Location
Headquarters: El Segundo, California, United States, North America
Region: California
Country: US
Continent: North America
About
Varda Space Industries is a space manufacturing company focused on microgravity-enabled materials processing and orbital production. It operates an orbital manufacturing and reentry platform designed to process materials in zero-gravity and return results to Earth, enabling advanced life sciences and materials research. The company positions itself as building the infrastructure for space-based manufacturing and applications across government, biopharma, and microgravity research markets, with a global reach anchored in space and applied to Earth-based industries.
Varda Space Industries is a private American company focused on in-space manufacturing and microgravity-enabled materials processing. It operates an orbital platform to produce high-quality materials, such as small molecule crystals, and returns them to Earth for use in biopharmaceutical and life sciences research. The company serves government, biopharma, and research markets by providing space-b
Varda Space Industries, Inc.
2021
for_profit
active
Industries
Primary Industry: Business Services
Categories
Funding & Financials
Series C
143800000
1m-10m
private
Investors
Founders
Daniel Marshall
Delian Asparouhov
Will Bruey
Leadership
Technology Stack
Products
W-Series Spacecraft: A series of free-flying orbital production satellites with re-entry capability designed to manufacture materials in microgravity and return them to Earth.
Hypersonic Reentry Capsule: A modular capsule designed to reenter Earth's atmosphere at Mach 25+ to safely return materials and payloads from orbit for terrestrial analysis.
In-House Satellite Bus: A satellite platform developed by Varda to support orbital material processing and reentry missions with integrated heatshield and payload systems.
Orbital Pharmaceutical Processing Platform: Equipment aboard Varda's spacecraft that performs pharmaceutical synthesis and formulation in microgravity to create novel molecular structures.
Hypersonic Flight Test Services: Flight testing services using Varda's capsule to provide real-world hypersonic reentry environments for aerospace subsystem validation.
Funding rounds
Series Unknown · $1.93M · (2026-02-17)
Series C · $187M · (2025-07-10) · Lead: Natural Capital,Shrug Capital
Series C · (2024-12-19)