Aalyria, a leading-edge aerospace communications firm providing key technologies for next-generation space and multi-domain connectivity, announced the closing of its $100 million Series B round of funding, which valued the company at $1.3 billion. The round was co-led by Battery Ventures and J2 Ventures, with participation from DYNE and other strategic investors.
The new capital will accelerate Aalyria’s mission to deliver resilient, high-throughput networks in motion at global scale across space, air, land, and maritime environments. Funding will support expanded deployments of Spacetime, the company’s managed orchestration platform that continuously optimizes highly directional networks in real time as assets move and conditions change, as well as Tightbeam, Aalyria’s ultra-high-speed laser communications terminals designed to provide secure, high-capacity connectivity through the atmosphere. Together, Spacetime and Tightbeam enable land, sea, air, and space systems to evolve from isolated point-to-point links into adaptive, coordinated networks of networks.
Aalyria was founded in 2021 by CEO Chris Taylor, CTO Brian Barritt, and other industry veterans following the acquisition of two breakthrough technologies developed through more than a decade of research at Google and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
“We started Aalyria to build what space has been missing: a true communications and networking layer that scales with human and market demand,” said Taylor. “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. We’re not just connecting space systems – we’re making space infrastructure as reliable and programmable as the Internet itself.”
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Aalyria helps commercial and government entities build resilient, high-throughput networks in motion in contested and highly dynamic environments. As the aerospace and defense communications industry turns to increasingly narrow, highly directional wireless beams to deliver data faster, farther, and more securely, they are constantly disrupted by the presence of moving entities, weather patterns, and terrain. Aalyria’s software-defined orchestration and optical communications solutions are specifically designed to address these issues and are generally considered essential to the new global space economy.
“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.”
Aalyria’s solutions are already being used to help support flagship commercial satellite programs, such as next-generation low Earth orbit satellite constellations, as well as U.S. Government and allied missions. The company’s solutions are designed to work seamlessly together across multiple orbital environments and mission types to enable real-time coordination between satellites, ground systems, airborne systems, and terrestrial networks.
“Aalyria’s orchestration and network-optimization technologies are a key performance and resiliency enabler for our Telesat Lightspeed architecture,” said Dan Goldberg, President and CEO of Telesat. “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.”
Within a brief span of accelerated growth, Aalyria has come to be recognized as a strategic technology partner within the global space and aerospace community, working to support both commercial and public sector connectivity initiatives. Aalyria is working in partnership with various entities such as Telesat, Google Public Sector, NASA, Airbus, ALL.SPACE, Keysight Technologies, Logos Space, and the European Space Agency, as well as various military services and operational units within the U.S. Government.
“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.”
