Charter Space brings fintech to spacecraft insurance and is showing off its stuff at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

TechCrunchCenterEN 2 min read 100% complete by Aria AlamalhodaeiOctober 28, 2025 at 07:20 PM

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Yuk Chi Chan founded Charter Space in late 2021 after experiencing inefficiencies managing satellite data at a startup. The company aims to streamline spacecraft insurance by capturing manufacturing and test data directly from sources and feeding it into an underwriting interface for major insurers. This process targets faster, cheaper, and more reliable risk evaluation. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco, Charter Space showcased its technology as a finalist in the Startup Battlefield Top 20 competition. The company seeks to address the high cost of underwriting spacecraft insurance, which currently insures fewer than 300 satellites out of approximately 13,000 in orbit.

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