About

Founded

2014

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Industry

Space, Hardware

Company Description

Satellites have changed a lot in the last decade. Propulsion has too. At Accion, we reinvented propulsion for New Space, and created a more efficient ion thruster: the Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) engine.

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Funding

Total Raised

$68.5 million

Valuation

Undisclosed

Significant Investors

Tracker Capital, Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Shasta Ventures

Company Traction

Accion Systems' partners include MIT, Boeing, NASA, JPL, and the United States Department of Defense.

As of July 2021, Accion Systems was building its fourth-generation TILE propulsion system.

Leadership Team

Darren Garber: CEO at Accion Systems.

Courtney Oliver: COO at Accion Systems. Former Systems Integration and Test Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute.

Stephanie Melikian: Director of Manufacturing at Accion Systems. Former Senior Manufacturing Engineer at L3Harris Technologies.

Kent Lietzau: VP of Business Development at Accion Systems. Former Director of Business Development at SEAKR Engineering.

Caitlin MacDonald: Head of Business Operations at Accion Systems. Former Team Lead, People Operations at Google.

Press

TechCrunch (July 21, 2021): Accion Systems raises $42 million in Series C to accelerate development of 4th-gen propulsion system

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