SpaceFund Venture Capital, founded in 2018 and based in Houston, Texas, is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in space technology startups. It focuses on high-growth areas within the space industry, offering financial support and strategic guidance to promising entrepreneurs. SpaceFund's portfolio includes companies like Space Perspective and Axiom Space, and it actively researches the space startup ecosystem to identify emerging markets and investment opportunities. Associated keywords: venture capital, early-stage, space economy, investment fund, startups.
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Rhea Space Activity secured investment from SpaceFund in 2021 to support JAM development.
Megan Crawford is the co-founder of venture capital firm SpaceFund.
Type One Ventures and SpaceFund led the seed round announced in July for Space Forge, an in-space manufacturing company based in the United Kingdom.
SpaceFund’s investment will support the design of an autonomous cislunar surveillance constellation of satellites to track spacecraft operated by U.S. near-peer competitors.
SpaceFund’s capital injection into RSA will support RSA’s development of a Lunar Intelligence (LUNINT) capability aimed to be operational as soon as 2024.
Rick Tumlinson stated that SFI's position alongside SpaceFund uniquely enables access to insights from its team members.
SpaceFund is spinning off a new aerospace strategic consulting company called SpaceFund Intelligence (SFI).
SpaceFund Senior Managing Partner Meagan Crawford leads SpaceFund Intelligence.
SFI builds on the skills and team assembled by SpaceFund while adding high-level experts.
Granatstein assembled and managed the SpaceFund Reality Rating (SFR) databases, which are now an industry standard research source.
Rick Tumlinson is the founder of SpaceFund and part of the leadership team at SFI.
Meagan Crawford is both a Managing Partner of SpaceFund and a consultant for SpaceFund Intelligence.
Crawford believes the collaboration between SFI and SpaceFund enhances their ability to deploy capital efficiently.
The BlastOff Fund will build on SpaceFund’s prior investments and expand the firm’s portfolio with larger investments, including some in later-stage companies.
SpaceFund planned a first close of $5,000,000 for its $20,000,000 BlastOff Fund and surpassed that planned first close.
Commitments to SpaceFund’s BlastOff Fund reached $9,000,000 as of 2021-04-05.
SpaceFund began at the end of 2019 and announced its first LaunchPad fund in the fall of 2019.
SpaceFund was established in 2019 to back space startups through venture capital and private equity.