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Google Led Pixxel Fund Raising Round To Close At $36 Million

Satellite-imaging to identify spectrum of mineral deposits & crops productivity.

Emeka Eni by Emeka Eni
June 2, 2023
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Google is keen on promoting the Pixel initiative they launched as a smartphone that preaches about intense high-definition imaging which impacted the search giant to recognize Pixxel.
start-up company that has done more intriguing innovation to depict image clarity. Pixxel records its first significant funding round that acquired $36 million led by Google to promote natives or inclined tech partisans hailing from India.

Pixxel funding round is an impact of Bengaluru’s government policy portfolio on entity privatization. The million dollars Pixxel, a satellite-image start-up is recorded as its first major investment deal to put Bengaluru-based companies on the map. The satellite-image start-up company has acquired another investment to promote its existence that could lead to shooting a satellite into space.

The fresh capital will accelerate Pixxel’s mission to build and deploy the world’s highest-resolution hyperspectral satellite constellation, including:

  1. Launching six satellites in 2024 and 18 more by 2025 to provide global, sub-meter-scale hyperspectral imagery.

  2. Scaling “Aurora”, Pixxel’s AI-powered analytics platform, to deliver turnkey environmental and climate insights—such as emissions monitoring, water-pollution detection, and agricultural-health assessments—at planetary scale.

It is a no-brainer that Google’s generous offerings to the satellite-imaging start-up company denote that Pixxel will be connected to the search giant’s satellite to map out geographical locations with optimal mineral deposits. Since the 2019 Pixxel debut as a start-up satellite media with the constellation of satellites that are developed to identify mineral deposits by analyzing the spectral signature of an image.

 

Pixxel Founder and CEO Awais Ahmed said that the technology he developed/created is not restrained to mapping out mineral deposits but to also identify the productivity of crops by using its network of satellite constellations to picture spectral signatures. However, the satellite-imaging start-up company did not disclose its current net value per the additional $36 million Pixxel recently bagged which is lesser than the previous $71 million funding led by Accenture.

“We work with satellite data and Google does a lot of work around that with agriculture and environment. They also have Google Earth … so a combination of that led to them seeing a benefit.” Ahmed said his satellite-imaging start-up company will be the “most valued space tech company in India after this investment”

The satellite image start-up company depends on satellite data and Google does a lot of work around data analytics and satellite constellations to monitor climate impact on agriculture and the environment, “so therefore we will be leading innovation on climate data analytics,” Ahmed said. Still, the government-private sector policy portfolio did not restrain Pixxel from raising funds to bolster its developmental growth in the satellite business.

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