Jonathan Lacoste
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Earlier this summer, I shared the exciting news of
@TheSpaceVC
's Fund II.
Today, I’m excited to reveal a few big updates & details:
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36 minutes in...this is one of the most impressive
#CNNTownHall
performances I have ever seen.
Honestly. Incredibly, Presidential.
Former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg takes the stage at CNN's two-night Democratic presidential town hall event, live from Las Vegas. Follow live:
#cnntownhall
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Excited to formally announce that I've joined
@PeteButtigieg
's campaign efforts and am
#TeamPete
!
I've never publically spoken out about politics, but after the past few years, I could no longer stand silently upset on the sidelines and felt compelled to act.
(1/3)
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Every time our party has won the Presidency in the last 60 years, it’s been with a new face on the scene
@PeteButtigieg
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I really wish all VC returns were public
and they had to do quarterly earnings calls to discuss the fundamentals of their portfolio companies
would separate out a ton of pretenders from the real builders
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23% of billion-dollar startups were founded by 20-24 yr-olds - that's why instead of dreaming about it you should stay up late & work for it
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BREAKING: The
#IowaCauscus
has released its National Delegate Totals:
@PeteButtigieg
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@BernieSanders
12
@ewarren
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@JoeBiden
6
@amyklobuchar
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It’s officially a WIN for
#TeamPete
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Email I just received --> "I'm a Republican but I hate Trump, so I'll definitely be supporting
@PeteButtigieg
in 2020."
All are welcome in the
#TeamPete
coalition :-)
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I've been pleasantly surprised by how many friends & connections have reached out this past weekend sharing their mutual support for
@PeteButtigieg
.
We're less than 30 days until the
#IowaCaucus
& looking to kick-off the Democratic Primary season in a big way!
(3/3)
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I am extremely inspired by
@PeteButtigieg
's leadership & believe he offers the best path forward. No politician, or person for that matter, is completely perfect -- but in my humble opinion, Pete is best prepared to lead our country through the challenges ahead.
(2/3)
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“We’re in a race between technological & scientific acceleration vs. societal & political deterioration.”
-
@DavidSacks
, dropping the mic at the end of the pod 👀
🚨mid-week drop!
E32:
- Behind the scenes of
@elonmusk
hosting
@nbcsnl
- CDC skews data on outdoor transmission
- America's real-time UBI experiment
- Besties react to their first hit piece
-
@friedberg
's science corner
🔊:
📺:
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The number of Blockbuster stores in US:
(every 10 years)
1988: 400 stores
1998: 4,195 stores
2008: 4,855 stores
2018: 1 store <-- there's one store left in Oregon now
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Excited to share some big news this morning!
Introducing our next chapter:
@TheSpaceVC
Fund II
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Such a thoughtful & insightful episode.
This is the future of media. I don't want clickbait, sensationalist headlines, or anchors that barely know the topics.
The quality of research & discussion on podcasts like this one is unmatched. Kudos
@Jason
(& the mysterious Nick)
besties are BACK after a multi-week hiatus 🚨
E44:
-- Italy recap
-- Afghanistan embarrassment
-- China's new algo laws
-- Robots, tattletale Bezos & more
🔊:
📺:
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Proud of the amazing event we held tonight for
@PeteButtigieg
w/ 160+ Bostonians packed into the office. The energy is peaking at just the right time — let’s go!!
#TeamPete
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🚨BREAKING🚨
New
@EmersonCollege
Poll just released, including post-debate reactions.
Momentum since Emerson's last Nevada poll...
@PeteButtigieg
+12
@BernieSanders
+11
@ewarren
-10
@JoeBiden
-14
#TeamPete
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Some exciting news to share
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some of the best known VC funds will cease to exist within the decade
several funds in turmoil right now might surprise you
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VCs explaining how geospatial data can be used in the real world 🌎
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Reminder on how big the defense tech opportunity is
@SpaceX
received ~0.2% of the annual DoD budget ('22)
@anduriltech
is not even listed as a Top 100 largest defense contractor yet ('22)
We have a long, long way to go
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No U.S. dollars should be invested in CCP space capabilities. Zero.
Would be equivalent to Sequoia investing in Soviet Union defense tech…during the Cold War 🤦🏼♂️
This is outrageous.
New from me: Chinese subsidiaries of American VC firms have made investments in Chinese space startups, using funds that include US-based pensions and endowments, as the Pentagon warns of China’s growing activity in the space arena.
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tired of incremental software investing
we need more VCs willing to take big swings in critically important industries
defense, space, manufacturing, energy, semiconductors, construction
VCs seem to have forgotten that they are in the risk-capital game..
We literally have to get back to funding the moonshots.
