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Updated Jul 28, 2026
Sep 2025 · Soma Capital and Xtal
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Henry Kwan / Substack · Oct 2025
Henry Kwan shared a public deck outlining Icarus’s long-term plan to ‘reclaim the Forgotten Frontier’ and dominate the stratosphere.
Henry Kwan / Substack · Oct 2025
Henry Kwan announced that Icarus joined Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch and described the company’s stratospheric aircraft vision.
SpaceWatch.GLOBAL · Sep 2025
Another report on the $6.1M seed round, confirming Soma Capital and Xtal as lead investors and noting additional participation from Nebular and Massive Tech Ventures.
TechCrunch · Sep 2025
Icarus announced a $6.1M seed round led by Soma Capital and Xtal, with Nebular and Massive Tech Ventures participating. The company said the funding would support embodied-AI robots for space cargo logistics and maintenance.
Icarus IFE Systems · Sep 2025
This appears to be a different company with the same name; not included as a milestone for icarus.one.