In its first ten years, the company received over $300 million in private investments from DFJ, Felicis Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, Data Collective, and AME Cloud Ventures.19 Planet acquired satellite operating companies Black Bridge in 2015 and Terra Bella in 2017 (from Google, making Google an equity shareholder), as well as geospatial software company Boundless Spatial in 2018. After a 2018 funding round, Planet’s valuation was estimated to be over $1.4 billion.20 The startup now has hundreds of employees and partners in over forty countries, working in markets that include
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