Spacemanic
Valuation
Privately held; primarily contract-revenue-funded plus ESA programmes. No major venture round publicly disclosed
Employees
~23 (per third-party aggregators)
Current Status
One of Central Europe's most prolific CubeSat mission integrators. As of Apr 2026 Spacemanic has flown six Slovak satellites plus customer satellites for Croatia and Czech students. CEO Jakub Kapuš sits on ESA's NewSpace Advisory Board to the Director General. The company moved into a larger Bratislava headquarters in 2024 and is finalising the ESA-funded CORVUS scalable nanosatellite platform.
Future Outlook
Near-term plan is closing out the ESA Pioneer-funded CORVUS platform for commercial sale and flying the MARINA radiation-monitoring CubeSat, while leveraging Slovakia's 2022 ESA Associate Member status to pitch turnkey nanosatellite missions across Europe.
Key Products
Recent Milestones
Veronika 1U CubeSat (third Slovak satellite) launched, providing amateur-radio HAM services
Nov 2023
GRBBeta CubeSat — Slovakia's 4th and largest satellite — launched on Ariane 6 maiden flight for gamma-ray-burst detection
Jul 2024
CEO Jakub Kapuš joined ESA's NewSpace Advisory Board to the Director General
2024
Won the First European-Japanese Space Startup Competition 2024
Nov 2024
CroCube (Croatia's first satellite) and LASARsat launched on SpaceX Bandwagon-2 mission
Dec 2024
MARINA — 5th Slovak satellite, 1U CubeSat space-radiation monitor with ADVASPACE payload — announced and in build
2025