FormerSpaceX

Sift

Telemetry and observability for machines.

Founded
2022
Headquarters
El Segundo, CA
Disclosed funding
$67M
Status
Operating
Sector
Software & AI
Latest round
—
Reported valuation
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Website
siftstack.com

Overview

Sift gives hardware teams a single place to ingest, review and alert on sensor data during testing and operations. Both founders came from SpaceX; Karthik Gollapudi led Dragon flight software.

Funding

About $67M per Fast Company.

Disclosed funding is the sum of publicly reported rounds found in the sources below. It is a floor, not a complete total.

Founders

Karthik Gollapudi, Co-founder
At SpaceX: Dragon flight software lead
Austin Spiegel, Co-founder & CEO
At SpaceX: Software engineer
telemetryobservabilityhardware

Sources

  1. TechCrunch: With Sift, two ex-SpaceX engineers
  2. Fast Company: Inside the SpaceX founder factory

Last verified September 30, 2026.