Indian rocket startup Skyroot raises $60 million in private investment capital
Even as it prepares for the first orbital launch attempt of its Vikram-1 rocket, the Indian rocket startup Skyroot has raised $60 million in private investment capital in a recent funding round, bringing the total raised by the company to $160 million.
The startup announced it had raised $60 million at a valuation of $1.1 billion prior to the funding. The round was co-led by early Google investor Ram Shriram’s venture capital firm, Sherpalo Ventures, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC. New investors in the round include funds managed by BlackRock, Playbook Partners, Shanghvi Family Office, and others. Existing investors that also participated in the round include the founders of Greenko Group and Arkam Ventures.
The company hopes to launch Vikram-1 in about two months, though no specific launch window has been announced. The rocket is presently being shipped to India’s Sriharikota spaceport.
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The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Even as it prepares for the first orbital launch attempt of its Vikram-1 rocket, the Indian rocket startup Skyroot has raised $60 million in private investment capital in a recent funding round, bringing the total raised by the company to $160 million.
The startup announced it had raised $60 million at a valuation of $1.1 billion prior to the funding. The round was co-led by early Google investor Ram Shriram’s venture capital firm, Sherpalo Ventures, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC. New investors in the round include funds managed by BlackRock, Playbook Partners, Shanghvi Family Office, and others. Existing investors that also participated in the round include the founders of Greenko Group and Arkam Ventures.
The company hopes to launch Vikram-1 in about two months, though no specific launch window has been announced. The rocket is presently being shipped to India’s Sriharikota spaceport.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News