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In this column I am going to take a slightly different viewpoint than my last two. In the last two columns I provide what I think is sound advice to founders of small businesses on how to deal with customers. In the last column I specifically singled out government customers.

If Maritime Launch Services is going to keep to its revised development plan it will need to secure funding for the first phase of that plan. To that end, the company is offering a private placement of unsecured convertible debentures with a minimum gross proceeds of $2 million. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, …

New telemetry management company Sift, fresh from a USD $7.5 million fundraising round and an exit from stealth, is looking to leverage their founders' SpaceX experiences to help manage and store the vast quantities of data generated by space companies, and by many other hardware-focused companies with large quantities of machine-generated data. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space …

This is another of my columns under the general heading of “advice to founders.” It’s kind of an extension of the last one, but this time dealing with how to deal with the government.

This is one of what I hope will be a series of columns under the general heading of “Advice to Founders.” These are topics that I find I come back to often in my conversations with founders of small businesses and which I think are things that anyone who has, or is thinking about, founding a business should know.

In my work with companies in the space sector I am increasingly seeing what I think is a serious issue that is impairing the growth of companies that seem to have all the factors in place to be successful.

Maritime Launch Services announced significant funding from the province of Nova Scotia, just two months after its first spaceport launch. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, policy, technology and more. Support independent journalism. SUBSCRIBE TODAY

Montreal-based GHGSat just finished another big funding round.

Mission Control, a startup that is based in Ottawa, has raised $3.25 million in a seed round led by a Toronto Company. Mission Control officials said that the seed round of equity financing was led by GreenSky Ventures. The company plans to use the funding, principally, for two major ventures. The first is to continue work on its Spacefarer platform, which manages space-based robotics and …

Halifax-based RF technology company Aethera Technologies Ltd. has announced that they’ve made an “undisclosed minority equity investment” in Houston’s Ad Astra Rocket Company. The two companies have a long-standing relationship and contextualizes Ad Astra’s other recent announcement that they’ve received two NASA contracts for development of their VASIMR engine. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, business, …