Trusted Space has received a strategic growth investment from Washington Harbour Partners, a move aimed at accelerating the company’s expansion and strengthening its role in architecting software-driven solutions across the space domain. The investment positions Trusted Space to scale its capabilities as demand increases for resilient, autonomous, and real-time space operations supporting national security missions.
Founded in 2019, Trusted Space provides complete lifecycle space mission engineering solutions that support secure, end-to-end space operations across battle management, command and control, autonomous operations, and battlespace awareness. The company’s software platforms are designed to enable real-time command and control in increasingly complex environments that include proliferated satellite constellations and multi-domain operations spanning ground systems through orbit.
Washington Harbour Partners’ investment will enable Trusted Space to deepen its focus on translating research and development into operational software systems. The company plans to expand its portfolio of AI- and machine learning-enabled solutions that support space domain awareness, mission autonomy, advanced data processing, and software-defined operations. These capabilities are increasingly viewed as foundational to modern space architectures as space becomes a critical operational domain.
Trusted Space’s leadership team emphasized that the partnership brings more than capital, citing Washington Harbour’s domain expertise, operational experience, and strategic relationships across national security, defense, and advanced technology sectors. The company will continue to be led by its founders, who remain significant shareholders following the transaction.
Washington Harbour Partners described Trusted Space as a mission-driven organization with a strong culture and deep customer trust, positioning it as a platform investment for software-defined technologies and intellectual property-enabled services across the next generation of space systems. The firm noted that Trusted Space’s software-first approach and focus on autonomy align with broader shifts underway across the defense and intelligence landscape.
The transaction reflects Washington Harbour’s broader investment strategy focused on high-growth companies operating at the intersection of national security, defense technologies, cybersecurity, enterprise software, and technology-enabled services. Legal and financial advisors supported both parties in completing the investment.
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“Our partnership with Washington Harbour will accelerate Trusted Space’s mission of ushering in a new paradigm for U.S. space superiority. Rapidly evolving advanced technologies are transforming space into a dynamic operational theater. Washington Harbour’s deep knowledge of our industry, shared vision, and expansive strategic relationships all give our team great confidence and excitement in continuing to serve our customers and our country.”
Bob MacMillan, Co-Founder and President, Trusted Space
“With a commitment to mission, Washington Harbour invests behind the urgent national security needs facing our nation, and we are proud to join Bob, Tom, Tim, and the exceptional team at Trusted Space as they enter the next chapter of their journey. Their defining quality is a mission-first ethos, which, combined with cutting-edge products, has made them an indispensable partner across the space domain. They have cultivated a powerful culture and deep, foundational trust with their customers, and we take great responsibility to steward that trust and help accelerate their vital work.”
Mina Faltas, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Washington Harbour Partners
“This partnership will further enable us to build innovative solutions across increasingly autonomous and self-aware spacecraft platforms and constellations, with greater agility, resilience, quality and affordability, while enabling the vision of collaborative multi-platform and multi-domain operations. Mission autonomy coupled with advanced data processing and human-machine cooperation are some of the many requirements needed across a modern space architecture that Trusted Space is enabling, addressing exponentially complex and compressed mission timelines,”
Tom Kubancik, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Trusted Space
“We have great respect and admiration for the culture that Trusted Space has built and their relentless commitment as the trusted partner to their deep customer relationships. A once-in-a-generation shift is underway in the space domain and Washington Harbour is investing in the next generation of companies across a multi-domain battlespace – market leaders ushering in whole new eras of technological use cases. We are incredibly excited to continue to support Trusted Space’s vital role at the heart of the next generation of dynamic software-defined space architectures, delivering autonomy across the entire mission life cycle.”
Patrick Foley, Principal, Washington Harbour Partners
