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We are an early-stage VC fund backing founders reinventing the most critical industries, from deep sea to deep space.

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Starfish Space
Starfish Space@StarfishSpace·
We see you! Otter Pup 2 has acquired @GilmourSpace's ElaraSat. Acquisition is the moment Otter Pup 2 first detects and begins tracking its client spacecraft using its onboard cameras and computer vision, rather than relying on navigation inputs from the ground. Here's the view from approximately 6.5 km away, captured during our ongoing relative navigation operations. This is the first time an Otter Pup mission has reached this milestone and marks a major step forward in our docking mission.
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Lunar Outpost
Lunar Outpost@LunarOutpostInc·
🚨 New Mission Alert: Lunar Outpost Europe Joins Moonraker Moon Mapping Mission for the European Space Agency 🚨 Lunar Outpost is joining mission prime @NUVIEWspace GmbH as part of the team developing Moonraker, a lunar LiDAR mission targeted for launch in 2030. Selected by the European Space Agency as part of a Phase A study under the Small Missions initiative, Moonraker will use LiDAR to map the lunar surface. High-fidelity surface maps generated by Moonraker directly increase the likelihood of successful lunar landings and assist mobility platforms in safe, efficient traversal planning. As the Thermal Design and Model-Based Systems Engineering lead, Lunar Outpost's team in Luxembourg is developing novel thermal management solutions for Moonraker to withstand the extreme temperature swings in low lunar orbit. Read more: lunaroutpost.com/post/lunar-out… @esa #LunarOutpost #DrivingArtemis #TheNextLeap #SpaceTech #Innovation
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Taylor Sargent
Taylor Sargent@TaylorCSargent·
@IndustriousVC 🤝 Arkaea Media At "Space, Defense & Capital Out East" in the Hamptons this week, I had the opportunity to moderate a discussion on emerging opportunities, exploring how advances in space and other industrial infrastructure are enabling the next generation of aerospace companies to service commercial and defense customers. One theme that continues to stand out is how space is becoming the foundation for new markets. As capabilities like navigation, mobility, communications, logistics, and space domain awareness mature, they are expanding what is commercially and strategically possible on the ground, in orbit, and on other planetary bodies. Most of these opportunities were difficult to imagine and impossible to build a decade ago. Thank you to my fellow panelists for a thoughtful discussion, and to everyone who joined us from across our portfolio, family offices, and the institutional investment community.
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Lunar Outpost
Lunar Outpost@LunarOutpostInc·
NASA has selected Lunar Outpost's proposal to advance Starweave in support of the agency’s goals to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and enable human exploration of Mars. Under NASA’s Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity (ACO), Lunar Outpost will mature Starweave: a distributed software layer that enables heterogeneous robotic systems and spacecraft to operate as autonomous, coordinated fleets. Starweave scales and accelerates complex operations in extreme GPS-denied environments, delivering decentralized decision-making, mesh networking, and autonomous coordination. @NASA #TheNextLeap #LunarOutpost #DrivingArtemis #SpaceTech #Innovation
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Industrious Ventures
Industrious Ventures@IndustriousVC·
Yesterday, we were proud to partner with Arkaea Media Group to co-host Space, Defense & Capital Out East in the Hamptons. The event brought together leaders from across the aerospace, defense, investment, and family office communities for thoughtful conversations on the technologies, companies, and capital shaping the next generation of industrial capability. Thank you to everyone who joined us. We look forward to continuing the conversation.
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Bridgit Mendler
Bridgit Mendler@bridgitmendler·
It’s exciting to finally announce what Northwood has been working on behind the scenes – the newest addition to our network, Prism, which will support high throughput comms through space. When we first founded Northwood, the pressing problem in front of us was the sheer volume of spacecraft that needed to be coordinated and successfully operate in a new dynamic environment. This led to our first offering, Portal, which has changed spacecraft link access on many important dimensions. We can now fit the equivalent of ten 7.4 meter dishes, providing multi-orbit link capacity, into a single 20ft ISO shipping container that can be manufactured in weeks, shipped over air freight, and stood up in hours. A capacity shortfall that looked like it would take years to resolve now has a solution for how to hit scale. Our second offering is about envisioning the next set of challenges for space. As more of our economy moves to orbit, we need to design networking that meets or beats terrestrial performance. Prism is designed for the next step in expectations around throughput, latency and reliability. This is true industrialization of space networks. Our solution here was also baked from first principles — a mixture of old and new. Northwood’s vision for high throughput networking is high frequency RF (today meeting customers in S/X/Ka, and in next version will be 100gbps+), a standard 2.4 meter building block that deploys in hours and can be digitally combined to adjust for different orbits and resiliency conditions (need to keep piping data to customers when it’s raining? We got you). The real thing I want to celebrate is the pace of development that Northwood continues to set. In 2.5 years, we have: - Sprinted through three block changes of Portal - Gone from clean sheet to deployed Prism unit in 6 months - Deployed a total of 14 antennas across 2 continents, at 5 sites with another 13 sites across 8 countries underway These accomplishments are our data points that there’s no space networking problem too big for us and the best is yet to come! Huge shoutout to Mariko McMurty and Kiran Raj who each lead a portion of our Prism product and the whole of company effort across digital, RF/EE, mechanical, manufacturing and production, supply chain and logistics, sites and network operations. Let’s keep building!
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Northwood@NorthwoodSpace

Today we're expanding our network to support the things spacecraft actually need to do now: high-volume enterprise backhaul, direct-to-cellular communications, compute in space. northwoodspace.io/blog/prismhigh…

