Enlightenment Capital Merges 4 Portfolio Companies to Form Space-Focused Business Auria

Private investment firm Enlightenment Capital has formed a new space-focused business through the merger of its four space and national security portfolio companies.

Boecore, Orbit Logic, Ascension Engineering Group and La Jolla Logic now operate under a single business entity called Auria, which offers deployable software products for space, missile defense and cyber operations, Enlightenment Capital said Monday.

With over 400 employees, Auria develops and delivers capabilities tailored for space domain awareness, orbital warfare training, satellite communications management and cybersecurity.

Tom Dickson, president of Boecore, will lead the newly launched Colorado Springs, Colorado-based company.

“Auria represents the coming together of four special companies under a unified brand and vision that represent the breadth and depth of capabilities that the combined company brings to its customers,” Dickson said.

“Together, Auria is a company of scale with the technology, capabilities, and infrastructure of a mid-tier contractor bringing innovation to the Space sector,” said Thomas Young, principal at Enlightenment Capital.

Enlightenment Capital acquired space and missile defense technology developer Boecore for an undisclosed sum in January 2022. Later that year, Boecore purchased Ascension, a provider of satellite communications engineering platforms for defense and intelligence agencies.

Boecore closed its acquisition of Orbit Logic in February 2023 to build up mission operations and software development capabilities and bought security technology provider La Jolla Logic in May of the same year to offer cybersecurity products and services to Department of Defense customers.

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