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Spire Global

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United States
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Spire Global is a U.S.-based space satellite data company cooperating with Hancom InSpace on the Sejong-1 launch.

ORG RELATIONSHIP10/1/2021Hancom Group to launch Sejong-1 satellite in 2022, opening the world’s first three-tiered remote sensing image data service

Spire plans to launch a SpaceChain payload on a new satellite later 2021.

NARRATIVE GROWTH9/28/2021Spire and SpaceChain announce on-orbit blockchain demonstration

The Spire–NavSight merger raised $265,000,000 in cash for investing in sales, marketing, and product development operations to expand globally.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL9/14/2021Spire snaps up exactEarth in first acquisition as a public company

Spire Global is acquiring Canadian ship-tracking company exactEarth for about $161,200,000 through a mix of cash and stock.

ORG RELATIONSHIP9/14/2021Spire snaps up exactEarth in first acquisition as a public company

Spire Global listed on the New York Stock Exchange on 2021-08-17 after merging with a SPAC and raised $265,000,000 from the transaction.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL8/26/2021Geospatial intelligence giving supply chain clarity in uncertain times

Spire Global initially projected raising $475,000,000 from its SPAC transaction.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL8/26/2021Geospatial intelligence giving supply chain clarity in uncertain times

Spire Global raised about $265,000,000 in cash from its SPAC merger with NavSight.

ORG RELATIONSHIP8/17/2021Spire Global’s shares slip after first day of trading

Spire Global initially projected raising $475,000,000 from the SPAC deal when it announced the merger plans in March 2021.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL8/17/2021Spire Global’s shares slip after first day of trading

Dr. Neil Jacobs will work with Spire's leadership team to commercialize the company's weather solutions.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE8/6/2021Neil Jacobs Joins Spire Global as Scientific Advisor

Spire Global and Arqit have valuations north of $1,000,000,000 as they work through SPAC mergers.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL7/14/2021Seraphim’s investment trust gets firepower for bigger space deals

Stakes in the remaining four ventures—Spire Global, Arqit, Iceye, and D-Orbit—are set to be acquired by 2020-12-31, subject to the outcome of their ongoing fundraising activity.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/22/2021Seraphim Capital’s investment trust details $250 million public listing

Kamal Arafeh will work with Spire Global’s key business units to streamline the sales organization, reach new customer segments, and expand the company’s geographic footprint.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/16/2021Spire Global Appoints Senior Vice President of Sales

Hillary Yaffe guides Spire Global’s engagement with the investor community as Spire Global works to complete its merger with NavSight Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NSH) to become a publicly traded company.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/8/2021Spire Global Appoints Head of Communications

Mark Dembitz was Spire’s highest revenue producer in 2017 and built a multimillion-dollar potential deal pipeline across the government and private sectors in the Asia-Pacific region.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/6/2021Mark Dembitz to Lead Spire Maritime’s APAC Business

Momentus, Astra, Spire, BlackSky, Rocket Lab, and Redwire planned SPAC deals in 2021 that together intended to raise $2,800,000,000.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL4/30/2021Space industry in midst of transformation following record private and public investments

Spire Global will receive about $475,000,000 in cash from its merger with NavSight to accelerate data-gathering and analysis across maritime, aviation, weather, climate, and other markets.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/1/2021Spire Global joins rush to public markets with $1.6 billion SPAC deal

NOAA’s first delivery order directed GeoOptics and Spire Global each to provide 500 daily radio occultation soundings for 30 days.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/19/2021NOAA expands purchase of commercial radio occultation data for weather models

Spire Global plans to use the 20,000,000 EUR to continue development of a satellite constellation that provides weather and tracking data and to develop new software applications.

NARRATIVE PLAN12/8/2020Spire raises funding from European Investment Bank

Spire Global provided free radio occultation data earlier in 2020 to ECMWF, the United Kingdom’s Met Office, and the U.S. Air Force to help offset a loss of aircraft-derived data.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL8/14/2020Weather models improve with COSMIC-2 and Spire Global data

Spire plans to launch additional satellites later in 2020 to complete the AirSafe rollout.

NARRATIVE GROWTH10/16/2019Spire to expand fleet and offer AirSafe API for global aircraft tracking
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