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Google plans to invest $15 billion over the next five years to establish a gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

NARRATIVE GROWTH10/14/2025Google to invest $15 bn in India, build largest AI hub outside US

AST SpaceMobile raised $155,000,000 from Google, AT&T, and Vodafone in January ahead of plans to deploy its first commercial low Earth orbit satellites early in 2024 for a direct-to-smartphone service.

NARRATIVE GROWTH3/14/2024FCC approves direct-to-smartphone regulatory framework

Most of the strategic investment announced 2025-01-18, totaling $110 million, is in the form of a debt instrument that pays interest to Google, AT&T, and Vodafone and could later be converted into shares in AST SpaceMobile.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/19/2024Google and AT&T join $155 million AST SpaceMobile investment

One of the largest telecommunications providers processed 90 billion spatial object records using Kinetica to turn Google-provided lat/longs into atomic routes for coverage planning and ROI projections for network and retail build-out.

NARRATIVE GENERAL12/7/2023Kinetica Unveils First SQL-GPT for Telecom

Pixxel raised $36,000,000 in a Series B funding round that included new investor Google and existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, growX, Sparta, and Athera.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL6/4/2023Pixxel’s $36 Million in Series B funding will advance hyperspectral satellite constellation and data platform

Pixxel raised $36,000,000 in a Series B funding round led by Google on 2023-06-01.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL6/2/2023Google leads $36 million funding round for Pixxel

Pixxel raised $36,000,000 in a Series B funding round that included new investor Google and existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, GrowX, Sparta, and Athera.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL6/2/2023Pixxel Raises $36 Million Funding From Google and Others

In 2014, Google paid an estimated $500,000,000 to acquire Skybox Imaging.

ORG RELATIONSHIP6/2/2023Google leads $36 million funding round for Pixxel

Early customers Tomorrow.io and Google are partnering with Muon Space to develop new mission-critical geophysical datasets.

NARRATIVE PLAN10/6/2021Seed Financing Rewards Muon Space with Million$$

Google, an Alphabet Inc. unit, will launch the eco-friendly routing feature later 2021 in the United States and will eventually roll it out to other countries.

NARRATIVE PLAN4/1/2021Google’s Maps to help drivers find ‘eco-friendly’ routes

SpaceX raised $1,000,000,000 in early 2015 in a round led by Google and Fidelity.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL2/24/2021SpaceX raises $850 million in latest round

Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for a reported $500,000,000.

ORG RELATIONSHIP3/6/2020Why the smallsat bubble may deflate, but not burst

Google acquired Skybox Imaging in 2014 for an estimated $500,000,000 and renamed it Terra Bella.

ORG RELATIONSHIP7/18/2019Investors don’t see Virgin Galactic deal as model for space industry

SpaceIL originally developed the Beresheet lander as a one-off project to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize and funded most of the $100,000,000 cost from philanthropic sources.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/25/2019SpaceIL lunar lander makes first post-launch maneuvers