Sahith Reddy Madara (🌍, 🛰️ ,💸)

Funding Announcement: @catalyxspace has raised a $5.4M seed round to build the complete back-end infrastructure for space — enabling both upmass and downmass for the next era of orbital logistics. This brings our total funding to $7.1 million. Exactly one year ago, my friend @heysaqh and I left everything behind in India and arrived at LAX, hoping to build our new space company in the U.S. Meanwhile, our friends @clinton_atspace and @ChandKeerthan focused on developing spacecraft hardware back home in India. We joined the @techstars space accelerator and later @hf0 , raising a $1.7M pre-seed round in December 2024 from HF0 and @fdotinc, before moving to San Francisco — the city I love most. The entire team relocated to SF in January for HF0. Since then, we’ve 5X’d our revenue, built a re-entry capsule, launched our first spacecraft, and completed our drop and landing tests. We’ve grown to a 20-person team and begun constructing a new spacecraft manufacturing facility in India. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $5.4M seed round, led by @outlandervc , with participation from @ArkaVentureLabs, Lex Reddy, KDX, @scaletogether, Higher Life Ventures, @NiveshaVentures, Pranatech, Bria, @hf0 and @Techstars. Thanks to the Almighty for everything and everyone who has believed in us. This round will help us demonstrate our next-generation re-entry and landing technology, scale our GTM, and execute upcoming missions. Multiple missions are already lined up — each bringing us closer to making orbital logistics as seamless as air cargo. We’re not just launching satellites — we’re building the operating system for space logistics. Time to get back to building, testing, and launching. The future of space isn’t one-way. Upmass. Downmass. Infinite possibilities.