Sceye Receives Investment from SoftBank Corp. to Scale Stratospheric Platform Development and Launch Pre-Commercial HAPS Services in Japan in 2026

07.08.2025 - 18:06:54

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from the telecom industry, further validating the company's unique technical capabilities. The new capital will be used to support Sceye's continued development and entry into commercial operations.

About Sceye:
Founded in 2014, Sceye is an aerospace company leading the industry of High-Altitude Platform Systems (HAPS) to connect people and protect the planet. With more than 20 successful flights and partnerships with federal, state and commercial partners, Sceye is opening a new infrastructure layer between terrestrial and space systems. Its platforms expand connectivity, detect and manage climate disasters in real-time, and provide precise environmental monitoring to help humanity and our planet.

About SoftBank Corp.:
Guided by the SoftBank Group's corporate philosophy, "Information Revolution – Happiness for everyone," SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434) operates telecommunications and IT businesses in Japan and globally. Building on its strong business foundation, SoftBank Corp. is expanding into non-telecom fields in line with its "Beyond Carrier" growth strategy while further growing its telecom business by harnessing the power of 5G/6G, IoT, Digital Twin and Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) solutions, including High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)-based stratospheric telecommunications. While constructing AI data centers and developing homegrown LLMs specialized for the Japanese language with 1 trillion parameters, SoftBank is integrating AI with radio access networks (AI-RAN) with the aim of becoming a provider of next-generation social infrastructure. To learn more, please visit https://www.softbank.jp/en/.

Media contact:
Jasmine Wallsmith
jw@sceye.com