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Satellize is named to Via Satellite's annual list of the most consequential companies in the global satellite industry — recognising the sovereign-program thesis and the company's role in standing up national space capability for emerging space nations.
Satellize is featured in Via Satellite's annual smallsat startups-to-watch list, alongside the global cohort of companies redefining how nano- and microsatellite programs get built and operated.
Satellize appears in Via Satellite's 2025 hot-companies list — recognising the shift from one-off cubesat launches to full-stack national space programs as the company's defining bet.
After six years building India's first private satellite heritage under the Exseed Space name, the company rebrands to Satellize to reflect the mature mission: full-stack sovereign space programs for allied nations.
ISRO's PSLV-C45 lifts EMISAT plus 28 international rideshare satellites from Sriharikota — among them ExseedSat-2 / AISAT, the first private satellite launched from Indian soil, built by Exseed Space for AMSAT India.
Exseed Space (now Satellize) closes a $316K angel round led by Azam Khan, with participation from Asiya Khan, Aditya Suklikar, Rajendra Bodapatti, Aneesh Rajan Jain and Sumukh Shastri — early capital behind India's private satellite programme.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 SSO-A mission carries 64 spacecraft to a 600 km Sun-synchronous orbit — among them ExseedSat-1, the first satellite designed, built and operated by a private Indian company. The 1U cubesat sends a Morse-code “V for Victory” from orbit.
The Print covers the launch of ExseedSat-1: an eight-person team in Mumbai builds a one-kilogram cubesat in 18 months and puts it in orbit aboard Falcon 9 — the first time a private Indian organisation has flown a satellite.
YourStory profiles the Exseed Space founders the day Falcon 9 lifts ExseedSat-1: a Mumbai company that proved a working spacecraft could be built outside ISRO, in months rather than years, on a startup budget.
Inc42 reports the launch and what it signals for India's space-startup ecosystem: private satellite work is now commercially viable in the country, and the gate Exseed has just walked through is open for the next cohort.
Deccan Herald covers the launch from a Hyderabad lens — co-founder Ashhar Farhan's amateur-radio engineering roots and the role of the city's HF Signals and AMSAT communities in getting an Indian-built spacecraft to orbit.
The Better India profiles the Exseed Space team and the four-month build cycle behind ExseedSat-1 — a one-kilogram CubeSat designed to support amateur-radio communication during natural disasters when terrestrial networks fail.
AMSAT-UK announces ExseedSat-1's payload: a multi-mode UHF/VHF NBFM amateur-radio transponder with CTCSS squelch, designed for the global ham community and built by Exseed Space and AMSAT India.
Mahesh Murthy, Ashhar Farhan and Kris Nair found Exseed Space Innovations Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai with a focus on assembly, integration, testing and operation of small satellites — the company that would become Satellize.
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