Tumbleweed announces EUR6.9M seed after flying its first microgravity mission

Tumbleweed announced the PactVC-led round on November 3rd, 2026, four months after Oasis Alpha carried four first-time customers on Transporter-17.

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Why it matters

Tumbleweed has flown customer payloads and published Pod prices, giving researchers a concrete offer to test. Pod Nano lists at EUR15,000, while Tumbleweed puts its starting all-inclusive mission price at EUR480,000. The seed round will show whether standardized certification and operations can turn one sold-out flight into repeat demand.

A box-shaped satellite with solar panels and rows of vials floats above Earth beside spacecraft hardware marked “RW.”

On November 3rd, 2026, Tumbleweed, an Austrian spacetech startup selling standardized access to microgravity, announced a EUR6.9M seed round led by PactVC. Tumbleweed's press kit dates the announcement to November 3rd, 2026. That date verifies when Tumbleweed made the round public. The available sources do not establish a separate closing date.…

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