Bengaluru-based space-tech startup QOSMIC has raised $3.33 million in a seed funding round led by Accel and Prosus. The funding will support product deployment, manufacturing, testing and team expansion as QOSMIC prepares for in-orbit trials and commercial rollouts. QOSMIC, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech company building optical communications infrastructure for space, raised a $3.33 million seed funding round led by Accel and Prosus, with South Park Commons and ARTPARK among the first institutional investors, alongside angel investor Manish Jain. The funding accelerates QOSMIC's work to build the data layer of the space economy, the network that carries information between satellites, orbital data centres, and the ground network. Founded in 2025 by Shreyaans Jain, Rohit Ramakrishnan, and Aloke Kumar, QOSMIC is building laser-based communication systems that enable satellites to transmit significantly larger volumes of data than conventional radio-frequency systems. The company develops both optical ground stations on Earth and optical communication terminals for satellites, creating a complete end-to-end optical communications stack. As the number of satellites in orbit continues to grow, the industry's ability to move data back to Earth is becoming the critical bottleneck. The satellites of the future are being served by the network infrastructure of the past. A single Earth-observation satellite can image an entire country in one pass, then delete most of it, because the radio link is too narrow to send it down before the next orbit. Modern spacecraft generate terabytes a day, yet still rely on radio-frequency links constrained by spectrum, congestion, and short transmission windows The emerging orbital economy will demand terabit-scale connectivity between spacecraft, orbital data centres, and Earth, a scale radio frequency systems cannot reach. QOSMIC addresses this challenge by replacing traditional radio links with laser-based optical communications that can move data between orbit and Earth at significantly higher speeds and capacities. In less than a year since inception, the company has field-validated its complete optical communication stack over a 10-kilometre terrestrial link at Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL6), demonstrating the full chain of pointing, acquisition, tracking, and high-speed data transfer outside a laboratory environment. QOSMIC is now preparing for in-orbit testing and its first commercial deployments. The newly raised capital will be used to deliver operational optical ground stations and satellite terminals to international customers, scale integration, testing and manufacturing capabilities, and expand the company's engineering team across optical, mechanical, and electronics disciplines. QOSMIC's founding story mirrors a larger shift in where frontier technology gets built. All three founders left careers abroad and chose India. Shreyaans Jain gave up a PhD in quantum computing in the United States to return to
