{"id":436383,"date":"2026-05-07T06:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436383\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:03:07","slug":"skyroot-becomes-indias-first-space-tech-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436383\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyroot Becomes India&#8217;s First Space-Tech Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1712994D:IN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Skyroot Aerospace Pvt.<\/a> has become India\u2019s first space-tech unicorn after securing $60 million in fresh funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GIC:SP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">GIC Pte<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/935391Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Sherpalo Ventures<\/a>, lifting its valuation to $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The round also saw participation from funds managed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/9903115D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">BlackRock Inc.<\/a>, taking Skyroot\u2019s total capital raised to $160 million, the company said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skyroot Aerospace Pvt. has become India\u2019s first space-tech unicorn after securing $60 million in fresh funding from GIC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[21199,21538,61,2568,60,123,8874,1259,82,190433,190432,247,1884,80,18976],"class_list":["post-436383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-alphabet-inc-cl-a","tag-blackrock-inc","tag-ie","tag-india","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-science","tag-sherpalo-ventures","tag-skyroot-aerospace-pvt-ltd","tag-space","tag-startups","tag-technology","tag-valuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}