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Industrious Ventures
Industrious Ventures@IndustriousVC·
We're pleased to welcome Lt. Gen. John Shaw (U.S. Space Force, Ret.) as an Advisor to Industrious Ventures. Over a 35-year career spanning the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office, and U.S. Space Command, Lt. Gen. Shaw helped shape the doctrine, strategy, and capabilities that define the modern space domain. Lt. Gen. Shaw will bring his perspective on operational requirements, emerging mission needs, and the evolution of the space domain to our team and portfolio companies. We're honored to have his counsel as we continue backing founders building the next generation of national capability and industrial infrastructure. Read the full announcement: 🔗prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
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Industrious Ventures@IndustriousVC·
Happy Friday! A few headlines from across the i(v) portfolio this (very busy) month: • Lunar Outpost secured a $220M NASA contract for its Pegasus Lunar Terrain Vehicle and raised an oversubscribed $30M Series B. • Voyager Technologies won a $16.5M DARPA contract. • Antares secured long-term HALEU supply through a partnership with Urenco. • Stoke Space moved into live flight hardware testing in Moses Lake. • Solestial, Inc. signed an acquisition agreement with York Space Systems. • Starfish Space announced the docking partner for its upcoming Otter Pup 2 mission. • Amca announced a $300M Series B. • Turion Space was identified as a performer supporting the Space Force's space-based interceptor effort. Congratulations to the founders and teams advancing some of the most important sectors shaping the future of national capability and industrial infrastructure.
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Industrious Ventures@IndustriousVC·
Congrats to @LunarOutpostInc on @NASA selecting Pegasus under the agency’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract, marking the first human-rated lunar mobility system since Apollo! Ad lunam! → spacenews.com/nasa-selects-f…
Lunar Outpost@LunarOutpostInc

Artemis Astronauts, meet your new ride: Pegasus. @NASA has selected Lunar Outpost's Pegasus for a High Achievability Mission task order under its Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services (LTVS) contract, marking the first human-rated mobility on the Moon since Apollo. This award confirms Lunar Outpost’s leading role as the next generation mobility and infrastructure provider to advance permanent lunar operations. The Lunar Outpost Pegasus LTV provides critical surface mobility for Astronauts operating at the Moon’s South Pole, expanding how far and long crews can traverse and operate on the lunar surface. Pegasus is designed to support a range of mission profiles, including site exploration, foundational science operations, resource prospecting, and surface site preparation as NASA lays the groundwork for a permanent human presence on the Moon by 2030. The development of Pegasus was led by Lunar Outpost, in partnership with collaborators @GM, @goodyear, and @LeidosInc. The team combines proven heritage with decades of experience in advanced engineering, automotive industrialization, and human spaceflight. Read more: lunaroutpost.com/post/nasa-sele… #TheNextLeap #LunarOutpost #DrivingArtemis #SpaceTech #Innovation

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Taylor Sargent
Taylor Sargent@TaylorCSargent·
A friend recently gifted me these NASA Apollo-inspired Nikes. There’s a quote on the heel that says, “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” With NASA sharing more details on the Moon Base this afternoon, today feels like the right time to break these in.
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Jai Malik
Jai Malik@jaimalik·
I'm excited to announce that @AmcaInc has raised a $300M Series B at a >$1B valuation, led by @CaffeinatedCap with major support from @LightspeedVP, @a16z, @Lux_Capital, and others. We're on a mission to reconstitute a supply chain that has too often put profit over country.
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Industrious Ventures@IndustriousVC·
Congratulations to @SolestialSpace on its announced acquisition by @YorkSpaceSystem. As spacecraft production scales, resilient manufactured power systems are becoming increasingly important. We're proud to have supported the Solestial team and excited for this next chapter.
Solestial, Inc.@SolestialSpace

We are thrilled to announce that @YorkSpaceSystem has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Solestial. Solestial will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of York and continue to serve a broad range of external commercial and government customers. bit.ly/49BEISY

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Stoke Space
Stoke Space@stoke_space·
Testing is LIVE in Moses Lake, for both our Stage 1 structure and Zenith engines. Proud of the teams who are working relentlessly to drive us forward on the road to launch.🛣️🚀
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Industrious Ventures@IndustriousVC·
We’re proud to lead @LunarOutpostInc's $30M Series B as the team scales mobility, robotics, and autonomous systems for sustained lunar operations. As Artemis accelerates, mobility is becoming foundational infrastructure for activity beyond Earth. Congrats to the entire team ↓
Lunar Outpost@LunarOutpostInc

We are excited to announce a $30M Series B led by @IndustriousVC, with participation from @TypeOneVC, @EniacVC, Reliable Equity, @PromusVentures, @endeavor_global, and others to accelerate the critical industrial mobility layer required for a Moon Base. “Lunar Outpost is moving beyond early missions to scaled, repeatable deployment,” said @TaylorCSargent, Partner at Industrious Ventures. “They’ve proven they can build for one of the most challenging environments imaginable, with significant demand across government programs and commercial customers. They are building the systems that will be relied on again and again as we return to the Moon, set our sights on Mars, and build a robust space economy.” The Series B builds on a strong foundation of financial success and market validation. Lunar Outpost has doubled its revenue each year for the past four years and secured eight fully contracted lunar and cislunar missions. Lunar Outpost has consistently delivered ahead of schedule on aggressive timelines, with multiple systems already delivered and deployed. Combined with a strong cadence of government and commercial contracts, the new financing ensures the company is well-positioned as it executes on its rapidly expanding mission portfolio. Read more: lunaroutpost.com/post/lunar-out… #TheNextLeap #LunarOutpost #DrivingArtemis #SpaceTech #Innovation

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