# Black Sky — Vendor Intelligence Profile
> Source: Vedex (https://vedex.ai) | Generated: 2026-10-05T10:34:45.553Z

## Overview

- **Vendor Type**: data_provider
- **Headquarters**: Herndon, Virginia, USA
- **Year Founded**: 2013
- **Employee Count**: 350
- **Description**: BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that provides on-demand, high-revisit satellite imagery and analytics to help organizations monitor global events and activities. By combining a proprietary constellation of small satellites with an AI-driven software platform, BlackSky delivers actionable insights to government and commercial customers for defense, supply chain, and infrastructure monitoring.
- **Slogan**: See the world in real-time.
- **Domain**: blacksky.com
- **Company Website**: http://blacksky.com

## Categories & Sectors

- **Categories**: Geospatial Data, Satellite Imagery, Computer Vision, Predictive Analytics, Defense Intelligence
- **Sectors**: Defense and Intelligence, Supply Chain Management, Infrastructure, Maritime, Government

## Marketplace Presence

- **Source Platforms**: alternativedata_org, datarade
- **Platform Count**: 2
- **Delivery Methods**: REST API, S3 Bucket, Azure Blob, Web UI download
- **Geographic Coverage**: Global

## Intelligence Scores

- **Vendor Score**: 52.2
- **Market Presence**: 27.9
- **Trust & Compliance**: 99
- **Integration**: 49.1
- **AI Readiness**: 47
- **Business Maturity**: 58
- **Support & Operations**: 60.8

## Trust & Compliance (vendor-reported)

> These are the vendor's own attestations as collected from public sources, not Vedex's. Verify directly with the vendor.

- **Trust Score**: 100/100 (based on vendor-reported attestations, not verified by vedex)
- **SOC 2 Type II**: Yes (current report available)
- **ISO 27001 Certified**: Yes (with certificate date)
- **GDPR Compliance**: Fully compliant (DPA available)
- **Encryption Standards**: AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit
- **Penetration Testing**: Annual third-party penetration testing and continuous vulnerability scanning
- **Historical Breach Record**: No public incident found in our search (unverified)
- **Data Residency Options**: US, Client choice
- **Written Compliance Policies**: Data privacy, Information security, Anti-corruption, Whistleblowing

## AI & ML Readiness

- **LLM-Friendly Output Formats**: Structured JSON with schemas
- **File Formats Supported**: JSON, CSV, Parquet
- **SDK Languages**: Python

## Business & Funding

- **Funding Stage**: Public
- **Estimated ARR Range**: $100M+
- **Key Customers**: US Department of Defense, NASA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Various commercial logistics firms
- **Key Partnerships**: Rocket Lab

## Competitors

- **Competitors**: 40Geo, Petabite, SafeGraph, Space Know

## Products

### BlackSky AI-Driven Analytics
AI-powered analytics platform that automatically analyzes satellite imagery to detect and track objects like vehicles and ships.
- **Pricing**: $137,500
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/blacksky-ai-driven-analytics-02dbf8/llms.txt

### Spectra AI
Rapid revisit capability with integrated AI-driven analytics.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/spectra-ai-7e84e5/llms.txt

### Spectra AI Platform
Focuses on low-latency delivery of imagery and insights for time-sensitive decisions.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/spectra-ai-platform-7e811f/llms.txt

### Spectra platform
Focus on low-latency delivery of imagery and AI-derived insights.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/spectra-platform-40f539/llms.txt

### Spectra
Low-latency delivery of imagery and analytics for time-sensitive retail decisions.
- **Pricing**: Contact for pricing
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/spectra-f302fa/llms.txt

### BlackSky Satellite Imagery
High-revisit, on-demand satellite imagery providing time-diverse images of locations of interest throughout the day.
- **Pricing**: $137,500
- **Free**: No
- **Link**: https://vedex.ai/products/blacksky-satellite-imagery-74a0e7/llms.txt

## Links

- Vedex Profile: https://vedex.ai/vendor/black-sky-0141fc
- Due Diligence: https://vedex.ai/due-diligence/black-sky-0141fc