Best VCs for Space Technology

Founding Partner & Managing Director

Khosla Ventures

Samir prefers large, known markets where a radical technical risk can produce a 10x-better product. He treats small seed checks as option-value experiments: identify a potential billion-dollar outcome

Managing Partner

Paradigm

Alana co-leads a research- and builder-led strategy that backs ambitious technical founders from first check through public markets. Paradigm began in crypto and now targets the fastest-moving technol

Investment Manager

Maki.vc (Web3)

Wilson sources and evaluates Nordic first-round opportunities across Maki's sector-agnostic mandate, with a research-driven lens and responsibility for ESG development. His first publicly attributed 2

General Partner

Maki.vc (Web3)

Paavo backs Nordic deep-tech founders at their first institutional round when a radical scientific or engineering advance can overhaul an industry. He requires a credible technical foundation, balance

Principal

Kleiner Perkins

Lucas invests in enterprise software and cybersecurity across early and growth stages. His portfolio connects foundation models, data and enterprise AI, open-source software security, managed security

Office Manager

FUSE

Carmen Ballagan is listed in a Office Manager capacity at FUSE. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the f

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Adrian is an early-stage generalist whose prior portfolio and advisory work span fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, defense, productivity, and frontier technologies. His biography emphasizes

Partner

Khosla Ventures

Katie works at the company-formation boundary, incubating and backing early deep-tech and consumer ideas. Her experience spans satellites, AI research, consumer-company formation, entertainment partne

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Rob has historically backed founders pushing beyond existing market boundaries, including Uber, Square, Mint, eero, Gnip, and Planet Labs. His founder lens prizes CEOs who can move fluidly between a c

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Roy spends most of his First Round time in healthcare, applying three decades of product, innovation, and care-delivery experience to companies that can materially improve lives. He favors practical e

Operating Partner

FUSE

John Connors invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the in

Operating Partner

FUSE

Satbir Khanuja invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the

Operating Partner

FUSE

Bobby Wagner invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the in

Chief Financial Officer

FUSE

Ryan Baker is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at FUSE. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses t

Principal

Indico Capital

João evaluates Southern European technology companies through a combined engineering, investment-banking, private-equity and venture lens. The documented firm mandate favors globally ambitious founder

Principal

Indico Capital

Rui brings long-running Portuguese institutional venture experience to Indico's early-stage Southern European technology mandate. Public evidence supports a broad rather than narrow personal sector re

Partner

Indico Capital

Rui combines venture investing with transaction and corporate-finance discipline. Within Indico's mandate, that supports globally ambitious Southern European technology companies from early validation

Founder and Managing Partner

Lightcone Ventures

Kam Ghaffarian invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-ind

Founding Partner

Lightcone Ventures

Anton Brevde invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-indus

Founding Partner

Lightcone Ventures

Brad Pruente invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-indus

Founding Partner

Lightcone Ventures

Daniel Narea invests or supports investments through Lightcone Ventures's published strategy: Provide growth capital to physical-world deep-tech companies advancing resource abundance, space, re-indus

Managing Partner

DeepWork Capital

Ben Patz is part of DeepWork Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back seed and Series A technology a

Managing Partner

DeepWork Capital

Kathy Chiu is part of DeepWork Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back seed and Series A technology

Managing Partner

DeepWork Capital

Mitchel Laskey is part of DeepWork Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back seed and Series A techno

Vice President

DeepWork Capital

Ken Hall is part of DeepWork Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back seed and Series A technology a

Venture Partner

DeepWork Capital

Jackson Streeter, MD is part of DeepWork Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back seed and Series A

Associate

DeepWork Capital

Kristopher Lancaster is part of DeepWork Capital's current team. No narrower person-specific investment mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Back seed and Series A

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Type One Ventures

Abdo John Hajj is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space an

General Partner

Type One Ventures

Sanjeev Gordhan is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space a

General Partner - APAC

Type One Ventures

Warren Hui is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and fr

Partner

Type One Ventures

Ryan Kriser is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and f

Partner, Head of Japan

Type One Ventures

Ryutaro Hiroshima is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space

General Counsel & Chief of Staff

Type One Ventures

Nina Mahmoudpour is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space

Principal

Type One Ventures

Daniil Chen is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and f

Principal

Type One Ventures

Avantika Gupta is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space an

Principal

Type One Ventures

Gustav Spangberg is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space

Director of Frontier Strategy

Type One Ventures

Omar Pimentel is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and

Director of Investor Relations - Japan

Type One Ventures

Yuki Nakamura is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and

Director - APAC

Type One Ventures

Daphne Zhao is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and f

Head of Middle East

Type One Ventures

Yasser Mestarihi is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space

Head of Media

Type One Ventures

Cynthia Jean Kember is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building spa

