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Spacebackend raises €1.8 million to cut aerospace hardware integration from years to days
The Luxembourg-headquartered deep-tech startup is building an engineering platform that interprets complex hardware interface documentation and generates a deterministic, flight-ready driver code for satellites and space systems. The €1.8 million pre-seed round included investment from Bynd Venture Capital, Athos Capital and Draper B1, alongside strategic non-dilutive funding from the Luxembourg Space Agency through the national LuxIMPULSE programme.
Luxembourg, 21 April 2026 — Spacebackend, a Luxembourg-headquartered deep-tech startup focused on modernising engineering processes in the aerospace industry, today announces the closing of a €1.8 million pre-seed funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over €2.2 million. The round included participation from Bynd Venture Capital, Athos Capital and Draper B1, complemented by strategic non-dilutive funding from the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) through the national LuxIMPULSE programme, as well as a strategic angel investor.
Founded in 2024, Spacebackend is headquartered in Luxembourg with a subsidiary in Spain, and concentrates all of its research and development activity in the Grand Duchy. The company has also recently completed Phase 2 of ESRIC's Startup Support Programme, further consolidating its position within Luxembourg's deep-tech and space resources ecosystem.
"Our ambition is to make Spacebackend a platform that enables the development of the next generation of aerospace systems. With the growing demand to launch more hardware and infrastructure into space, our mission is to reduce integration efforts from years to days. By enabling aerospace teams to streamline the entire hardware integration, testing and validation process into a single platform, we ensure faster and manufacturer-agnostic integration timelines for any project and mission," says Dmitry Goldenberg, Founder and CEO of Spacebackend.
Spacebackend's engineering platform, Lynapse ™, addresses the structural challenge of integrating hardware and software in mission-critical systems, where the fragmentation, manual nature and slowness of these processes continue to hinder the scalability and reliability of space missions. Lynapse ™ applies AI where it adds the most value, reading and interpreting Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and datasheets to automatically surface ambiguities and missing information that engineering teams would otherwise spend weeks resolving by hand. From the engineer-approved interface model, the platform then produces deterministic, flight-ready, platform-agnostic source code, together with simulation environments to test and validate both generated and existing software, long before physical hardware is available.
Beyond its current product, Spacebackend's long-term vision extends from accelerating integration to enabling autonomous interoperability across multi-vendor aerospace assets (from satellites and spacecraft to landers, rovers and in-situ resource utilisation assets) a direction aligned with Luxembourg's national space strategy.
"Solving hardware-software integration is the first step on a much longer road. Our vision is an ecosystem in which any mission-critical system (in orbit, on the lunar surface, or on Earth) can identify, connect, and service other systems without bespoke engineering each time. That ambition is deeply aligned with the Luxembourg Space Agency's strategy around activities in space, like in-orbit services, and the sustainable use of space resources. We see Spacebackend as a long-term actor in this ecosystem, and we envision Lynapse and the products that will follow it becoming part of the core infrastructure of the European space industry," says Yoav Landsman, Co-founder and COO of Spacebackend.
"This technology is addressing a structural problem in the aerospace industry by reducing complexity and dramatically increasing the efficiency of equipment integration processes in satellites. We believe Spacebackend has the potential to become an essential tool for the next generation of mission-critical systems, and it is exactly the kind of investment that Bynd wants to continue supporting," says Francisco Ferreira Pinto, Partner at Bynd Venture Capital.
“We decided to invest in Spacebackend because its AI based technology, able to generate agnostic middleware and digital twins from technical documentation, has the potential to convert itself in a standard within a market that will grow exponentially in the next years”, says Jon Etxeberría, Principal de Draper B1.
In a context of fast growth in the space economy and increasing mission complexity, the funding will allow the company to strengthen its team in Luxembourg, accelerate market entry with European integrators and primes, and continue evolving Lynapse ™ ; With deeper ICD intelligence, broader hardware protocol coverage, and expanded simulation and validation capabilities for highly regulated and mission-critical environments.
"This round is a foundation for our further commercialization. We are committed to deepening our collaboration with the Luxembourg Space Agency and to building strong partnerships with commercial players in Luxembourg and across the European Union. Together, we can make European space infrastructure faster, more modular, and more resilient," adds Dmitry Goldenberg.
About Spacebackend
Spacebackend is a Luxembourg-headquartered deep-tech startup dedicated to transforming the way aerospace systems are integrated, tested and validated. Its engineering platform, Lynapse, uses AI to interpret complex interface documentation and surface ambiguities early, and generates deterministic, flight-ready source code together with simulation-based validation environments, drastically reducing the time and complexity of hardware integration and ensuring greater reliability, efficiency and speed of execution. Spacebackend concentrates its R&D activity in Luxembourg and operates a subsidiary in Spain. The company is supported by the Luxembourg Space Agency through the LuxIMPULSE programme and has completed Phase 2 of ESRIC's Startup Support Programme.
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