{"id":470831,"date":"2026-05-06T06:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470831\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:53:20","slug":"finnish-satellite-startup-iceye-in-talks-to-raise-e250-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470831\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Satellite Startup Iceye in Talks to Raise \u20ac250 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1341673D:FH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Iceye<\/a>, the Finnish satellite startup tapping into increased defense spending in Europe, is in talks to raise \u20ac250 million ($293 million) in a round that may nearly double its previous valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A new fundraising round could value Iceye at roughly \u20ac5 billion or more, the people said. Some people touted the prospect of a significantly higher figure, suggesting an unusually wide range of possibilities given the industry\u2019s fast growth. The terms of the fundraising round haven\u2019t been finalized and may still change, they said. A representative for the company declined to comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iceye, the Finnish satellite startup tapping into increased defense spending in Europe, is in talks to raise \u20ac250&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[12008,6449,18,1015,2427,3428,19,17,206564,550,133,451,238,82,551,9495],"class_list":["post-470831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-defense-spending","tag-eire","tag-europe","tag-finland","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rafal-modrzewski","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-space","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-ukraine","tag-valuation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116526317903447550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}