Head of Research

Type One Ventures

Jacob Flores is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and

Finance and Operations Associate

Type One Ventures

Adam Sanchez is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and

Media & Operations Associate

Type One Ventures

Serena Bard is part of Type One Ventures's current team. No narrower person-specific mandate is published, so this profile uses the firm's official strategy: Partner with founders building space and f

Managing Director

RPM Ventures

Adam Boyden invests or supports investments through RPM Ventures's published strategy: Apply a whole-team, partner-led approach and deep sector relationships to revolutionary businesses in financial s

Chief Financial Officer

RPM Ventures

Tony Grover is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at RPM Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction an

Managing Director

RPM Ventures

Marc Weiser invests or supports investments through RPM Ventures's published strategy: Apply a whole-team, partner-led approach and deep sector relationships to revolutionary businesses in financial s

Chief of Staff

RPM Ventures

Adriana Motte is listed in a Chief of Staff capacity at RPM Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and uses

Venture Partner

RPM Ventures

Thomas Zurbuchen invests or supports investments through RPM Ventures's published strategy: Apply a whole-team, partner-led approach and deep sector relationships to revolutionary businesses in financ

Partner

RPM Ventures

Brad Lichota invests or supports investments through RPM Ventures's published strategy: Apply a whole-team, partner-led approach and deep sector relationships to revolutionary businesses in financial

Partner

E2MC

Peter Ruderman invests or supports investments through E2MC's published strategy: Invest globally at pre-seed and seed in ambitious companies with a meaningful space angle, excluding jurisdictions adv

Founding Partner

E2MC

Raphael Roettgen invests or supports investments through E2MC's published strategy: Invest globally at pre-seed and seed in ambitious companies with a meaningful space angle, excluding jurisdictions a

Partner

E2MC

Raghu Das invests or supports investments through E2MC's published strategy: Invest globally at pre-seed and seed in ambitious companies with a meaningful space angle, excluding jurisdictions adversar

Principal

E2MC

Brandon Kortokrax invests or supports investments through E2MC's published strategy: Invest globally at pre-seed and seed in ambitious companies with a meaningful space angle, excluding jurisdictions

Analyst Intern

E2MC

Rakhee Khambhati invests or supports investments through E2MC's published strategy: Invest globally at pre-seed and seed in ambitious companies with a meaningful space angle, excluding jurisdictions a

Analyst

E2MC

Daniel Sheth invests or supports investments through E2MC's published strategy: Invest globally at pre-seed and seed in ambitious companies with a meaningful space angle, excluding jurisdictions adver

Senior Advisor

E2MC

Evren Ucok is listed in a Senior Advisor capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the firm's

Senior Advisor

E2MC

Anders Johnson is listed in a Senior Advisor capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the fi

Advisor, Space Technology

E2MC

Sigrid Elschot is listed in a Advisor, Space Technology capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and

Advisor, Biotech

E2MC

Carolina Alarco is listed in a Advisor, Biotech capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the

Advisor, Space Technology

E2MC

Justin Karl is listed in a Advisor, Space Technology capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and use

Advisor, Asia, Space and Biotech

E2MC

Soyeon Yi is listed in a Advisor, Asia, Space and Biotech capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction an

Advisor, Startups

E2MC

Guillermo Soehnlein is listed in a Advisor, Startups capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and use

Executive Assistant

E2MC

Kelli Rodrigues is listed in a Executive Assistant capacity at E2MC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses

General Partner

FUSE

Cameron Borumand invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and th

General Partner

FUSE

Kellan Carter invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the i

General Partner

FUSE

Brendan Wales invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the i

Principal

FUSE

Zane Khatib invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the inf

Senior Associate

FUSE

Brooke Borseth invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the

Analyst

FUSE

Samarth Gandhi invests or supports investments through FUSE's published strategy: Back ambitious founders from the earliest days across enterprise and vertical AI, robotics, healthcare, space and the

Platform Lead

FUSE

Emily Harrison is listed in a Platform Lead capacity at FUSE. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses the fir

Investor

Craft Ventures

Taylor backs frontier systems and software, with a strong interest in physical AI and resilient infrastructure. His Xona thesis illustrates the pattern: a strategically critical legacy system faces te

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Sky backs hard-technology companies that extend connectivity and intelligence into the physical world. His company-building history—from EarthLink and Boingo to Swarm, Ring, and Joby—supports a lens c

Venture Partner

Craft Ventures

Bill invests from repeated founder experience at the emergence of new technology and consumer behavior. His official record spans early internet communities, mobile games and virtual goods, institutio

Investor Relations

Lightcone Ventures

Nick Dane is listed in a Investor Relations capacity at Lightcone Ventures. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; the profile preserves that role distinction and