Kapta Secures Funding for Space Radar Development
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SEATTLE, Oct. 9, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Kapta Space, a developer of next-generation spaceborne radar payloads, today announced a $24 million Series A financing, bringing its total funding to $30 million. The round was led by Washington Harbour Partners and co-led by Bison Ventures, with participation from MetaVC and a group of new and existing investors including MYDA Capital, Entrada Ventures, Aurelia Foundry, and Fitz Gate Ventures.
The funding will help Kapta scale production of its technology to support multiple classified moving target indication (MTI) contracts the company secured earlier this year. Kapta was founded to address a central challenge in space-based radar intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR): delivering the persistent coverage needed to detect and maintain custody of moving threats across air, sea, and land. Conventional radar payloads have historically been too costly and complex to deploy across the large satellite constellations these missions require.
Kapta's modular Metamaterial Electronically Scanned Array (MESA™) architecture rethinks how electronically steerable radar payloads are built. This software-defined architecture is designed to deliver advanced radar performance with significantly lower cost, power requirements, and manufacturing complexity than traditional AESA approaches, unlocking a path to sensing at scale.
The challenge in persistent spaceborne awareness is not simply detecting and tracking a target; it's maintaining custody as that target moves. Kapta's electronically steerable radar architecture combines wide field-of-regard, rapid beam steering, and scalable apertures to enable spacecraft to search, track, revisit, and maintain awareness of dynamic targets at mission scale.
"We are thrilled with the result," said Milton Perque, Founder and CEO of Kapta Space.
For decades, traditional AESA payloads have been too costly and complex to deploy at the scale required for missions like MTI. Washington Harbour Partners, which led the Series A, believes Kapta's MESA architecture changes that equation with a modular, highly manufacturable approach to electronically steerable radar. They believe its combination of performance, cost, and scalability will make Kapta a foundational supplier to the next generation of U.S. and allied space architectures, and they are thrilled to lead the Series A.
Following the Series A, Kapta will focus on qualifying its payload for flight, expanding manufacturing capacity, and preparing for its first orbital demonstration. These sophisticated demo missions will move the company closer to supplying radar payloads at the scale that future MTI missions demand.
Washington Harbour Partners, based in Washington DC, is a private investment firm that brings a fresh approach to investors and founders, providing flexibility and deep operational expertise at all stages of the investment cycle, from growth equity to control buyouts. The firm has deep domain expertise in the areas of national security, defense technologies, cybersecurity, enterprise technologies, and technology-enabled services. In 2026, Washington Harbour Partners ranked sixth among all defense technology investors, and the highest ranked non-government affiliated firm to also fund private equity investments, in the Silicon Valley Defense Group's NatSec100 report, investing in 16 of the companies named to the list.