{"id":1043472,"date":"2026-10-15T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043472"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:17:01","slug":"space-startups-secure-record-20-8-billion-funding-as-infrastructure-bets-surge-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/space-startups-secure-record-20-8-billion-funding-as-infrastructure-bets-surge-report-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Space startups secure record $20.8 billion funding as infrastructure bets surge, report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space startups attracted a record $20.8 billion in funding in the third quarter, as investors poured money into launch providers, manufacturing and other infrastructure ventures, according to a report by global investment firm Seraphim. <\/p>\n<p>The figure was nearly triple the $7.4 billion invested in the second quarter and more than double the prior peak. Excluding Blue Origin&#8217;s $10 billion financing, investment was still at an all-time high of $10.8 billion, underscoring growing demand across the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space startups attracted a record $20.8 billion in funding in the third quarter, as investors poured money into launch providers, manufacturing and other infrastructure ventures, according to a report by global investment firm Seraphim. The figure was nearly triple the $7.4 billion invested in the second quarter and more than double the prior peak. Excluding Blue Origin&#8217;s $10 billion financing, investment was still at an all-time high of $10.8 billion, underscoring growing demand across the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043494,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043472\/revisions\/1043494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}