GlobeNewswire / Wedbush syndication · Dec 2025
Announces Gogo’s strategic equity investment and a new aviation-terminal program for business, military, and government aviation.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
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
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Satellite user terminals / flat-panel phased-array antennas
Offices
Business model
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
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Product Team Lead
Team Lead & Program Manager
Head of Operations
Investors
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
Pricing
Custom B2B / contract-based pricing; not publicly disclosed.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$5M-$10M (estimated; third-party estimate around $6.2M)
GlobeNewswire / Wedbush syndication · Dec 2025
Announces Gogo’s strategic equity investment and a new aviation-terminal program for business, military, and government aviation.
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.