EDGX Raises €2.3 Million to Bring Edge Computing to Space

Belgian spacetech EDGX has closed a €2.3 million seed round to accelerate the commercial rollout of its onboard AI computing system for satellites, Sterna. The round was co-led by imec. iStart future fund and the Flanders Future Tech Fund, managed by the Flemish public investment arm PMV. EDGX has two missions scheduled for 2026.

Alongside the investment, the company has signed a €1.1 million commercial deal with a satellite operator and confirmed its first in-orbit demonstration aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in February 2026. The company is positioning itself at the intersection of edge computing and space infrastructure, a rapidly growing segment as satellite constellations demand faster, more autonomous data processing.

“Customers aren’t waiting for flight validation, they’re signing now,” said Nick Destrycker, founder and CEO of EDGX. “With a full launch manifest, secured commercial contracts, and our first mission set for Falcon 9, this funding will enable us to scale to meet demand for real-time intelligence from space.”

At the heart of EDGX’s offering is the Sterna AI data processing unit (DPU), built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin hardware. Designed to run complex machine learning models directly onboard satellites, Sterna shifts the industry away from traditional "store-and-forward" architectures, where satellites collect large volumes of raw data and transmit it to Earth for processing.