FILE · vantorOpen-source file · BattlePolicy ProStatus Private, portfolio company of private-equity firm Advent International (majority owner following its 2023 take-private acquisition of Maxar Technologies for approximately $6.4 billion; Maxar then split into Maxar Intelligence and Maxar Space Systems). Reported co-investor/minority backer historically associated with the deal includes Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSPIB) per deal-era reporting, though BattlePolicy could not independently confirm PSPIB's current stake with a fresh 2025/2026 source and flags this as unverified.Unverified
Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence; legal entity Vantor Holdings, Inc.)
Geospatial/satellite intelligence & spatial-analytics platformUSPrivate, portfolio company of private-equity firm Advent International (majority owner following its 2023 take-private acquisition of Maxar Technologies for approximately $6.4 billion; Maxar then split into Maxar Intelligence and Maxar Space Systems). Reported co-investor/minority backer historically associated with the deal includes Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSPIB) per deal-era reporting, though BattlePolicy could not independently confirm PSPIB's current stake with a fresh 2025/2026 source and flags this as unverified.
Vantor is the rebranded successor to Maxar Intelligence — the dominant US commercial satellite-imagery and spatial-intelligence supplier to the American intelligence community and Department of Defense.
Founded
2025 (rebrand); business lineage from Maxar Intelligence (2023) / DigitalGlobe
HQ
Westminster, Colorado, USA
Total raised
N/A — private-equity portfolio company (Advent International take-private of Maxar Technologies, ~$6.4B, 2023), not a venture-funded startup
Stage
Private equity-owned subsidiary/portfolio company
Background
Vantor traces its lineage through Maxar Intelligence and, before that, DigitalGlobe — the commercial satellite operator whose imagery has underpinned decades of US government mapping, ISR, and open-source conflict monitoring. In 2023, private-equity firm Advent International took Maxar Technologies private in an approximately $6.4 billion all-cash deal and subsequently split the company into two units: Maxar Intelligence (imagery/analytics) and Maxar Space Systems (satellite manufacturing).
In October 2025, the two units retired the Maxar name entirely, rebranding as Vantor and Lanteris Space Systems respectively — a move the company frames as the culmination of a multi-year transformation from a pure-play imagery vendor into an end-to-end "spatial intelligence" company fusing sensor data across space, air, and ground.
Vantor is led by CEO Dan Smoot, who joined in November 2023 after previously running Riverbed Technology and holding senior roles at Salesforce and Cisco.
Alongside the rebrand, Vantor launched Tensorglobe, an AI-powered platform intended to fuse imagery and other sensor feeds (electro-optical, SAR, and more) into a unified intelligence picture for defense, intelligence, and commercial customers.
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