Transcelestial develops shoebox-sized CENTAURI devices that send lasers to one another to form a fiber-like wireless network. The system is designed to avoid underground cables and radio-frequency licensing issues, enabling a lower cost per bit. CENTAURI units have been deployed in South Asian and Southeast Asian markets, and the company demonstrated its technology delivering 5G connectivity at the University of Technology Sydney. Transcelestial plans regional expansion across Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States, and is working under stealth with a few ISPs and a major enterprise cloud and data center company on the U.S. West Coast. The startup is also developing a low-earth-orbit constellation to deploy its wireless fiber optics from orbit. Its Terabit Factory has capacity to manufacture up to 2,400 CENTAURI devices annually, and recent funding will be used in part to harden that facility against supply-chain uncertainties.

Total raised

$10M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Feb 2023