AI networking technology startup Atombeam has raised $18.3 million to accelerate adoption of its software targeted for satellite, defense, and commercial links. Atombeam announced the round on Tuesday, increasing the company’s total funding to $55 million.
The company has developed Neurpac, a software that compacts data packets to make them easier to transfer. Neurpac reports this multiplies effective bandwidth by 4x and says it has validated its tech with a major satellite operator’s own traffic.
It has also developed Persistent Cognitive Machine (PCM) technology, an AI architecture that it says requires exponentially less power and resources than large language models.
Co-founder and CEO Charles Yeomans called the round an “inflection point” for Atombeam that will help accelerate Neurpac adoption and bring the PCM tech through independent benchmarking and into customer pilots.
“With Neurpac we are solving the challenges Large Language models exacerbate – wired, cellular and satellite networks and data centers pushed to the brink by heavy AI workloads and the barrage of data from connected machines,” Yeomans said.
Earlier this year, Atombeam received an expanded contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to use its Neurpac technology to improve the data transmission capabilities of Link 16. Atombeam reported that in demonstrations to the SDA, it reduced Link 16 data streams over military satellites by 86% to 89% while increasing available bandwidth by a factor of seven to nine times.
