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Welsh Startup Space Forge Bags the Largest Series A round ever among UK's Space Startups

  • May 15, 2025
  • 1 min read


Space Forge, co-founded by Joshua Western(CEO) & Andrew Bacon(CTO), the company known for building space factories for super materials has raised $30 Million to further it's mission to develop and launch ForgeStar-2, a reusable commercial in-orbit manufacturing satellite. This round was lead by Nato Innovation Fund and strategic backing by World Fund, Nssif, & British Business Bank.

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