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📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2018
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Board Member, Investor
Dec 2018
Based in the Netherlands, New Zealand, France and the United States, Dawn Aerospace’s mission is to enable the next generation of space users by providing dramatically more scalable and sustainable ways to access and move around in space. Spaceplane Dawn’s suborbital spaceplanes operate much like a fleet of aircraft, taking off and landing horizontally at airports. The Aurora is a suborbital plane designed to fly 100 km above the Earth and aims to be the first vehicle to access space multiple times per day. An active test flight program of the Aurora spaceplane demonstrator has seen 60+ flights completed. In 2024 the Aurora broke the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.12 at 82,500 feet, and set a record for the fastest climb to 20 kilometers (65,600 feet). In-space propulsion Dawn is now a leading supplier of turnkey green propulsion systems for NanoSat, MicroSat, ESPA, and ESPA Grande-class satellites, as well as actively developing refueling in space with its Loop program. Dawn propulsion technology often achieves superior performance than traditional hydrazine systems by using a unique, green-propellant combination; nitrous oxide and propylene. Having proven this technology on orbit for both CubeSats and small satellites, Dawn propulsion systems have now flown on Electron, Vega, Falcon 9, and Soyuz launchers with over 200 thrusters in space across 50+ satellites and counting.
Board Member
May 2017
Did you know that less than 5% of cyber threats are actually relevant to you? The challenge is what 5%? Get them in Fletch. Fletchs AI engine analyzes the threats coming after companies like yours with the same tech, industries, and geographies. You can finally save time and live ahead of your threats whether it’s traditional vulnerabilities or Ransomware and phishing campaigns.
Board Member
Nov 2014
Airwall is the zero-trust software-defined perimeter for all your things multi-factor authenticated, micro-segmented, encrypted end-to-end, & impervious to lateral movement. www.tempered.io
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2018
Board Member, Investor
Dec 2018
Based in the Netherlands, New Zealand, France and the United States, Dawn Aerospace’s mission is to enable the next generation of space users by providing dramatically more scalable and sustainable ways to access and move around in space. Spaceplane Dawn’s suborbital spaceplanes operate much like a fleet of aircraft, taking off and landing horizontally at airports. The Aurora is a suborbital plane designed to fly 100 km above the Earth and aims to be the first vehicle to access space multiple times per day. An active test flight program of the Aurora spaceplane demonstrator has seen 60+ flights completed. In 2024 the Aurora broke the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.12 at 82,500 feet, and set a record for the fastest climb to 20 kilometers (65,600 feet). In-space propulsion Dawn is now a leading supplier of turnkey green propulsion systems for NanoSat, MicroSat, ESPA, and ESPA Grande-class satellites, as well as actively developing refueling in space with its Loop program. Dawn propulsion technology often achieves superior performance than traditional hydrazine systems by using a unique, green-propellant combination; nitrous oxide and propylene. Having proven this technology on orbit for both CubeSats and small satellites, Dawn propulsion systems have now flown on Electron, Vega, Falcon 9, and Soyuz launchers with over 200 thrusters in space across 50+ satellites and counting.
CommonWise
Board Member @ Co-Founder
Aug 2018
2017
Board Member
May 2017
Did you know that less than 5% of cyber threats are actually relevant to you? The challenge is what 5%? Get them in Fletch. Fletchs AI engine analyzes the threats coming after companies like yours with the same tech, industries, and geographies. You can finally save time and live ahead of your threats whether it’s traditional vulnerabilities or Ransomware and phishing campaigns.
2015
MARTIS VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
President @ Co-Founder
Jan 2015
early stage
2014
Board Member
Nov 2014
Airwall is the zero-trust software-defined perimeter for all your things multi-factor authenticated, micro-segmented, encrypted end-to-end, & impervious to lateral movement. www.tempered.io
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