Seizia Mastro is cornering a little-known part of the telecommunications market, but one that could

become crucial to a variety of industries from broadband internet to drones in war fighting to

air travel and autonomous driving.

Phased array communications.

It allows you dynamically to put the signal where the demand is and then remove it and put it somewhere else where the demand is less.

And it's really a dynamic way of managing a spectrum and power and how you use it and it's critical

for the next generation telecommunication and that's about to come.

Cseum Astro recently closed a Series B plus round of funding, adding an additional $65 million to its

cash pile.

Investors in the company include Truesdale Ventures, Development Bank of Japan, L3 Harris Technologies, Jaguar Land Rover, and Airbus Ventures.

Founder and CEO Shay Sapropore says he's always taken a disciplined approach to growing the startup,

and that's starting to pay off.

We have actually earned more contracts than we have spent VC money,

which is kind of unusual, so many companies have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in venture money and capital investment

before the first revenue comes through the door.

We've spent, we've raised 160 million. We've spent half of it in

almost eight years. We have half of it in the bank and with that 80 million we have already

generated well over 120 million dollars of

gap realizable bookings and revenue. On this episode what it takes to give a

niche century old technology a mass market makeover and how Seizum Astro is betting the future will rely on it.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is Manifest Space.

The latest is that we finished our series B-plus. I call it series B-plus because it was part of our series

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