Aalyria, an advanced aerospace communications company, has closed a $100 million Series B round, pushing its valuation to $1.3 billion. The round was led by Battery Ventures and J2 Ventures, with additional participation from DYNE and other investors. The financing marks a significant milestone for a company that has spent just a few years establishing itself as a core infrastructure provider for next-generation space communications.
The announcement comes as demand for high-performance satellite connectivity continues to accelerate. Governments, defense organizations, and commercial operators are all building out more complex networks in orbit, and the gap between raw satellite capacity and real-world usability has become a serious engineering challenge. Aalyria's products are designed specifically to close that gap.
Traditional wireless networks broadcast signals widely. Aerospace and defense networks work differently. They rely on narrow, directional beams to deliver data faster, more securely, and at greater distances by concentrating energy on intended receivers only. The problem is that moving vehicles, shifting weather, and terrain blockages constantly disrupt these high-throughput, directional links.
As Low Earth Orbit constellations multiply and missions grow in complexity, the need for software that can manage these networks intelligently has become impossible to ignore. Tens of thousands of satellites are being launched. Data volumes are growing fast. And the old approach of connecting assets point-to-point no longer scales. Aalyria's two flagship products, Spacetime and Tightbeam, were built to address exactly this.
"We're at an inflection point where the world is increasingly connected in space: tens of thousands of satellites are launching, data volumes are exploding, and traditional point-to-point links can't keep up," said Alex Harstrick, Managing Partner at J2 Ventures. "Aalyria has cracked the code on network orchestration at scale, treating space systems as intelligent, coordinated networks rather than isolated assets. The combination of Spacetime's software intelligence and Tightbeam's throughput positions Aalyria as essential infrastructure for the next generation of space communications."
The new funding will support the continued rollout of Spacetime, a managed platform that orchestrates and continuously optimizes directional networks in real time as assets move and conditions change. It will also expand deployment of Tightbeam, Aalyria's proven ultra-high-speed laser communications terminals, which deliver secure, high-capacity links through the atmosphere. Together, the two platforms turn isolated land, sea, air, and space systems into a single, coordinated network.
CEO Chris Taylor described the broader ambition: "Every major infrastructure shift — from railroads to telecommunications to the internet — required a control plane that could coordinate complexity at scale. Space is no different — nor are the varied businesses and missions that space serves. This funding accelerates our path to becoming that ubiquitous control plane: the digital cartilage that connects thousands of independent satellites, aircraft, ships, fiber, and ground stations into a single, intelligent network that can route around failures, optimize for mission priorities, and adapt in real-time."
Aalyria was founded in 2021 by Chris Taylor, Brian Barritt, and others through the acquisition of two breakthrough inventions developed from over a decade of research at Google and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The company is headquartered in Livermore, California, with additional offices in Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, and London.
Its technology is already deployed across flagship commercial satellite programs, including next-generation LEO constellations, as well as missions supporting the U.S. Government and allied partners. Aalyria's platforms are built to work across multiple orbital regimes and mission types, coordinating satellites, ground stations, airborne assets, and terrestrial networks within a single operational framework.
The company has established strategic partnerships with Telesat, Google Public Sector, NASA, Airbus, ALL.SPACE, Keysight Technologies, Logos Space, the European Space Agency, and multiple U.S. military services and field activities. These collaborations span next-generation connectivity programs, space domain awareness initiatives, and mission-critical communications systems.
Telesat President and CEO Dan Goldberg noted the direct integration with their own network: "Aalyria's orchestration and network-optimization technologies are a key performance and resiliency enabler for our Telesat Lightspeed architecture. Spacetime's dynamic routing, spectrum-aware resource management, and advanced link prediction capabilities will be integrated with our system design, strengthening end-to-end service delivery across our global LEO network."
Battery Ventures, one of the round's co-leads, sees Aalyria as foundational infrastructure for the communications architectures that defense and commercial operators are now building. "Aalyria has built an extremely important platform at the intersection of advanced networking, AI-driven orchestration, and national security," said Michael Brown, General Partner at Battery Ventures and incoming board member at Aalyria. "The team's ability to deliver resilient, software-defined connectivity across complex environments positions the company to play a foundational role in next-generation communications architectures."
The round also included co-lead J2 Ventures and participation from DYNE. Berenson & Company, LLC acted as exclusive financial advisor to Aalyria on the transaction.
