Shoaib Iqbal

🚀 Big news! Esper has secured A$5M in seed funding led by Hejaz and Paspalis to revolutionize critical mineral discovery from space.

no bro don’t buy airpods. you need the Sony WH-1000XM5-WHCH720N-WF1000XM5-CH520

I think building a satellite imagery company might be one of the best proving grounds in all of tech: - Space is hard. - Manufacturing is hard. - Capital intensity is hard. - Petabyte-scale data infrastructure is hard. - Selling to defense and intelligence customers domestically is hard. - Selling to defense and intelligence customers internationally is hard. - Running a global, 24/7 service that is life-or-death for your customers is hard. - Long lead times juxtaposed against unpredictable demand shocks is hard. - Export, spectrum, and national security compliance as a startup is hard. - Geopolitical and industrial policy motivated acquisition is hard.

@sethbannon How do we pitch you Seth?

Backing deep tech was smart 5 years ago when it wasn't the meme, you say? It's important to have deep tech expertise, you say? Key is to have built an edge in deep tech, you say?

it's officially that point in ramadan where hunger is no longer the test, it's no sleep

@AI_in_LEO Gets even painful if you go outside the US

i hate the whole "iT's NeVeR bEeN eAsIeR tO rAiSe cApItAl" narrative because that seems to apply exclusively to grifters leveraging the AI hype, whereas: Agriculture innovation -> all-time low Diagnostics (hardware) -> all-time low Biomanufacturing -> all-time low investments your grifts are cannibalizing all available capital, and we won't have anything to eat in eight years; but sure, go raise capital for AI agentic-driven marketing automation for CRMs

Where do the precious metals for the smartphones in our hands actually come from? 🧐 We don’t just talk about metals, we see them using HYPERSPECTRAL imagery! By reading the Earth’s unique signature from 500 km above, we can tell you the exact chemical grade of lithium, cobalt, nickel and more before a single shovel ever hits the ground 🌌 🔥 Target the Source: Skip the guesswork, find high‑grade deposits instantly. 🔍 Verify Integrity: Get the data that proves your supply chain is clean and certain. 🌍 Global Reach: Cold, hard data, straight from orbit to your dashboard. When about three‑quarters of the world’s cobalt comes out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a place where supply chains are as messy as they are critical, you want certainty, not assumptions. Build your brand and grow your company on certainty, not guesswork! Esper. Built for Earth’s Resources 🚀⚡ #earthobservation #spacetech #hyperspectralimagery #innovation #space

Grateful to the team at the University of Auckland for hosting Joey, Jake and Mukul at the National Satellite Test Facility this week 🇳🇿 We had the opportunity to carry out vacuum testing on key components for potential upcoming missions, always a great feeling to see hardware perform under space-simulated conditions. Hot and cold! 🔥❄️ A big thank you to the UoA team for their support, expertise, and world-class facilities. We truly value the collaboration and look forward to what’s ahead 🌌 More to come 🚀 #Esper #Spacetech #Innovation #Hyperspectral #Earthobservation

many such cases in Australia

@ADoricko ❤️

الصوم الأربعيني المبارك ورمضان مبارك من مؤمني راينميكر حول العالم

Ramadan Kareem <3

top reasons to learn urdu/hindi: 1. Dubbed Oggy and the cockroaches

@dirtman Have you moved over to LA?

Shipping a robot and workshop essentials overseas 🇺🇸

@anothercohen Weirdly enough, best summary of events I have seen.

Just in case Gen Z is trying to understand what happened today: Claude was mogging OpenAI for weeks. Then this gymcel dev ships Clawdbot which was the fastest growing OSS thing ever, absolute looksmax for the whole ecosystem. Anthropic tries to dairygoon him with legal. Dev renames to OpenClaw. OpenAI slides in like a foid-pulling Chad with acquisition interest. OpenClaw gets acquired by OpenAI. Now Anthropic is getting jestergooned by the entire timeline and OpenAI is gigamaxing off their fumble. Anthropic could've just let him cook. Instead they went full moid and got outframed by the jestermaxxers at OpenAI.

Read Twitter, get worked up, realize that’s the point, calm down, and move on with my day. Rinse and repeat :)

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Joey and Jake in the cleanroom at Esper's HQ’s, making things happen! 🌌🛰️ We're well into 2026 now and we’re super excited to start sharing some of the innovations taking shape behind the scenes at Esper Satellite Imagery! Big things are coming ☘️ stay tuned! #spacetech #Esper #innovation #space #earthobservation #hyperspectralimagery

RIP Zelenogorsk father to over 35 manuls gone at age 16 (manuls usually live 6-8 years in the wild) a titan among animools

Semiconductors don’t start in clean rooms. They start in the ground 🌎 Esper uses hyperspectral imaging from orbit to identify high-purity silica and rare earth deposits—bringing precision and foresight to the very first step of the chip supply chain. No guesswork. No blind spots. Just visibility, years ahead 🌌🛰️ #Esper #Spacetech #innovation #satellite

This morning, @generalmatter announced that they are reactivating the Hanford site which was core to the Manhattan Project. Now, for an entirely new type of a 'Manhattan Project' - energy. But to search for the fuel to power it is a bottleneck. Australia boasts the largest Uranium reserves globally and @EsperSats is helping mineral explorers find the raw material fuelling the next generation of energy technologies. Reach out discuss your exploration needs.