{"id":239851,"date":"2026-06-28T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ftc-gives-musk-the-ok-to-acquire-spacex-alumni-startup-mesh"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:12:30","slug":"ftc-gives-musk-the-ok-to-acquire-spacex-alumni-startup-mesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ftc-gives-musk-the-ok-to-acquire-spacex-alumni-startup-mesh","title":{"rendered":"FTC gives Musk the OK to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ftc-gives-musk-the-ok-to-acquire-spacex-alumni-startup-mesh.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mesh Optical came out of stealth in February when it announced that it raised a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/17\/spacex-vets-raise-50m-series-a-for-data-center-links\/\">$50 million Series A<\/a> led by Thrive Capital.<\/p>\n<p>Before founding Mesh Optical, the startup\u2019s co-founders, Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Grown-Haeberli, developed the optical communication links that keep thousands of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites interconnected.<\/p>\n<p>The Mesh co-founders saw an opportunity to develop optical transceivers for terrestrial data centers, as light-based hardware is faster and more energy-efficient than traditional electrical-based systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesh Optical came out of stealth in February when it announced that it raised a $50 million Series A led by Thrive Capital. Before founding Mesh Optical, the startup\u2019s co-founders, Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Grown-Haeberli, developed the optical communication links that keep thousands of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites interconnected. The Mesh co-founders saw an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}