No amount of private banking or private equity fancy excel modeling will take the away the fact that investing in early stage startups carries a massive
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Most important tweet of the evening. Iran Foreign Minister is NOT seeking war, looking for an exit to this conflict.
Watching
@PeteButtigieg
's calm and level-headed response to this crisis the past few days gives us a glimpse into how a real Commander-in-Chief leads
#TeamPete
Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched.
We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression.
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if you’re not embarrassed by who you were 2 years ago,
you’re not growing enough.
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@JeffBezos
Your advocacy for management memos changed how we built our company
It’s something I encourage all our Founders to do now too
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🚨My Next Adventure🚨
Why I'm starting a Space venture capital firm
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Thanks to India's Prime Minister,
@narendramodi
, for recently spending time with our portfolio company
@PixxelSpace
Within the decade, I believe India's space sector will be a force to be reckoned with 💪🇮🇳
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Excited to announce that our portfolio company
@The_TrueAnomaly
has closed a $100M Series B!
One of the most impressive startups in the space & defense industry continues to raise the bar
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People are rewarded in public for the years of hard work they've done in private.
http://t.co/N0otM6dLIo
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@jburnmurdoch
this is a fascinating report
that said, I personally find it too simplistic to frame MeToo as the driver of this divergence
contributing factor? sure
but across so many cultures & countries, it seems young men are simply having a fundamentally different work, life & social
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🚨special announcement
for those in Space, you'll know why we're so excited
thrilled to officially share that
@JeffCrusey
has joined
@TheSpaceVC
as our first Venture Partner
Jeff is one of the industry's best minds, grateful to have him onboard 👏
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Here are the FACTS about last night's
#IowaCaucuses
:
-
@PeteButtigieg
's team released data from 77% of voting precincts that show him winning or getting a close 2nd.
-
@berniesander
's team released data from 40% of voting precincts that show him winning or a very close 2nd (1/4)
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Meet the most interesting founder in India’s burgeoning space industry:
@awaisahmedna
Awais is the rare combination of humble, focused, and brilliant - no surprise
@PixxelSpace
continues to do so well.
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Past 2 days in Detroit for Reindustrialize with amazing VCs & founders 🇺🇸
Thanks to
@aphysicist
,
@austinbishop
&
@MikeSlagh
for organizing & the industry rallying cry 👏🏼
Next year, let’s do it in LA or Austin!
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@CNBC
This headline is based on 250 millennials (1/6th of 1,500 surveyed) that are part of an online research panel...don’t read too much into “research results” you read online, folks.
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In my spare time, I happen to love history 🤓
Here is an educational 🧵on the origins of the U.S. Supreme Court & why the # of Justices has changed 7 times throughout U.S. History
My goal is to spread knowledge & facts 📚
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I’ve been reflecting on
@SpaceX
& Starship’s pricing strategy recently
Have come to believe $100/kg pricing is not imminent in large quantities
And a word of caution to any space startup relying on this for feasibility in the short-term ⚠️
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Something to think about:
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let's scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed 50% of the world's forests. This isn't sustainable.
#EarthDay
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@austin_rief
Clubhouse Summaries -- 15-20 minute audio highlights from a 2-3 hours long conversation. That you can listen to at 1.25x, 1.5x, or 2x speed.
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Thankful to our friends at
@PalantirTech
,
@anduriltech
& others for this effort
We have a generational opportunity to modernize the U.S. industrial base for today's geopolitical challenges
However, we need even more speed & financial on-ramps from DoD
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today is already the 2 year anniversary of
@TheSpaceVC
no long thread or post....just very thankful to all of you that have continued to be part of our journey
still just getting started
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🚨I'm excited to announce that
@TheSpaceVC
has joined an incredible group of VCs with DeepChecks:
DeepChecks is a select group of VCs that specialize in Deep Tech & quickly write $500k-$2M in pre-seed & seed rounds
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U.S. defense primes spend 1-3% of revenue on R&D
Early-stage VC-backed startups invest the vast majority of their capital into R&D 🛠
In a single quarter, vc-backed startups invest more in R&D than the top-10 defense primes spend in two years 🤯
Ryan Tseng,
@shieldaitech
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another VC fund investing in space has made 24 investments
we've made 15 so far...and we have ZERO overlap. zero.
just shows how differently even space VCs are approaching the industry & how many startups there are to choose from when investing
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@Noahpinion
Went on a deep-dive of this the other day
Fun-fact: the €7 per visitor fee will drive €52B for the EU over the next decade
Essentially a massive tariff & data grab on tourists
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excited to continue partnering with
@a16z
team on the next generation of great space, defense & frontier tech startups 👏🇺🇸
congrats
@pmarca
,
@davidu
,
@KTmBoyle
,
@MichelleVolz
,
@rmcentush
& rest of the AD team
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@MaxFosterCNN
Imagine that Zoom invite...no big deal, just a conference call with the Queen and two future Kings 🤴🏼👸🏻
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-There is absolutely no evidence that the
#IowaCaucuses
were hacked or compromised. Speculating it was is WILDLY inappropriate.
