Press · March 2026 · Via Satellite
Satellize is named to Via Satellite's annual list of the most consequential companies in the global satellite industry — recognising the sovereign-program thesis and the company's role in standing up national space capability for emerging space nations.
Press · August 2025 · Via Satellite
Satellize is featured in Via Satellite's annual smallsat startups-to-watch list, alongside the global cohort of companies redefining how nano- and microsatellite programs get built and operated.
Press · March 2025 · Via Satellite
Satellize appears in Via Satellite's 2025 hot-companies list — recognising the shift from one-off cubesat launches to full-stack national space programs as the company's defining bet.
Company · 2024 · Wikipedia · Satellize
After six years building India's first private satellite heritage under the Exseed Space name, the company rebrands to Satellize to reflect the mature mission: full-stack sovereign space programs for allied nations.
Mission · April 2019 · SpaceWatch.Global
ISRO's PSLV-C45 lifts EMISAT plus 28 international rideshare satellites from Sriharikota — among them ExseedSat-2 / AISAT, the first private satellite launched from Indian soil, built by Exseed Space for AMSAT India.
Company · April 2019 · Tracxn
Exseed Space (now Satellize) closes a $316K angel round led by Azam Khan, with participation from Asiya Khan, Aditya Suklikar, Rajendra Bodapatti, Aneesh Rajan Jain and Sumukh Shastri — early capital behind India's private satellite programme.
Mission · December 2018 · SpaceDaily
SpaceX's Falcon 9 SSO-A mission carries 64 spacecraft to a 600 km Sun-synchronous orbit — among them ExseedSat-1, the first satellite designed, built and operated by a private Indian company. The 1U cubesat sends a Morse-code "V for Victory" from orbit.
Press · December 2018 · The Print
The Print covers the launch of ExseedSat-1: an eight-person team in Mumbai builds a one-kilogram cubesat in 18 months and puts it in orbit aboard Falcon 9 — the first time a private Indian organisation has flown a satellite.
Press · December 2018 · YourStory
YourStory profiles the Exseed Space founders the day Falcon 9 lifts ExseedSat-1: a Mumbai company that proved a working spacecraft could be built outside ISRO, in months rather than years, on a startup budget.
Press · December 2018 · Inc42
Inc42 reports the launch and what it signals for India's space-startup ecosystem: private satellite work is now commercially viable in the country, and the gate Exseed has just walked through is open for the next cohort.
Press · December 2018 · Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald covers the launch from a Hyderabad lens — co-founder Ashhar Farhan's amateur-radio engineering roots and the role of the city's HF Signals and AMSAT communities in getting an Indian-built spacecraft to orbit.
Press · December 2018 · The Better India
The Better India profiles the Exseed Space team and the four-month build cycle behind ExseedSat-1 — a one-kilogram CubeSat designed to support amateur-radio communication during natural disasters when terrestrial networks fail.
Press · September 2018 · AMSAT-UK
AMSAT-UK announces ExseedSat-1's payload: a multi-mode UHF/VHF NBFM amateur-radio transponder with CTCSS squelch, designed for the global ham community and built by Exseed Space and AMSAT India.
Company · 2017 · Wikipedia · Satellize
Mahesh Murthy, Ashhar Farhan and Kris Nair found Exseed Space Innovations Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai with a focus on assembly, integration, testing and operation of small satellites — the company that would become Satellize.