Why are you using software from the 90s to design and launch a hundred million dollar mission? That is the question being asked by many new space companies, and Epsilon3 is looking to help them bring their operations out of spreadsheets and Word docs and into a modern and collaborative work platform.
We covered Epsilon3 when they made their debut last year, and since then the company has been hard at work bringing its OS for launch ops from prototype to product, and signing on customers. It has followed that pre-seed round with a seed.
Laura Crabtree, co-founder and CEO of Epsilon3 said that some people were hesitant to jump on a new platform.
Part of the company's time was spent going through its own adaptation process.
I understand our customers because I'm from the industry, said Crabtree, formerly of SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. The process of transitioning from what we want to build to what our customers need was helped by YC.
Even though the platform was intended to be a modern way to run ongoing launch and satellite operations, it had other uses.
Max Mednik, the company's COO, said they were surprised by all the different use cases for the software. When their teams are growing and they are trying to hit some ambitious goals, using Word or Confluence doesn't cut it.
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You can get by, and some companies we help are getting by with a giant spreadsheet with links to stuff, or a giant folder on a shared drive. It's easy to make a mistake when you have access to all your past runs. You are going to have millions of copies of the same thing. You can lose a lot of time if something goes wrong.
The live data recorder for Epsilon3 is less ramshackle and more robust than other live data recorder's. Multiple operator sign-off is a must in industries where several people need to check and verify a data point.
Being user-friendly involves integrating other services and platforms. First Resonance is a software platform for space-related development. Since they fit in different parts of the process of building and launching assets it makes sense for them to be friends.
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We talked to First Resonance about passing data back and forth. We want to open up hooks so that we can integrate data from other tools.
A lot of people have been asking for more automation support, and other integrations, like Jira for tools and infrastructure, metrics and analysis.
Customers seem to be happy to pay for what they are getting already, even though there is a lot on the company's plate. The company has tripled its customers since last year. They listed a number of them, along with others that can't yet be mentioned publicly.
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He recalled that there was a lot of leveling up on the infrastructure side. We did our best. I think it did well.
It did more than okay, Max. I think it did well.
Nothing caught fire.
The focus is on expanding the product and team. The original 3-founder team has been replaced by 21 total, still small but well beyond the garage stage of a startup like this.
Stage Venture Partners and MaC Venture Capital were pre-seed investors in the seed round.
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