{
  "id": 15726,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/k2-space-500-million-series-d-6-8-billion-large-satellites",
  "title": "Everyone else is shrinking satellites. K2 raised $500m to build giant ones, and put AI in orbit.",
  "summary": "Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed it $500 million to keep going bigger. K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, with Alphabet’s CapitalG, Lightspeed and […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Cristian Dina",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": "google",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-31T15:01:24.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-03T05:10:47.622Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15726",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/k2-space-500-million-series-d-6-8-billion-large-satellites",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}