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Business Journals
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Journals
Zin Technologies parent Voyager aims to raise $316M in IPO
Story Highlights Voyager Technologies aims to raise $274-316 million in IPO. Voyager owns 67% of Starlab, replacing ISS in 2029. Voyager-owned Zin Technologies is Northeast Ohio's tie to Starlab. A Denver-based space company vying to replace the International Space Station hopes to generate between $274.2 million and $316.4 million in its initial public offering, the company revealed in new IPO documents Monday. Voyager Technologies, which filed its preliminary prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 16, said it expects to offer its shares with a midpoint price of $27.50 per share, or between $26 to $29 each. The company plans to sell 11 million shares of its stock, it said. GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY Find Local Events Near You Connect with a community of local professionals. Explore All Events When it goes public, Voyager's stock will be sold on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol VOYG. The company is the majority owner of Starlab, a commercial space station currently meant to launch in 2029 to replace the International Space Station, which is expected to reach the end of its operational lifespan in 2028. Zin Technologies in Middleburg Heights has long been Northeast Ohio's tie to Starlab. Voyager acquired Zin Technologies in 2023 because of its "storied history" of working with NASA for more than 50 years on projects including the International Space Station but has since laid off about 150 Zin workers. In its most recent filings, Voyager said it would use the proceeds to invest in itself: growth initiatives, general corporate purposes, debt payments, administrative expenses, research and development programs, and pursuing mergers and acquisitions. Voyager's founder and CEO Dylan Taylor predicted in 2021 that the company would go public. The U.S. Government is by far Voyager's biggest customer. Depending on the quarter, anywhere from 68.7% to 88.2% of the company's funding comes from government contracts. Since its founding in 2019, it's been awarded roughly $800 million in contracts and Space Act Agreements. 25.6% of its revenue came exclusively from NASA by the end of 2024. Last year, Voyager Technologies made $144.2 million in revenue alongside a net loss of $65.6 million. It owns 67% of Starlab, a joint venture with Airbus, which owns 30.5%. Palantir, which designed the station's operating system, Mitsubishi and MDA Space own the rest of the joint venture. Starlab is set to be launched by SpaceX's Starship. Unlike the ISS, which was assembled piece by piece in orbit with multiple launches, Starlab will be fully built on Earth and launched in a single rocket. This cuts down on the cost, as launches are hideously expensive, but a single launch presents its own risks, according to the prospectus. Voyager projected Starlab to cost $2.8 billion to $3.3 billion to develop. NASA already contributed a Space Act Agreement worth $217.5 million to the project, though $70.3 million of those funds have yet to be delivered, according to the prospectus. In 2024, the company's revenue was split roughly in half between its space and defense wings. Its biggest customers and partners are NASA, the U.S. Air Force, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Airbus and the U.S. Air Force. As of March, the company employed 514 people across 10 locations, with a significant chunk of the workforce in San Diego and Washington, D.C. Sign up for the Business Journal's free daily newsletter to receive the latest business news impacting Cleveland.
