QOSMIC, a Bengaluru-based deep-tech company building optical communication infrastructure for space, on Wednesday said it has raised $3.33 million in a seed funding round.

The funding will accelerate the company’s work in building the data layer of the space economy, a network that moves information between satellites, orbital data centers and ground networks.

“The next decade of the space economy will be defined by data. Satellites are rapidly becoming more capable, but the infrastructure connecting them to Earth has not kept pace,” company co-founder and CEO Shreyans Jain said in a statement. He said, “We believe that optical communications will become as fundamental to space infrastructure as fiber optics has become to the Internet. This funding enables us to accelerate that transformation and build the connectivity layer on which the next generation of space applications will rely.”

Founded in 2025, QOSMIC is building laser-based communications systems that enable satellites to transmit significantly larger amounts of data than traditional radio-frequency systems.

According to the company, “Modern spacecraft generate terabytes a day, yet rely on radio-frequency links constrained by spectrum, congestion and short transmission windows. The emerging orbital economy will demand terabit-scale connectivity between spacecraft, orbital data centers, and Earth, at a scale radio-frequency systems cannot reach.” QOSMIC’s laser-based optical communication systems can overcome this problem, as they can transfer data between orbit and Earth at significantly higher speeds and capacity.