-Lastly, the final results will be shared TODAY by
@iowademocrats
. There is a strong paper-trail, the app simply wasn't submitting those totals (3/4)
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It’s hard to focus on anything else besides the tragic news of
#KobeBryant
today...but that
@PeteButtigieg
Town Hall did lift my spirts. I can’t wait for the day to be proud of our President & look to them for leadership again (1/1)
#TeamPete
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Obligatory VC in El Segundo tweet 😅
Only true locals knows what this bad boy is…
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every company will have a Space strategy
few understand
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Some people would love to have our worst days. Trying to maintain more perspective on what's important this year.
Inspired by
@ValaAfshar
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Regulators won’t let Amazon buy a vacuum company
Or Adobe buy a new design tool
but are fine having 5 Defense Primes monopolize the $800B+ budget
Amazon cancels $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot
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Lesson of the day: Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.
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As a VC, even if we pass, I'm almost always still rooting for your success.
I'm naturally an optimist so I'd love for every entrepreneur to succeed.
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Appreciation Post: many of the best VCs move quietly without fanfare
@CJ_Reim
, founding GP at
@amityventures
, is one of those VCs quietly dominating
If you're building in early-stage SaaS, CJ deserves to be one of your first calls 👏
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the entire defense tech VC ecosystem is in DC the next few days 🏛️
@TheSpaceVC
will be hosting a special dinner tonight for industry friends
- 102 confirmed VC/PE firms
- 100+ military units
- MANY startups & Defense Curious™ 2nd or 3rd time founders considering BUIDL'n defense startups (an awesome trend to witness in real-time)
I am overjoyed/optimistic/overwhelmed by the momentum at the intersection of Defense &
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You could buy
@BlackSky_Inc
,
@SpireGlobal
,
@momentusspace
,
@RedwireSpace
&
@Astra
for $680M combined! 😐
Poor cash flow & margins while still in heavy R&D phase
The next cohort of space startups to go public will require years of proven revenue & mature biz models to succeed
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-My final prediction based on everything we know as of 9:18AM EST:
1A -
@PeteButtigieg
~25%
1B -
@BernieSanders
~25%
3rd -
@ewarren
~21%
4a -
@JoeBiden
~14%
4b -
@amyklobuchar
~13
(4/4)
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Thrilled to announce
@TheSpaceVC
's latest investment is coming out of stealth this morning
The world of geospatial data has incredible potential, but is frustratingly limited by its lack of accessibility
We believe Search is at the core of solving this problem
Introducing
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🚨 busy day for massive portfolio announcements!
Excited to share that our portfolio company
@hubble_network
has become the 1st company in history to connect to a satellite....using bluetooth 📶
Here's why this is a big deal:
1/21🧵
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this weekend,
@JeffCrusey
& I closed our next investment for
@TheSpaceVC
we genuinely believe they’ll be one of America’s most important startups this next decade🇺🇸
cannot wait to share more 🔥
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My latest
@inc
article: 7 trends CMOs can't ignore in 2016 - including personalization, micro-moments & VR
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Woah,
@Jai__Malik
, getting a surprise shoutout on the
@theallinpod
from
@DavidSacks
Jai, you realize this is the VC equivalent of getting an Oscar, right? 😉
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Another one 🎤
Excited to share that our portfolio company
@XonaSpace
has closed a $19M Series A led by the wonderful
@FutureJurvetson
! 🚀
Our GPS is at risk and we need commercial solutions, here's why: 🧵
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Respected defense tech founder listed his favorite VCs, which included
@kleinerperkins
@generalcatalyst
@sequoia
@foundersfund
@a16z
@Lux_Capital
@lightspeedvp
and
@TheSpaceVC
🔥
.
@alexiskold
and
@davidu
/
@KTmBoyle
have indeed been doing a great job investing in defense/public safety, but I would be remiss if I didn't mention folks like
@josh_coyne
@ravirajjain
@ekriessmann
@AlexaLiautaud
@lacostejonathan
@DavidCahn6
@zebulgar
@traestephens
@breeves08
who
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This is what momentum looks like folks!
#TeamPete
*is now the only candidate to have endorsements from sitting members of Congress in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
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Congrats to my youngest brother, Sergeant Lacoste!
Today, he celebrated his official Oath of Enlistment ceremony to
@USArmy
The flag in the background was our grandfather’s burial flag in honor of his service to the country 🇺🇸🫡
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the unwinding of '19-'21 sky-high valuations for growth stage in space tech will take some time
Where might they fall? Here's one small example:
@RocketLab
has launched 18 customer missions since beg of 2022. In '22, they reported $211M in revenue & in '23 are on pace for
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-ACRONYM, the parent company of SHADOW, the tech company that made the app, provided many services, including SMS, CRM, and other marketing tools.