Business Insider
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Voyager wants to ride the defense tech wave to a $1.6 billion IPO
Voyager Technologies, a defense and space tech company, aims to raise up to $319 million in an initial public offering that could value it as high as $1.6 billion, the company said on Monday. Their filing underscores how defense and space tech companies are drawing renewed attention from DC and Silicon Valley. In his second inaugural address in January, President Donald Trump declared that "we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also bullish on how tech will change the battlefield. Private market defense investors are rallying behind such calls for modernization, while the Defense Department has created a new program to fund defense startups spinning out of college campuses. There's been some action in public markets, too: Kochav Defense Acquisition Corporation, a defense tech special-purpose acquisition company, completed its IPO in late May. IPOs have largely remained sluggish, though fintech companies Chime and Circle, and virtual physical therapy company Hinge Health have all recently gone public. Bankers say the window for going public is narrowing due to political and market volatility, so they're urging companies to move quickly toward an IPO while investor appetite lasts. Founded in 2019, Voyager is developing a low-Earth orbit commercial space station, Starlab, funded by over $200 million from NASA. The company is working with Airbus, Mitsubishi, MDA Space, and Palantir on the project. The company, initially called Voyager Space, dropped "Space" in a January rebrand to focus more on defense applications, like tech that improves the precision, speed, and reliability of missiles and defense interceptors. Voyager reported $34.5 million in net sales in the first quarter of 2025, up more than 14% from the same period last year. But its net losses in the quarter almost doubled, nearly hitting $27 million compared to just under $15 million a year ago, according to an SEC filing. Early Voyager investors include national security-focused firms Industrious Ventures, Marlinspike, and Scout Ventures. Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are jointly leading the proposed offering. The company's shares, "VOYG," will trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
Business Insider
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Voyager eyes a $1.6 billion IPO amid defense tech boom
Voyager Technologies, a defense and space tech company, aims to raise up to $319 million in an initial public offering that could value it as high as $1.6 billion, the company said on Monday. Their filing underscores how defense and space tech companies are drawing renewed attention from DC and Silicon Valley. In his second inaugural address in January, President Donald Trump declared that "we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also bullish on how tech will change the battlefield. Private market defense investors are rallying behind such calls for modernization, while the Defense Department has created a new program to fund defense startups spinning out of college campuses. There's been some action in public markets, too: Kochav Defense Acquisition Corporation, a defense tech special-purpose acquisition company, completed its IPO in late May. IPOs have largely remained sluggish, though fintech companies Chime and Circle, and virtual physical therapy company Hinge Health have all recently gone public. Bankers say the window for going public is narrowing due to political and market volatility, so they're urging companies to move quickly toward an IPO while investor appetite lasts. Founded in 2019, Voyager is developing a low-Earth orbit commercial space station, Starlab, funded by over $200 million from NASA. The company is working with Airbus, Mitsubishi, MDA Space, and Palantir on the project. The company, initially called Voyager Space, dropped "Space" in a January rebrand to focus more on defense applications, like tech that improves the precision, speed, and reliability of missiles and defense interceptors. Voyager reported $34.5 million in net sales in the first quarter of 2025, up more than 14% from the same period last year. But its net losses in the quarter almost doubled, nearly hitting $27 million compared to just under $15 million a year ago, according to an SEC filing. Early Voyager investors include national security-focused firms Industrious Ventures, Marlinspike, and Scout Ventures. Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are jointly leading the proposed offering. The company's shares, "VOYG," will trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Space Station? Would You Believe Less Than $4 Billion?
Voyager Technologies's confidential IPO prospectus has just been made public. Investors still don't know how much the IPO will cost, but we do now know Voyager's annual revenue -- and losses. Voyager will probably continue losing money for at least another four to five years. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of millionaires › It took 13 years, 15 nations, and roughly $100 billion to build the International Space Station (ISS). But one company thinks it can build a replacement for as little as $3 billion -- or less. That company's name is Voyager Technologies ... and it's about to list an initial public offering (IPO). I first wrote about the impending Voyager Technologies IPO back in February, but to be honest, there wasn't a whole lot to say about it then. Voyager made its first filing for initial public offering under a guarantee of confidentiality, you see. As a result, most of what we knew about Voyager's IPO at the time came directly from Voyager itself, via information published on its own website. That just changed. Last week, Voyager finally filed its IPO prospectus (termed an S-1) publicly. And while a lot of important data blocks in the document