SARsatX, a KAUST portfolio startup, has secured $1.8 million in pre-seed funding and grants to advance satellite imagery analytics. The Saudi company designs and develops small Earth observation (EO) satellites that use synthetic aperture radar (SAR) — an active sensing system that illuminates the Earth’s surface and measures the reflected signal.
Delivering near real-time insights tailored to sectors across the MENA region, including agriculture, energy and defense, SARsatX is a spinoff from the KAUST-incubated TAQADAM Startup Accelerator, receiving Saudi Space Agency (SSA) and Communication Space and Technology Commission (CST) support.
Flat6Labs and NTDP-NextEra are partners in the pre-seed funding. The startup’s continuing success underscores KAUST’s role in driving financial investment and research advancements that enable reliable entrepreneurship in data collection and interpretation for industries in Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).