-MANY campaigns purchased software from ACRONYM, including the
@texasdemocrats
,
@JoeBiden
,
@PeteButtigieg
, &
@SenGillibrand
(2/4)
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until then, the important work continues:
-educate fortune 500 buyers on how to use EO
-simplify DoD/NGA purchase process (good luck, i know)
-new tools for better data processing, fusion, & searchability
-more end-apps for non-technical users
-solve problems, not raw data
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Very excited to share
@danti_ai
's new $5M seed round & what
@jkallman85
&
@mnicks3
have been building
It's great to partner again with our friends at
@ShieldCapVC
! Pumped to have
@lpolovets
&
@humbavc
join too
Here's why we're so excited: 1/10🧵
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very thankful to a few partners today who have wired millions to cover payroll on Monday
reputations are made in moments like these 🙏🏻
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founders, reminder to write & send a 2023 recap to VCs, angels & advisors
-Top company wins from this past year
-Biggest current challenges
-3 ways investors can help
start 2024 with momentum & some help from the people in your corner
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Great seeing so many Twitter & space folks IRL tonight - thx
@a16z
for hosting the American Dynamism summit
@MichelleVolz
@bznotes
@itsmoislam
@rmcentush
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@HustleFundVC
🛰
@TheSpaceVC
🌱 Pre-Seed to Series A
💰 $100k-$500k
✉️ DM me
💸Most recent wire: today
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Looks like people enjoy the digital marketing 🔑's ! Thanks for inclusion on the top 100 influencers list
.
@Onalytica
LOVE the influencer report you just shared! Pretty proud to see
@lacostejonathan
&
@Jebbit
on there, too
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Austin & Los Angeles🤝
quickly becoming the center of gravity for U.S. defense, space & manufacturing tech startups
Founders & VCs need to be spending more time in both ecosystems
gm to
@FirehawkAero
and
@modern_ai
and
@umbraspace
and
@Picogrid
and
@Mach_Industries
and all the other defense tech companies doing what’s necessary—though dismissed at a point—yet still here, to keep America numero uno 🙏🏾
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for new VC managers or ppl wanting to learn about VC
highly recommend you check out
i've personally been using their resources as we build
@TheSpaceVC
; tremendously helpful 👏
thx to
@rrhoover
,
@vedikaja_in
+
@weekendfund
team for doing the legwork🙏
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A 🧵 I’ve been thinking about recently:
The Space industry is in a great moment of “Customer Exploration” 🔭
Our main customers have historically been other space companies, the primes, or gov’t
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You did not wake up today to be mediocre. Even if it's a Monday. Seize the day!
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just wired for new
@TheSpaceVC
investment 👀
stealth mode — defense tech — incredible founder
excited to share more when we can! in the meantime, time to build 🫡
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this afternoon's
@SpaceX
Transporter-10 launch is a big one for the
@TheSpaceVC
portfolio!
@The_TrueAnomaly
's first 2 Jackal AOVs to help deter & protect the space domain
@LoftOrbital
's YAM-6 purpose built for AI use cases
@hubble_network
's first satellite powering bluetooth
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Yesterday,
@NASA
& the
@SpaceForceDoD
released a "State of the Space Industry" report.
I read the 124 pgs last night so you wouldn't have to
A thread:
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thanks to the whole medical staff at Park City & SLC University Hospital 🙏🏻
Unfortunately, got in a bad ski incident yesterday & shattered my left arm
On bright side: who says you need two arms to invest in America’s future 😅
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another amazing, energizing day in El Segundo/LA 🔥
✅ visited 3 portfolio companies, 2 in huge new facilities
✅ lunch & dinner with incredible VC friends & co-investors
✅ met with several high-potential founding teams we’re leaning in with
✅
@lightspeedvp
frontier tech
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doing diligence on a space company
they list a few customers in their deck & touted $ bookings — I called one.
Signed a non-binding LOI, nothing guaranteed. Haven’t spent $ to date and still exploring competitors.
For founders looking to fundraise, I wouldn’t recommend this 🙅🏼♂️
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❤️ you
#TeamPete
Putting party before ego.
An historic campaign and a huge step forward 🏳️🌈
You’ll be hearing from us and
@PeteButtigieg
again in the future.
In the meantime...Uncle
@JoeBiden
, time to get to work 👊🏻
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It's damn hard to build any startup, let alone in space 🚀🛰️
On this International Women’s Day, I’d like to give a special shout-out to all the women building Space Tech startups 👏
Here's a list we put together of all the incredible women leading startups in Space Tech:
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