The new space economy is challenged by thousands of satellites, drones, and mobile assets that require seamless, high-speed communications despite movement, weather, and narrow beams that disrupt traditional point-to-point links.
Aalyria tackles these challenges with Spacetime, an AI platform for real-time dynamic routing, and Tightbeam, ultra-fast optical laser terminals that deliver secure, flexible connectivity across land, sea, air, and space in unified networks.
Today, Aalyria just closed a $100M Series B led by Battery Ventures and J2 Ventures, pushing their valuation to $1.3B and setting the stage for global rollout.
Building resilient, high-speed networks that actually work on the move
Aalyria’s story starts in 2021, with CEO Chris Taylor (ex-Google networking), CTO Brian Barritt (Google X aerospace), and a team spun out from Google and Lawrence Livermore National Lab after a decade of R&D.
They founded Aalyria to build the missing “control plane” for space, like the internet’s backbone, to manage complex systems at scale for commercial and defence missions. Their goal is to become the essential digital link connecting satellites, aircraft, ships, and ground assets into smart, reliable systems.
Aalyria’s system combines Tightbeam laser terminals, which provide high-capacity, secure atmospheric links, with Spacetime software that uses AI to optimise routing, including dynamic beam steering, spectrum management, link prediction, and integration across multiple domains.
Their key strengths include proven deployments like Telesat Lightspeed LEO, full vertical integration from hardware to software, real-time adaptability unlike static networks, and support for LEO, MEO, GEO, and hybrid terrestrial-space systems.
Unlike Kuiper (satellites, less orchestration), OneWeb and Eutelsat (broadband, but still point-to-point), or Palantir (defence analytics, not comms hardware), Aalyria is building the connective tissue for the whole ecosystem.
So, what’s next?
Aalyria plans to scale Spacetime and Tightbeam to support tens of thousands of satellites and expand pilot projects with Telesat, NASA, Airbus, ESA, and the U.S. military into full commercial and defence contracts.
In the near term, they aim to improve LEO constellation resiliency, add quantum-secure integrations, and enhance space domain awareness. Long term, they want to become essential infrastructure for the rapidly growing space economy, routing around failures with mission-priority optimisation.
