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Accion Systems
Accion Systems
Redefining space mobility.
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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