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Planet Labs

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Planet Labs

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Founded and run by Will Marshall, it is mentioned as a newly public company in the stock market. observed

fresh · evidence 6d ago 10 sources no confidence data
—/100
Developer momentum
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Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings

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Current round

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Opportunity & risk

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9 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor Planet Labs Acquires VanderSat ↗
  2. rumor Introducing Red Planet Labs with $5M in funding ↗
  3. rumor Satellite Maker Planet Labs Acquires BlackBridge's Geospatial Business ↗
  4. SEC · primary SEC D/A filed ↗
  5. SEC · primary SEC D/A filed ↗
  6. rumor Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites ↗
  7. SEC · primary SEC D filed ↗
  8. rumor Planet Labs Raises Series C Funding, Primed for Growth ↗
  9. SEC · primary SEC D filed ↗
  10. rumor Planet Labs Raises $52 Million From Yuri Milner ↗
  11. rumor Planet Labs Raises $52M in Series B Financing ↗
  12. SEC · primary SEC D filed ↗
  13. SEC · primary SEC D filed ↗
  14. rumor Planet Labs Raises $13M To Build World’s Largest Fleet Of Satellites ↗

Narrative vs. reality SEC filings beyond reported funding

Reported narrative · Tier 2
No reported round on record.
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
6 Form D
latest filed 2015-07-13 · none near the reported round

The company has Form D filings on record that our reported-funding data does not cover — a quiet raise worth a look.

Regulatory filings SEC EDGAR · primary source

Form D filings — the company's own authoritative record of a Reg D private raise, filed with the SEC. Primary-source evidence: not commentary, not inference. 6 filings, latest 2015-07-13.

Federal contracts USAspending · public record

Realized federal award records for this company — a verifiable, dollar-denominated government signal. Recipient name matched with high confidence; figures are per-award totals from USAspending.gov.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0.14

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 171 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention · some SEC filings on record. ▲ 171 Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites 2015-04-13 ↗

Raw observations 27 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name Planet Labs observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 171 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13", "evidence_type": observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13", "evidence_type": observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13", "evidence_type": observed artifact ↗ 2021-11-11 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13", "evidence_type": observed artifact ↗ 2021-11-11 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13", "evidence_type": observed artifact ↗ 2021-11-11 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2015-04-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2015-04-13 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369826", "title": "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites", "points": 171, "created_at": "2015-04-13"} observed artifact ↗ 2015-04-13 normalized 0.20
description Founded and run by Will Marshall, it is mentioned as a newly public company in the stock market. observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
index.ai_tie AI_ADJACENT observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
sec.cik 0001543165 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.count 6 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.filings [{"cik": "0001543165", "form": "D/A", "filed": "2015-07-13", "accession": "0001544035-15-000002", "index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543165/000154403515000002/0001544035-15-000002- observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.latest_filed 2015-07-13 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.99
sec.form_d.related_persons {"filed": "2015-07-13", "persons": [{"last_name": "Marshall", "first_name": "William", "clarification": null, "relationships": ["Executive Officer", "Director"]}, {"last_name": "Schingler", "first_nam observed url 2015-07-13 normalized 0.99
sector defense derived calc 2026-08-08 superseded 0.90
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0AW3VDM599VFE2JT4GMNC83", "signals": [{"quote": "the navy actually trusted us in this moment lives are on the line we're going to send this autonomous platform to go a observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-06 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M0AW3VDM599VFE2JT4GMNC83", "signals": [{"quote": "the united states can build a hundred thousand gross tons of ships every year gross ton is this volumetric measure of observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-06 promoted 0.50
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "Amazon's transformation, Peloton's mistakes, VC market downturn & more with Ben Gilbert | E1582 — planet-labs", "source_id": "01KXRSPFKE7BCVEZH27ZBR91BZ-m-cf79b4ed914a9840" observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-11 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "ByteDance limits daily app time for kids in China + Orbital Insight’s Kevin O’Brien | E1286 — planet-labs", "source_id": "01KXRSPKCRD6VKHEAG6A9DNM95-m-cf79b4ed914a9840", "e observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-13 normalized 0.95
source.document.reference {"kind": "video", "title": "www.youtube.com/watch — planet-labs", "source_id": "01M0ABWCGA2RS948568XRNC05F-m-cf79b4ed914a9840", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:a8aa088ff43564c66aa532c68c83245767e35580 observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-18 normalized 0.95