Zero Industries raises $3 million for space power infrastructure

Zero Industries, PBC, a startup focused on building power infrastructure in space, has completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by the Maezawa Fund, with participation from UntroD Capital Japan, NOW, Midtown, and various individual investors.

Headquartered in California with a Japanese subsidiary established in March 2026, the company is developing ‘Helios,’ a service designed to supply electricity to satellites in orbit via laser. This technology aims to allow satellites to reduce the weight of onboard solar panels and batteries, reallocating that mass to scientific instruments or propulsion systems.

The company’s roadmap includes outdoor kilometer-scale power transmission experiments between late 2026 and early 2027, followed by the design of an orbital demonstration vehicle in late 2027. The goal is to demonstrate satellite-to-satellite power transmission by 2030 and launch commercial power satellites shortly thereafter. Long-term ambitions include making terrestrial power generation unnecessary by 2035 and completing a ‘Dyson Swarm’ around the sun by 2150.