Reconfigure.io joins the first space camp accelerator

Seraphim capital are the first venture focussed entirely on financing companies operating in the spacetech ecosystem. Seraphim are growing companies who generate, apply and enhance the data gathered and driven by satellite and drone technology. Their aim is to “help the best spacetech startups secure funding, achieve scale, and foster close working relationships with industry leaders.”

So why is this happening now? The cost of launching a satellite has dropped dramatically in recent years, to the point where startups are gravitating towards spacetech with terrestrial and space-based solutions . The number of businesses built around harnessing satellite and drone data, using their clear wide-reaching view of earth, has exploded. Space is a $350 billion industry encompassing many applications we rely on in our everyday lives, from navigating our way home (Uber, Citymapper) to ordering takeout (Deliveroo), to societal endeavours, such as urban planning, farming and crop management.

The opportunities in spacetech are huge, driven by the tech — satellites, drones — and the data they gather. On the one side the raw data is there to be used, value can be extracted, but on the flip side the infrastructure needs to be put in place for business to be able to extract exactly what they need from vast data sets, while ensuring security, and keeping power consumption and physical footprint to a minimum — critical when you’re in space!

Computer server technology can’t keep up with the demands of worldwide exponential data growth. In stark contrast, modern CPU improvements are slowing year on year. We need to shift our thinking. A new order of computing, along with new tools for software developers are required to face these changes head on.

Our platform provides a transformative service to spacetech customers. We allow worth to be extracted from data so it can be used as intended, with unbeatably low latency.

Our service enables the deployment of applications written in Google’s Go language to FPGA server instances on premises, or in the cloud piggybacking on AWS F1 instances. The application potential for FPGAs in the space sector is wide, due to increased performance and low latency for high-speed data analytics, achieved through creating highly parallel designs, but also, importantly, FPGAs offer reduced power consumption and space requirements when compared to modern CPU-based systems.

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