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Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars
Publisher description: As Charter explains on its website, a common experience for space companies is that regular insurers "heard a bunch of scary science words and freaked out."
TechCrunch | Sep 30, 2026 | Sean O'Kane
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Charter Space, a finalist in last year’s TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, has raised a $5 million seed round to keep growing its budding space insurance business. Things go wrong in the space industry all the time, so companies are constantly planning contingencies. But insuring objects that go to space is still a rare practice.
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