Irish start-up Setanta plans €3m raise for its AI satellite technology

From left: James Murphy, Tomas Chester, Adam Taylor and Jake O’Brien. Image: Paul Sharp/Sharppix

Setanta has also been accepted into ESA BIC Ireland, a two-year business incubation programme for space-related Irish start-ups.

Irish space-tech start-up Setanta Space Systems is seeking to raise €3m to build out its AI-powered satellite computing technology.

The Dublin-based company – headquartered at University College Dublin’s (UCD) start-up hub NovaUCD – was founded in 2025 by a team of engineers with backgrounds in European Space Agency (ESA) missions. It officially launched earlier this year.

“Our goal is to give mission designers the flexibility to scale compute on demand, process Earth observation data directly at the payload and give satellites the operational autonomy needed to respond immediately in increasingly complex orbital environments,” said Adam Taylor, the start-up’s co-founder and CEO.