ROSWELL, N.M.--()--Sceye, a manufacturer of High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS), announced today that it reached the s...
Problem
The Big Space program from the 1960s are today's outdated models

- Product not direct to mobile, expensive receivers and fixed technology with no upgrades
- Competes with $1T Telco Industry
- $10B upfront capital needed
- 10 years to operational
- Slower to react to market and more complex to deploy, operate and integrate
Solution
High Altitude Platform Stations for stratospheric infrastructure
Sceye is building highly advanced, high-altitude platform stations. Robust, versatile and solar-powered, they operate in the stratosphere at 65,000 feet. From here, they can deliver super-fast internet connection directly to devices and high-resolution imagery of the Earth in real time.
Sceye's mission is to use this pioneering technology to improve people’s lives and protect our planet.

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What Sceye offers
- Sceye's HAPS form a network of stations in the stratosphere—at 65,000 ft (20 km)—capable of long endurance service
- Part of a new generation of high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), Sceye is the only known geostationary player
- Sceye can provide everyone access to high-speed mobile internet and broadcast services connecting large populations over vast areas
- Connects directly to users’ devices whether 2G/3G/4G/5G—high speed, low latency
- Can be deployed over city centres and rural communities in remote regions, finally connecting 4B people to the digital economy

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About Sceye
Sceye is a material science company leading a new generation of high-altitude platform stations, or HAPS. Its groundbreaking work will help transform lives.
Sceye’s success has been built on a meticulous iterative development and testing process combined with extensive flight experience, enabling the creation of the most advanced product in the HAPS sector.
Sceye's engineering team has a wealth of diverse expertise that combines the best of America’s Cup, aerospace and advanced academic research.
Sceye chose the form factor of an airship over balloons and fixed wing aircrafts as it allows for geostationary capability, while lifting and powering far more payload than any other platform.
Sceye is solar powered during the day and battery powered at night. Sceye doesn't rely on rocket fuel like satellites or single use plastics like balloons.
Working with its global partners, Sceye's mission is to connect and protect our planet from the stratosphere.

Product
Right format,
right materials
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Unique materials for stratospheric success
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Revolutionary aerospace fabric

- Metallic layer shields from ozone and UV degradation
- Inner layer ensures state-of-the-art gas retention
- Adhesive middle layers also provide gas retention
- Core layer provides load bearing for high pressure
- Stronger than nearest alternative, relative to weight
- UV and ozone resistant
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High energy density battery

- Lithium Sulphur battery at > 400 Wh/kg
- 400 Wh/kg is the threshold at which airplanes go electric
- Sceye has optimized the electrolyte chemistry to reduce the volume required to achieve stable reactions
- Pore size and volume are controlled using a specially formulated MWCNT carbon matrix
- Porous sulfur-containing carbon matrix for cathode and separator coating, specially processed to provide stable chemistry
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Light, durable solar caping

- Sceye applied its expert lamination know-how to create a lighter solar cape essential for long endurance, heavy lift missions
- Covers large airship surface for maximum solar capture generating 10s of kWs of power
- Backing and weather layer developed with extreme weight reduction
Traction
Flights
Continuous development

Business model
Telecom
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Flight Operations Model for TelCo Services Station
Based on Management's Projections
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Recurring revenues
- Stations and payloads are provided as long-term services
- 1st year of new station revenues cover build, materials and flight operations
- Subsequent years cover maintenance, parts replacement, and flight operations
- 5-month payback on station
- Y1 contribution is $5.3M
- 5-year contribution of $24.9M
Market
Market fit

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SCEYE serves the 2nd largest market—
4B populated rural and which is growing:
- Beyond towers—unfeasible access and economics
- Beyond satellites—expensive receivers, low capacity/km2
- 3D beam forming fills white spaces—massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) arrays
- Sceye’s unique capacity, range, geostationary deliver unit economics that capture this vast middle market
Competition
Comparing HAPS
(High Altitude Platform Stations)

Fixed wing
Needs propulsion to stay aloft, but has insufficient surface area for solar panels, resulting in miniscule SWaP as the majority of power goes to propulsion.
Balloon
Balloon can not be geostationary, as it has no propulsion nor steering so drifts with the wind. Can lift plenty of payload, but offers limited power to payload.

