The Exploration Company
French tech company | Builders Republic
About
Space company building Nyx, a reusable and in-orbit refillable cargo capsule — designed to launch on any heavy rocket, dock with space stations in low Earth orbit, and return payloads to Earth before being refurbished, positioned as a European alternative to SpaceX's Dragon.
Key facts
- Status
- Active
- Sectors
- Defense & Aerospace
- Latest stage
- Series B
- Founded
- 2021
- City
- LE HAILLAN
- Region
- Nouvelle Aquitaine
- Legal name
- THE EXPLORATION COMPANY
- SIREN
- 900427857
- Tracked rounds
- 2
- Amount raised
- 191 M€ raised since 2020
Funding rounds
- Series B — 2024
- Series A — 2023
Investors
- Balderton Capital
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- bpifrance
- Cherry Ventures
- Dassault
- DeepTech & Climate Fonds
- EQT Ventures
- July Fund
- NGP Capital
- Omnes Capital
- Partech
- Plural
- Promus Ventures
- Red River West
- Schlumberger
- Vsquared Ventures