# Productized satellites manufactured at constellation scale

## Apex was founded to enable critical missions & next-generation constellations

Ian Cinnamon, CEO, and Max Benassi, CTO, came together in 2022 to solve one of the space industry’s biggest challenges: the satellite production bottleneck. While the challenge of reaching orbit has largely been solved through reusable launch vehicles and more frequent launches, one critical bottleneck continues to hinder the U.S. and its allies in their efforts to deploy critical proliferated systems: scaled satellite manufacturing.

Apex was founded to ensure the U.S. and its allies maintain a strategic advantage in the New Space Race by productizing and mass-manufacturing spacecraft. These platforms will provide the foundation for today's critical constellations and tomorrow’s next-generation proliferated architectures.

Today, Apex is delivering standardized satellite buses at scale by blending traditional aerospace techniques with new space mentalities and lessons from high-rate terrestrial manufacturing. Since our founding, our focus remains the same: short lead times, constellation-scale production, and highly reliable spacecraft.

Apex raises $200M Series D

[Apex raises $200M Series D](https://spacenews.com/apex-reaches-billion-dollar-valuation-with-series-d-funding-round/)

## Accelerate your mission with Apex's productized spacecraft solutions

Apex manufactures productized satellite platforms at scale, dramatically simplifying the bus procurement process and rapidly delivering off-the-shelf buses to accelerate customer missions across orbits.

Rather than designing bespoke solutions for every mission, Apex has developed three product families: Aries, Nova, and Comet. Each product serves a wide range of customers by offering built-in configurability that supports a broad spectrum of mission requirements while providing the scale and reliability of a productized platform.

### Manufactured at Speed & Scale

Apex’s relentless focus on speed and scale supports faster time-to-orbit for every mission, from responsive space security to proliferated next-generation constellations. Apex buses are being built and delivered to customers at rate today.

### Delivering your End-to-End Mission

End-to-end mission services accelerate and simplify your path to orbit, ensuring seamless programmatic execution across every stage of the mission lifecycle, from space vehicle analysis to payload integration and on-orbit commissioning.

## Apex timeline

## Awards

### LA Hard Tech 50

Upfront Ventures, 2025

### The Next

Billion-Dollar Startups

Forbes, 2025

### NatSec100 Top Defense Tech Startups

SVDG, 2025

### The 51 Most Disruptive Startups of 2024

Tech Crunch, 2024

### The 10 Hottest Satellite Companies in 2024

Via Satellite, 2024

## Join the journey

Achieving our mission is only made possible by continuing to grow our world-class team, which we do with care and intention every day. If you're an engineer, technician, operator, or builder of any kind inspired by pushing the limits of what’s possible, Apex just might be the right place for you.