remain blank and yet to be filled in, Voyager did add a lot of background information on its business. Voyager is best known today as one of four teams competing for NASA contracts to kick-start Voyager's efforts to create a replacement -- privately owned -- space station. But Voyager actually describes itself as an "innovation-driven defense technology and space solutions company," suggesting much more widely ranging interests, above and beyond just building a space station replacement. For this reason, structurally, the company has organized itself in three business divisions: Defense & National Security, Space Solutions, and Starlab Space Stations. The Starlab division will participate in an international joint venture to operate the proposed Starlab space station. "Equity" partners in this venture include Palantir Technologies, Airbus, Japan's Mitsubishi, and Canada's MDA Space. Voyager owns 67% of the JV, Airbus 30.5%, while Palantir, Mitsubishi, and MDA own less than 1% each. Hilton and Northrop Grumman are non-equity "strategic" partners performing various roles in the venture, and SpaceX is under contract to launch the space station aboard its Starship launch vehicle in 2029. Voyager notes that its space station concept features a "proven metallic habitat design" that can "be deployed and achieve initial operational capability in a single launch on SpaceX's Starship." This single module, says Voyager, will replace "approximately 45% of the pressurized volume of the U.S. Segment (non-Russian) of the ISS." Two launches should therefore essentially replace the entire working volume of the U.S. portion of the space station. And here's the best part: Whereas ISS cost $100 billion to build, Voyager said it expects to build and launch its Starlab for "approximately $2.8 billion to $3.3 billion." That's a lot cheaper than the original recipe ISS cost. It's also a lot less cash than Voyager has on hand (just $175.5 million at last report), which explains why Voyager must IPO to raise the cash it needs to build Starlab. The bigger question for investors is: Should you help them out with that, by handing over your cash to Voyager at the IPO? And that's a question of valuation. Voyager generated $136.1 million in revenue in 2023, then grew its revenue 6% to $144.2 million in 2024. Much of this money has come from NASA, the company's largest customer, accounting for 25.6% of 2024 revenue. NASA has awarded the company $217.5 million toward developing an ISS replacement. Of this, $147.2 million has already been paid out between 2022 and 2023. Including NASA, the company says it has won "approximately $800 million" in contracts and Space Act Agreements from the U.S. government, which gives you an idea of future revenue prospects. (Out of these contracts, $93.1 million is considered backlog -- work for which Voyager has "a written contract or purchase order" either in-hand or awaiting execution). As for costs, well, those are large, significantly larger than revenue at present, resulting in a $65.6 million loss in 2024. Net losses per (still privately traded) share are about $9.88, up 88% year over year. And investors should expect losses to grow as the company spends to get Starlab completed and ready for launch. Revenue probably won't begin offsetting rising costs until 2029, when the space station launches and begins operations. Long story short, the prospectus just filed by Voyager paints the picture of a speculative investment, one with substantial revenue, but perhaps not enough to justify its projected $2 billion to $3 billion valuation at IPO. Even at the low end of this valuation, $147 million in trailing-12-month sales implies a 13.6 price-to-sales ratio on the stock. As for P/E, well, Voyager has no earnings on which to hang a price-to-earnings valuation, and probably won't have any earnings for another four to five years. Does all this mean you shouldn't invest in the Voyager IPO? Not necessarily. But it does mean you should make any "investment" by being fully conscious that what you're really doing is speculating on the venture not going bust. And you should probably examine your risk tolerance before doing that. Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you'll want to hear this. 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Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Spell-A-Bration raises money for Johnson City Schools' Starlab
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL)—The Johnson City School Foundation hosted its annual Spell-A-Bration fundraising event on Thursday. The event aims to raise money for out-of-budget needs. This year's fundraiser's proceeds will support the district's rotating Starlab. Carter County BOE votes to repair Hampton High School at current location 'We do this because obviously we are the school foundation, and we support the school system and we think it's very, very important to support them and provide things for them like we do teacher grants in the fall, we do scholarships in the spring, and then we do this fundraiser to purchase whatever the school system needs that's not budgeted for,' Tembra Aldridge, Johnson City School's Foundation President, said. Aldridge mentioned that teams dressed in costumes and set up decorative tables to prepare for the competition. 'My favorite part is when teams get out, then they can write humorous, sometimes derogatory, comments on their board and it is hilarious,' she said. 'Some of the things that they write on there, and it's just fun…..We give a best sport award, so it's fun when, you get to see how much fun they're having after they get out.' This year's top three placers are as follows: 1st place: Highway to Spell – Southside Elementary School; The winner's trophy will be displayed at the school for one year 2nd place: Rotary Stingers 3rd place: Spell Casters – Mountain View Elementary School Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
