He noted an exponential increase private equity investment in satellites and identified Kacific as one of the top 7 companies to attract investor interest: “Venture investment into satellite companies has been on a rocket-like trajectory since 2012, following a long fallow period … since  the last “major” satellite boom peaked in 2006”

He sees satellite companies clustered around three different themes: broadband internet delivery, hardware development and satellite-enabled services. and says that, in reality, modern satellite applications are more than the story of cheap electronics. Satellites (and the applications enabled by them) sit at the intersection of a number of cutting-edge technologies: machine-taught computer vision systems, mobile communications, high-bandwidth applications like live-streaming video, better and smaller sensors, rocketry and robotics.

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