The funding blends private investment from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, and Armilar Venture Partners with support from Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan to bolster Europe’s sovereign SDA capabilities.

Manfletti also highlights expanding Europe’s sovereign SDA capabilities while delivering AI-enabled services essential for next-generation commercial, institutional, and defense missions.

Neuraspace frames the challenge as the convergence of safety and security, focusing on risk assessment, threat detection, and decision-support for operators facing RF interference, cyberattacks, and signal jamming.

CEO Dr. Chiara Manfletti emphasizes shifting from safety alone to a unified challenge of safety and security, signaling Europe’s sovereign capability expansion in SDA.

Plans include deploying more optical ground stations globally to strengthen Europe’s autonomous sensing, and expanding software engineering and astrodynamics teams in Lisbon, Luxembourg, and Germany to support defense integration.

Key customers include the Portuguese Air Force and NATO, with a European Ministry of Defense selecting Neuraspace to bolster civil and defense space services.

In response to rising LEO congestion and growing cyber, RF, and navigation interference threats, Neuraspace emphasizes continuous operational awareness and rapid decision support.

The company will add radar capabilities to its optical telescope network, creating a multi-source data stream for its SDA platform.

Neuraspace aims to enable autonomous space operations, sovereign detection infrastructures, and AI-enabled space security for operators, governments, and defense organizations.

Neuraspace, a Portuguese startup, raised €15.6 million ($18 million) to scale its AI-powered space-domain awareness and space-traffic-management platform and to expand orbital sensing infrastructure.

The funding marks a growth phase for Europe’s space-sector sovereignty and competitiveness, expanding AI capabilities and autonomous mission operations to meet commercial, institutional, and defense needs.

Neuraspace reports revenue growth of more than 350% in the past year and monitors over 600 satellites for clients including the NATO and the European Space Agency, with contracts across commercial and defense sectors.