Just raised · Defense & space

Foundational: funding and hiring

  • £8.2M Pre-seed
  • 29 open roles
  • Announced Oct 11, 2026
  • Recruiter fit 59
  • Leadership hire
  • Hiring with no recruiter role open

Open roles

29 open roles on Foundational's job board (opens in a new tab)

Eng 16 · Sales & marketing 2 · Other 11

  • BD Manager (EMEA)
  • Bids & Grants Manager
  • Head of Sales / Commercial Director
  • Satellite Laser Ranging Engineer
  • Full Stack Software Engineer
  • Office Manager
  • Facilities Manager
  • Founders Associate
  • HR Lead
  • Chief of Staff
  • Head of Engineering
  • Senior Optical Engineer
  • Laser Engineer
  • Opto-mechanical Engineer
  • Electronics/Hardware Engineer
  • Workshop Technician
  • Apprentice Technician
  • Field Station Engineer
  • Network Operations Engineer
  • Logistics & Customs Coordinator
  • Senior Geodesist
  • Geodetic Data Scientist
  • Astrodynamics Engineer
  • Optical SSA / Image Processing Engineer
  • Backend / Data Platform Engineer
  • DevOps / SRE
  • Technical Sales Engineer
  • BD Manager (US)
  • Orbital Analyst

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Funding

Foundational raised £8.2M Pre-seed, announced October 11, 2026.

Foundational Raises £8.2 Million Pre-Seed To Scale Satellite Laser Ranging

Company

First seen
Oct 11, 2026

Recruiter fit 59/100

  • Recency +12
  • Round size +12
  • Open roles +20
  • No recruiter role open +10
  • Leadership hire +5

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