Europe’s best-funded rocket startup just raised €270M, and now Isar Aerospace has to actually reach orbit
Europe has the ambition to reach space on its own. What it lacks is rockets that work. Isar Aerospace has just raised €270mn to fix the first problem, and in less than a week it gets another chance to fix the second.
The Munich startup, one of Europe’s best-funded space companies, closed a €270mn Series D with new investors Island Green Capital and Molten Ventures joining existing backers including HV Capital, Lakestar, UVC Partners, and KfW Capital.
The round takes Isar’s total funding to roughly €870mn, a sign of how much investor money is flowing into space. The cash will scale production of its Spectrum rocket and expand its launch operations abroad.
The timing reflects a continent in a hurry. Europe carried out fewer than 10 orbital launches in 2025, against more than 190 in the US, and has leaned heavily on foreign providers, chiefly Elon Musk’s SpaceX,...
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