Investment in Space Startups Accelerating, Bryce Says
Since 2000, startup space ventures -- companies that began as angel- and venture capital-backed startups -- have attracted $18.4-plus billion in investment, Bryce Space and Technology reported Tuesday. Most of that has come in recent years, with $2.4 billion in…
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2015, $3 billion in 2016 and $2.5 billion last year, it said. The early 2000s had an average of four funded space companies starting annually, but the average has been 19 annually over the past six years, Bryce said. It said 2017's $2.5 billion figure involved 164 investors putting money into 73 startup ventures -- up from 136 investors and 65 ventures the year before. About 75 of all investment -- and 90 percent of seed and angel investment -- came from U.S. investors since 2015, it said.