Ripcord, founded by a former Apple whiz kid, builds robotic systems for scanning huge quantities of paper, with customers including big companies and universities. Ripcord has raised another $25 ...

The way Ripcord CEO Alex Fielding discusses chief competitor Iron Mountain, the record keeping company sounds like it runs the warehouse from the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The startup ...

A number of startups have emerged aimed at cleaning up low Earth orbit, which is currently crowded with millions of pieces of space junk — including anything from broken satellites, to rocket ...

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. It was a busy week for the space industry! Keep reading for news from Astra, Blue Origin, Varda Space and more. Tips, opinions, criticism, thoughts? Email me at ...

Alex Fielding has already had a heck of a career. In 1996, at the age of 18, he joined Apple, where he worked on the first iMac under the just-returned cofounder Steve Jobs. In 2001, he and Apple ...

Privateer, which was cofounded by Apple and NASA vets, wants to make satellite data as ubiquitous as GPS applications with a software platform providing insights on natural disasters, logistics ...

Steve Wozniak has a new — and potentially lucrative — passion: Space junk. But the money, according to Wozniak’s co-founder in this new venture, couldn’t be further from the point. “I don’t think ...

Orbital Insight's TerraScope geospatial analytics platform is designed to help customers monitor facilities, supply chains, customers and competitors. Orbital Insight is now a wholly owned subsidiary ...