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Apex designs and manufactures standardized satellite buses intended to shorten spacecraft build timelines from years to months.
ACTIVEApex builds productized, configurable satellite buses (the Aries, Nova and Comet lines) at its Factory One plant in Los Angeles, offering satellite delivery in weeks rather than years.
Apex builds productized, configurable satellite buses (the Aries, Nova and Comet lines) at its Factory One plant in Los Angeles, offering satellite delivery in weeks rather than years.
Provisional: the latest data refresh looked incomplete and was held, so these scores use inputs measured 2026-10-10.
Rank 76 of 156 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 62 and 95.
4 of 6 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 81% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-10 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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6 private rounds on record (1 with no stated amount, counted but not added). Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Standardized ESPA-class satellite bus enabling rapid spacecraft production.
Stage, milestones, announced next steps and slips, funding and filings, every fact sourced:
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Compiled Oct 12, 2026 from 9 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Latest sourced round
Equity round: amount undisclosed
Lead recorded as Glade Brook Capital Partners
Source: Payload Space
Announced Jun 5, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
6 rounds, $518.5M disclosed
1 with no amount disclosed
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Source: Payload Space
Latest round Jun 5, 2026
Also: PR Newswire, Payload, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechCrunch
Open roles
134 open roles
90 days ago: before our daily count began (Aug 13, 2026)
Roles on the company's own jobs board, read by our daily sync. Listings posted or paid for on SpaceNexus are not counted. Earlier daily counts include every listed role.
Source: Company jobs board (Ashby)
Counted Oct 11, 2026
Satellites owned or operated
4 in orbit of 4 launched
Latest: Flashpoint 1
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as owner or operator. "In orbit" is GCAT status O. Counted under GCAT organisation code APEX. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 7, 2026
Satellites built
5 payloads launched, 5 in orbit
Latest: Anduril-216
Payloads GCAT lists with this organisation as manufacturer. Counted under GCAT organisation code APEX. Catalogue updated Sep 24, 2026.
Source: GCAT satellite catalogue
Latest launch Jul 7, 2026
Recorded as lead of Equity round (Jun 5, 2026)
Payload Space, Jun 5, 2026
Recorded as lead of Series D (Sep 12, 2025)
PR Newswire, Sep 12, 2025
8VC
Took part in Series C (Apr 29, 2025)
Satellite data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0.
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 12). Apex: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/apex
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Apex: Company dossier." Data as of October 12, 2026. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/apex.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_apex_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Apex}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/apex}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/apex},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-12; each fact links its primary source}
}Recorded as lead of Series C (Apr 29, 2025)
Payload, Apr 29, 2025
Took part in Series C (Apr 29, 2025)
Payload, Apr 29, 2025
CRV
Co-led Series B (Jun 11, 2024)
TechCrunch, Jun 11, 2024
Co-led Series B (Jun 11, 2024)
TechCrunch, Jun 11, 2024
Co-led Series A (Jun 22, 2023)
TechCrunch, Jun 22, 2023
Co-led Series A (Jun 22, 2023)
TechCrunch, Jun 22, 2023