Airship
The form factor of airships will dominate the HAPS category with superior SWaP and geostationary capability
Telco — what separates the field

Success in TelCo comes from reaching the greatest number of people which requires:
- Geostationary for precise coverage
- Powerful, large payloads to connect hundreds of thousands
- Economic advantage that enables access to all markets
Vision and strategy
Equitable connectivity
Sceye is creating a new and equitable service that works for everyone. It works with networks to extend broadband coverage to every corner, so that nobody’s left behind.
Sceye’s ability to lift and power in the stratosphere for months at a time, makes Sceye a compelling alternative to both satellites, terrestrial infrastructure and other HAPS (High Altitude Platform Stations).
By lifting a cell tower to this altitude, Sceye extends its reach 100s of times to improve the efficiency and speed, and because Sceye connects directly to any device—cellphone, tablet, PC—everyone can access a high-speed internet service from anywhere.
To deliver this breakthrough, Sceye deploys state-of-the-art massive active MIMO array antennae and 3D beamforming technologies that deliver extended range, efficiency and a high quality of service—far beyond that of current systems.
Sceye stations uniquely hold positions for precise delivery of coverage where it’s needed, filling in all existing coverage gaps. Sceye complements existing ground networks by avoiding interference, efficiently re-using their spectrum to provide a compatible, reliable and rapidly scalable layer of network in the sky.
Right path to commercialization
(1) Both projects have been abandoned - Facebook in 2018 and Alphabet in 2021.
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(1) Both projects have been abandoned - Facebook in 2018 and Alphabet in 2021.
Opportunity
The ask
To complete the current round to $50M, by raising an additional $13M.
The aim
$603M revenues, over $169M EBITDA forecast for 2026.
Financial forecast

Funding
$110M+ invested
More than $75M has been invested in the company by Mikkel Vestergaard, taking SCEYE successfully through R&D cycle to SCEYE commercial demonstrator flights.
In August 2021, SCEYE raised ~$37M from Series B investors.
Impact
While they're up there
Internet access is a basic right that improves healthcare, education, quality of life and democracy itself. Sceye is aiming to provide a truly equitable connectivity across rural communities and urban centers—connecting underserved locations that have previously been out of reach.
Sceye is also committed to monitoring and protecting the Earth. Sceye's platforms can carry advanced sensors that can track greenhouse gas emissions in real-time, supporting the development of enforceable, accountable climate-friendly policies.
Sceye believes that doing good is good business. Sceye is committed to providing universal connectivity and enabling environmental stewardship.

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Environmental
1. Real-time climate change monitoring and transparent conservation
- Civil society, Academia and Government
2. Precise and persistent monitoring of:
- Methane and CO2 emissions
- Ecosystems
- Natural resources
3. Early detection and prevention of:
- Forest fires, floods, storms
- Oil spills and dumping
- Illegal fishing and poaching – dark vessel identification
4. Sustainable resource management
- Water resources, usage, quality
- Agriculture—yield optimization, drought and pest mitigation
- Forest, vegetation, land, livestock management
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Humanitarian
- Human trafficking—detection and prevention
- Public health response—early detection and contact tracing
- Disaster relief response—protection of displaced populations
- Maritime—taking ‘search’ out of search and rescue
Founders

Mikkel Vestergaard
Chief Executive Officer
- Entrepreneur with nearly 30 years of material science and humanitarian innovation focus
- Has built and advised multiple global health and technology companies and a veteran of the materials science sector
- Has advised the Danish prime minister, been selected as a young global leader by the World Economic Forum and won a Saatchi & Saatchi award for world-changing ideas.
About the company
Sceye is a material science company leading a new generation of high-altitude platform stations, or HAPS. Its groundbreaking work will help transform lives.
Sceye’s success has been built on a meticulous iterative development and testing process combined with extensive flight experience, enabling the creation of one of the most advanced products in the HAPS sector.
Sceye's engineering team has a wealth of diverse expertise that combines the best of America’s Cup, aerospace and advanced academic research.
Sceye chose the form factor of an airship over balloons and fixed wing aircrafts as it allows for geostationary capability while lifting and powering far more payload than any other platform.
Sceye is solar powered during the day and battery powered at night. Sceye doesn’t rely on rocket fuel like satellites or single use plastics like balloons.
Working with its global partners, Sceye's mission is to connect and protect the planet from the stratosphere.
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