@SebJohnsonUK@PAVESpace Where software increasingly becomes a commodity - deeptech is of the highest interest and of the most critical nature.
Congrats @PAVESpace!
A Swiss startup has just raised a $40m Seed to develop a new generation of spacecraft!
@PAVESpace is developing spacecraft capable of moving satellites between orbits in under 24 hours.
Today satellites take 6-12 months to reach their target orbit using onboard propulsion.
PAVE is building orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that can move satellites from low Earth orbit to their final operational orbit in less than 24 hours.
And today it has announced raising a $40m seed led by @VisionariesVC (Marton Sarkadi Nagy) and @creandum.
The company also recently opened a dedicated propulsion test facility where PAVE will conduct its first rocket engine firings later this year, and in October the company will have its first in-space demonstration mission!
LETS GO - Swiss tech is flying right now, and it's amazing to see European investors betting big on space tech.
The @ParetoHoldings team is heading to San Francisco March 24–28.
We back the most ambitious early stage founders - $50k-$250k first checks.
@AdzichAnika and I have a few open slots on our calendar.
Building or thinking about it - dm me
European tour is in full swing.
Oxford tomorrow. Cambridge, Dublin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Zürich, Lausanne, Munich, Tallinn to follow.
Undergrads, recent grads, PhDs, young founders. Degrees don't matter. Pace and ambition do.
$50k–$250k first checks - but we aren't just looking for pitches. We're looking for the room.
Full schedule + RSVPs in comments.
We’re hosting events to find the most obsessed founders in person. If you dream about being one of the greats, get in the room.
The Hit List:
- Next 14 days: Edinburgh, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin.
- Late March: Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Tallinn.
US tour is over. Europe is next on the list 🇪🇺
We’re spending the next 4 weeks looking for the most aggressive builders on the continent.
Degrees don’t matter to us. Pace and ambition do.
We’re here to deploy $50k–$250k first checks.
Quick thread.
We've already been to Stanford, MIT, Penn, Harvard, CMU, and Berkeley
Next up: Princeton, Yale, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and more...
We are coming and we want to meet you, dm us