Founder and Managing Partner at Lightcone Ventures
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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.
Show technical and commercial proof, capital intensity, scale economics, government or industrial customers and the growth milestone requiring specialist capital.
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.