India, March 18 -- Bengaluru-based spacetech startup Pixxel has brought on board investors such as Techstars, Omnivore VC and other as it closed its seed funding round at $7.3 Mn. The new investments are an extension of the round it announced in August 2020, when a slew of investors had backed the company.

Last year, Pixxel had secured funding of $5 Mn from Indian VC firms Blume Ventures, growX ventures, Lightspeed India, Inventus Capital India along with angel network Stanford Angels and Ryan Johnson, a veteran in the Earth-imaging space. Johnson, former president at Planet Labs, one of the largest satellite imaging companies in the world, joined the board of directors at Pixxel.

Founded in 2019 by Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal, P...