Confidential · Worldwide · Cohort 1 open
You built it. We'll fund what comes next.
OCULLO invests USD 30,000–100,000 in founders who have already designed and built space hardware or software — in cash, flight time, or both. Send a photo and a video of your work running. You'll have an answer in 21 days.
USD 1,000,000
Programme
USD 30k–100k
Per founder
5 seats
Cohort 1
21 days
To an answer
Cohort 1 closes 11 December 2026. Demo Day in Abu Dhabi, 19 February 2027.
Most early money backs the best deck. We back the best build.
Space needs more people who can design hardware and make it work. They're hard to find, because a pitch deck can't show what an engineer can do. A working part can.
So OCULLO puts capital behind work that already exists — an engine on a test stand, a board that has flown, flight software running on real hardware — and gets to know the person who made it.
Standard terms. Same for everyone.
What you get
- USD 30,000–100,000 for one defined next step.
- Optional flight credits: payload space on flights with a confirmed date.
- A seat at Demo Day in Abu Dhabi, in front of invited investors and partners.
- Introductions to programmes and customers across the GCC and ASEAN.
- An answer in 21 days.
What we take
- A small stake: 2.0% to 6.7%, on a post-money SAFE at one fixed USD 1,500,000 cap.
- No company yet? A convertible grant instead. It becomes equity only if you incorporate and raise within 3 years.
What you keep
- Control. No board seat, no veto.
- All your IP.
- Your independence. It's an investment, not a job.
Money gets you to the test stand. Flight gets you customers.
Take up to one third of your cheque as flight credits — payload space on flights with a confirmed date — instead of cash. Flight heritage is the hardest thing for a new hardware company to buy. We fly our own missions, so we can offer it.
Optional. Credits are valued at list price and used on flights with confirmed dates.
Run by people who fly their own hardware.
OCULLO is the founder programme of Ocullo Technology Pte. Ltd., Singapore — the company behind OculloSpace. We design, build and pay for our own missions.
DECIMAL-SAT1
A 1P PocketQube, launched on SpaceX Transporter-16 in March 2026.
AZAD HAD-1 “TheDreamer”
A high-altitude demonstration rocket, designed and built in Singapore, self-funded, and flown from Etlaq Spaceport, Oman, in 2026.
We know what it costs to get a part onto a test stand, because we pay for it ourselves.
Franco Gan, Founder of Ocullo Technology Pte. Ltd.
From application to answer in 21 days.
01
Check you qualify
Three yes-or-no questions, just below.
02
Show us the work
Who you are, what you built, a photo, a video of it running, and what the money would do next.
03
We review it
An engineer looks at the work, not the slides. Your materials stay private.
04
You hear back within 21 days
An invitation to talk, a no, or one request for missing evidence.
05
Sign, then funds
One standard document: a SAFE, or a convertible grant if you haven't incorporated. Money moves once both sides have signed.
06
Join your cohort
Build, fly, and present at Demo Day in Abu Dhabi.
Three questions before you apply.
01Did you design the core of this work — and could you explain it in detail without calling a contractor?
02Does a working version exist today — as hardware, as code you wrote, or running in operation?
03Is the design yours — not resold, white-labelled, or licensed from someone else?
Answer all three to see where you stand.
What good evidence looks like.
Eight example photos of the kind of work we fund. They're references, not applicants. Tap one to see what we'd ask you about it.
An airframe that exists. We'll ask about the structure, the fins, and what you've tested.
What a USD 50,000 cheque might cover.
Cheques run from USD 30,000 to USD 100,000. Here's one way USD 50,000 could split for a formal test campaign. It's an example, not a budget to copy — give us yours in the application.
USD 50,000
Stake at this cheque: 3.3%.
- Components and buildUSD 22,500
- TestingUSD 12,500
- Engineering timeUSD 9,000
- IP filingUSD 3,500
- Reserve for surprisesUSD 2,500
The reserve covers tests that don't go to plan. We don't fund conference travel.
What we fund.
Three categories, one standard: you built it, and it works.
Hardware
InA vehicle, payload, engine, structure, radio, ground station or instrument you designed.
OutCatalogue parts for resale. Renders of things not yet built.
Software
InFlight software, guidance and control, mission tools or data systems you wrote and can demo.
OutA new interface on someone else's model, renamed with space words.
Materials and methods
InA process, material or method you developed that a space system uses.
OutA brand, concept or plan with no working hardware or software behind it.
Your work stays yours.
- You keep all intellectual property.
- We never publish your photos, video, drawings or code.
- We never use your materials to train AI models.
- We name you only if we fund you, and only with your written agreement.
- Don't send export-controlled technical data (ITAR, EAR or your country's equivalent). A video of the work running is enough. If we proceed and need more, we'll arrange it under the right agreements.
Not ready for a cheque yet?
OCULLO Challenges pay USD 5,000–10,000 to solve specific engineering problems on our own missions. Winners are fast-tracked into the next cohort.
If it runs, apply.
A photo, a video, and what the money would do next. Answer in 21 days.