California-born satellite communications firm Skyloom plants flag in Broomfield

BROOMFIELD — In an effort to tap into Colorado’s talent pipeline, the rapidly growing satellite communications firm Skyloom Global Corp. has moved its headquarters from Oakland, California, to Broomfield. 

Skyloom, which is developing technology that it describes as “orbital infrastructure for fiberless internet,” is building out manufacturing and office space in Broomfield’s Interlocken business park.

The company, with more than 100 workers and hopes to roughly double its workforce in the next year or so, has won contracts with government and military agencies, “which really drove the need to expand,” Eric Moltzau, Skyloom’s newly hired chief commercial officer, told BizWest. “The area…