Bengaluru-based spacetech startup QOSMIC has raised $3.33 million in seed funding to construct laser-based communication infrastructure for area.

The spherical was led by Accel and Prosus, with participation from South Park Commons, ARTPARK and angel investor Manish Jain.

Based in 2025 by Shreyaans Jain, Rohit Ramakrishnan and Aloke Kumar, QOSMIC is creating optical communication programs designed to assist satellites ship bigger volumes of information to Earth than typical radio-frequency programs.

The startup plans to make use of the funding to ship operational optical floor stations and satellite tv for pc terminals to worldwide prospects, scale integration, testing and manufacturing, and develop its engineering groups throughout optics, mechanical programs and electronics.

It’s concentrating on a rising bottleneck within the area business: satellites are gathering extra information than current communication infrastructure can reliably ship again to Earth. QOSMIC stated the rise in satellite tv for pc exercise will place larger strain on present space-to-ground communication programs.

“A single Earth commentary satellite tv for pc can generate terabytes of information each day,” Shreyaans Jain, co-founder and CEO of QOSMIC, informed the Financial Occasions.

He stated typical radio hyperlinks had been constrained by restricted spectrum, congestion and quick transmission home windows, including that round 50-60% of satellite tv for pc information didn’t attain finish customers as a result of there was not sufficient bandwidth.

“If that information can not come again to Earth, it has no worth,” Jain stated.

Satellites generally talk with floor stations utilizing radio-frequency hyperlinks, together with S-band, X-band and Ka-band programs. QOSMIC is as an alternative creating optical, or laser-based, hyperlinks for space-to-ground communication.

It’s constructing optical floor stations on Earth and optical communication terminals for satellites, creating an end-to-end optical communications stack.

QOSMIC stated it had field-validated its full optical communication stack at Know-how Readiness Stage 6, demonstrating pointing, acquisition, monitoring and high-speed information switch over a 10-km terrestrial optical hyperlink exterior a laboratory setting. The startup is now getting ready for in-orbit testing.