported)
Timeline
Every recorded move in SWISSto12’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2026-07-16Series C raising $70000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
HummingSat GEO SmallSat at Switzerland, Europe
- Deployment recordedJun 1, 2024
HummingSat GEO SmallSat at United States
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-13
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-13
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for SWISSto12.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 SWISSto12 from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/swissto12.md
- RSS feed: /companies/swissto12/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/964be15c-a143-4185-9013-07204c1e32a6
- Revision history: /companies/swissto12/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
SWISSto12 draws attention at the 2nd percentile but verifies reality at the 50th percentile among space robots. Hype Gap -47.7, 38th widest among space robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Active fundraising activity with a recent closing. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Signal flags
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 7, 2026