You download an app, you tap a button, and a Bluetooth beacon in a shipping container somewhere in the Port of Los Angeles sends a packet of data. The packet doesn't go to your phone. It goes to a gateway you've never seen, owned by someone you've never met, and from there, into a cloud dashboard. Hubble Network's bet is that it can make that assumption true, everywhere, by turning the world's smartphones and routers into its own private network.
It starts with a simple premise: what if every Bluetooth device could talk to the internet, from anywhere, without a cellular modem? The answer, according to Hubble, is a two-layer network. The first is terrestrial, a sprawling mesh of software-enabled gateways. The second, still to come, is a constellation of satellites listening for Bluetooth signals from orbit. The company claims its terrestrial layer is already live, powered by more than 90 million integrated access points [hubble.com]. For developers, the promise is a single API that abstracts away the physical layer, letting a temperature sensor in a refrigerated truck or a tracking tag on a construction tool report its status from a city street or a remote highway.
The founder's second network
The ambition is vast, but the founding team carries the kind of credibility that makes investors listen. CEO Alex Haro co-founded Life360, the family location-tracking app, and led it through an IPO to over 88 million monthly active users [13][14][20]. His co-founders bring complementary, hardware-deep expertise. Ben Wild, the CTO, founded Iotera, a pioneer in long-range IoT connectivity that was acquired by Ring in 2017 [10][11][12]. John Kim, the Chief Space Officer, is an aerospace engineer with experience in spacecraft systems at SSL (Maxar) [15][16].
From sandbox to satellite
Hubble's go-to-market strategy is a developer-first playbook. It begins with a free sandbox, where engineers can test using a mobile app as a local gateway [hubble.com]. When they're ready to deploy, they upgrade to the live network, which Hubble says connects them to those tens of millions of gateways [hubble.com]. Pricing starts with 100 free devices, scaling to enterprise plans for thousands [hubble.com/pricing]. The technical milestone that underpins the satellite ambition is significant: in May 2024, Hubble announced it had established the first Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite. By early 2025, it had launched its first satellites and successfully tested the space-based link [35][36].
Early partnerships signal the industrial use cases it's chasing. A deal with Link Labs focuses on global asset tracking beyond facility walls [38][42]. Another, with InPlay Inc., targets sub-$1 global tracking for smart labels and cold chain monitoring. A partnership with Silicon Labs integrates the MG24 chip, and a collaboration with Haro's former company, Life360, provides a ready-made terrestrial footprint.
| Founder | Role | Key Background |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Haro | Co-Founder & CEO | Co-founded Life360 (IPO, 88M+ MAUs) |
| Ben Wild | Co-Founder & CTO | Founded Iotera (acquired by Ring) |
| John Kim | Co-Founder & Chief Space Officer | Spacecraft systems at SSL (Maxar) |
The execution cliff
For all its promise, Hubble Network faces a gauntlet of execution risks. The terrestrial network's scale, cited as over 90 million gateways, is a central claim that is difficult for an outsider to verify. The business model relies on a two-sided network effect: developers need reliable, ubiquitous coverage to build, and coverage needs a massive, dispersed install base of gateways.
The capital intensity is another pressure point. The company has raised substantial funding, including a $20 million Series A led by Transpose Platform in 2023 and a $70 million Series B in 2025 [25][26][29][30]. This war chest is necessary for launching satellites and scaling operations. The planned 60-satellite constellation represents a long-term, capital-heavy bet that must be deployed before the full value proposition is realized [SpaceNews].
The next connectivity layer
The next twelve months for Hubble will be defined by a shift from proving the technology to proving the business. Key milestones to watch include the expansion of its satellite constellation, the announcement of flagship enterprise customers moving out of pilot, and any new partnerships that embed its connectivity into widely used hardware platforms. Hubble Network is not just selling connectivity. It is selling a new default. For decades, adding internet to a device meant adding cost, power draw, and complexity. Hubble's implicit question is whether the world has reached a point of Bluetooth saturation where the modem itself becomes the legacy technology.