Founder and Managing Partner
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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-industrialization, physical AI, advanced compute and defense.
Civilization-scale companies with hard technical moats, capital-intensive commercialization and the potential to become foundational infrastructure.
The firm is built for deep-tech growth capital; conventional software and companies outside the physical economy are less aligned.
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Kam Ghaffarian is listed by Lightcone Ventures as Founder and Managing Partner. Deep-tech founder behind SGT, Axiom Space, Intuitive Machines, X-energy and Quantum Space.