The Exploration Company
French tech company | Builders Republic
About
Space company building orbital transport systems — Nyx, a reusable, in-orbit refillable cargo capsule compatible with any heavy launcher that docks with low-Earth-orbit space stations and returns payloads to Earth, and Storm, a high-thrust rocket engine for a reusable European heavy launcher.
Key facts
- Status
- Active
- Sectors
- Defense & Aerospace
- Latest stage
- Series C
- Founded
- 2021
- City
- LE HAILLAN
- Region
- Nouvelle Aquitaine
- Tracked rounds
- 4
- Amount raised
- 583 M€ raised since 2020
Recognition
- Unicorn since 2026-09 (2.0 bn$)
Funding rounds
- Series C · 2026
- Series B · 2024
- Series A · 2023
- Seed · 2021
Investors
- Atomico
- Balderton Capital
- Bayern Kapital
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- Bpifrance Deeptech Venture
- Cherry Ventures
- DeepTech & Climate Fonds
- EQT Ventures
- Habert Dassault Finance
- July Fund
- NGP Capital
- Omnes Capital
- Partech
- Plural
- Possible Ventures
- Promus Ventures
- Red River West
- Rymdkapital
- Scaleup Europe Fund
- Sistafund
- SLB
- Vsquared Ventures
- Wealth Management Alliance