ABOUT SPACE ALMA

An instrument
company,
in orbit.

Space Alma builds the listening instrument: a wide-band RF payload that flies on 6U to 12U platforms and turns the radio noise of the ocean into positions, tracks and identities.

TEAM

Physics, software,
and a decade of SDR.

Two complementary trajectories: one through Silicon Valley systems software, one through experimental physics instrumentation. Both converge on the same payload.

Founder · CEO

Matias
Lavista

Physics-trained software operator. Builds the company around the instrument.

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COO at Form.com, Led Engineering Org (Boston USA · Kyiv Ukraine). Created Product Management Org. Grew Revenue by developing key customer use cases. Company acquired in 2018.

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15 years in software, more than a decade in the United States. SDE in Silicon Valley including AWS: C, Linux kernel, network packet firewalls, hardware.

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B.S. Physics, MIT · M.S. Computer Science, UChicago.

Head of R&D

Manuel
Garcia Redondo

End to end Software Defined Radio development: from the antenna to the SDR signal processing.

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PhD EE, SDR & Signal Processing: joint doctorate between UNSAM and KIT Karlsruhe, summa cum laude. Thesis selected by INVAP as a top 3 engineering thesis in Argentina.

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10+ years designing ultra-low-noise receiver systems, from microwave systems to real-time digital processing. Embedded systems, RF electronics, hardware design.

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Eight years at QUBIC, an observatory for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, where he delivered scientific instrumentation.

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Career built at ITeDA (CNEA-CONICET), with an 18-month international stay at KIT. Has taught at UTN, UNSAM and UNLP.

REACH US

The ocean is
already transmitting.