GlobeNewswire / Wedbush syndication · Dec 2025
Announces Gogo’s strategic equity investment and a new aviation-terminal program for business, military, and government aviation.
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Farcast (formerly UTVATE) is a San Francisco-based satellite-communications hardware company building advanced SATCOM user terminals. Its core product is a flat-panel phased-array antenna/user terminal that uses electronic beam scanning to compensate for satellite and user movement while reducing SWaP-C. The company sells into satellite operator, aviation, defense, and enterprise connectivity programs and appears to operate as a hardware-heavy, in-person engineering startup.
Primary product
Flat-panel phased-array SATCOM user terminals (AESA-based user terminals)
Founded
2019
Headquarters
580 Market Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
Team size
11-50
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Satellite Telecommunications
Sub-industry
Satellite user terminals / flat-panel phased-array antennas
Offices
580 Market Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
Business model
B2B hardware sales
Program-based development and integration contracts
Funding
Stage
Series A / extension
Total raised
$23.6M
Latest round
Corporate minority · Dec 2025
Dec 2025 · Gogo
Series A / strategic investment
Nov 2025 · Telesat
Apr 2025 · Lockheed Martin
Dec 2020 · 8VC
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Product Team Lead
Team Lead & Program Manager
Head of Operations
Work & culture
Mission-driven hardware startup with meaningful ownership, high autonomy, and a strong in-person engineering culture focused on building next-generation satellite connectivity hardware.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
No public salary bands were posted in the open job listings. Public compensation signals include meaningful equity, 401(k) with a 5% company match, $13,600 in annual perks, and fully paid family health insurance.
Benefits
Meaningful company stock ownership
Unlimited PTO
Company shutdown days
Parental leave
401(k) with company matching
Fully paid health, dental, and vision insurance
Annual wellness/commute/meals perks
Product & market
Pricing
Custom B2B / contract-based pricing; not publicly disclosed.
Differentiators
- —Single-aperture, full-duplex phased-array terminals
- —Electronic beam scanning to track satellite/user movement
- —Lower SWaP-C and cost through COTS components and outsourced manufacturing
- —Modem-agnostic terminals for multiple satellite networks
Technology
Altium
i2c
Solidworks
Python
Linux
Yocto
Cortex
C
Customers
Telesat
Gogo
Military and government aviation customers
Competitors
Kymeta
Gilat Satellite Networks
Tejas Networks
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$5M-$10M (estimated; third-party estimate around $6.2M)
Latest news
Telesat · Nov 2025
Official announcement of a US$5M equity investment and expanded partnership to deliver an enterprise-class flat-panel antenna user terminal integrated with Telesat Lightspeed, with production readiness targeted for 2027.
Payload · Apr 2025
Reports a $2M Lockheed Martin investment as part of a Series A extension and highlights Farcast’s low-cost, high-performance user-terminal approach for defense and mobility use cases.
Payload · Mar 2025
Explains the name change from UTVate to Farcast, the company’s customer-expansion goals, and its claim that the phased-array terminals can transmit and receive simultaneously on the same aperture while lowering SWaP-C.
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