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The Space Capital Podcast
by Chad Anderson
Space Capital Podcast, the playbook for investing in the space economy, is hosted by Chad Anderson, founder and Managing Partner of Space Capital, the world's leading seed-stage venture capital firm investing in the space economy. Listen for unique insights into startup activity and investment trends from the founders and innovators at the forefront.
Episodes
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Space IQ: Q4 2025 Review
Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q4 2025 Space IQ Report: our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. For the last decade, the space economy has been defined by promise. In the next decade, it will be...
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Space IQ: Q2 2025 Review
Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q2 2025 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital's Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results published in…
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Space IQ: Q1 2025 Review
Chad Anderson, Managing Partner of Space Capital dives into the highlights of Q1 2025 and reflect on a transformative quarter for the space economy. From record investments and the rise of AI-powered geospatial intelligence, we explore the trends shaping the future of the space economy.…
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Space IQ: Q4 2024 Review
Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q4 2024 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital's Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results published in…
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Space IQ: Q3 2024 Review
Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q3 2024 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital's Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results published in…
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From Niche to Ubiquitous - the $1.8 Trillion space economy
In this episode of The Space Capital Podcast, host Chad Anderson delves into the burgeoning space economy with Nikolai Khlystov, lead for space at the World Economic Forum. Together, they explore the findings of a groundbreaking report that projects the space economy to reach a staggering $1.8...
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Starship: The Next Giant Leap
In the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, the team at Space Capital, including our former intern Tycho Bogdanowitsch, discusses the significant impact of SpaceX's Starship on the space economy, emphasizing its unprecedented capabilities and the challenges it presents. The conversation...
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Space IQ: Q2 2024 Review
Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q2 2024 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital Partners, Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results...
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Space IQ: Q1 2024 Review
Welcome to the newest episode of the Space Capital Podcast, where we will review the Q1 2024 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital Partners, Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results...
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Space IQ: Q4 2023 Review
In the newest episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast and this is the Q4 2023 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. Space Capital Partners, Chad Anderson and Justus Kilian are going to walk through the results...
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Kayhan and the future of space traffic management
Chad Anderson, Founder and Managing Partner at Space Capital, has a discussion with Siamak Hesar and Araz Feyzi, co-founders of Kayhan Space. Kayhan Space specializes in automation for satellite operations and space flight safety.
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Networked GPS and the Era of Precise Positioning
In the newest episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast and we're speaking with Sean Gorman, co-founder and CEO of Zephr, a company that is developing a novel network-based approach to augmenting GPS to focus on improving the accuracy and resiliency of GPS/GNSS for mobile phones…
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Space IQ: Q3 2023 Review
In the newest episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast and this is the Q3 2023 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. We are going to walk through the results published in our Q3 2023 Space Investment Quarterly,...
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GHGSat is Delivering Climate Solutions
In this seventeenth episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast and we're speaking with Stephane Germain, he's the co-founder and CEO of GHGSat. Stephane. Space Capital first invested in GHGSat back in 2018, and was featured on the podcast in 2020. Since then, GHGSat launched…
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Space IQ: Q2 2023 Review
This is the Space Capital podcast and today we'll discuss the Q2 2023 Space IQ, our quarterly review of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. We will walk through the results published in our Q2 2023 Space Investment Quarterly, explore current market dynamics, and deep dive...
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Achieving the Impossible with Top Talent
In the 15th episode of the Space Capital podcast, our guest host Justilian, partner at Space Capital is speaking with Brian & Seyka Mejeur, co-founders of AdAstra, a company specializing in talent advisory for space and clean tech startups. Learn more about the importance of talent in this…
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Vision Pro and the Era of Spatial Computing
In the 14th episode of the Space Capital podcast, we are speaking with Alon Grinspoon, founder and CEO of echo3D, a 3D asset management platform helping developers manage and stream 3D AR/VR content. We invested in echo3D in the fall of 2021, and the company's backed by a great syndicate of...
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Big Ideas 2023
In the 13th episode of the Space Capital Podcast, we'll discuss some of the key trends and big ideas that we believe are driving growth in the space economy and how we're thinking about them. Chad Anderson, Tom Ingersoll, and Justus Kilian, Space Capital Managing Partners will examine how global...
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The Space Economy
In this 12th episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast, we're breaking from our standard format to discuss the launch of our new book - The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime from Space Capital Managing Partner, Chad Anderson. The new...
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Space IQ: Q4 2022 Review
This is the Space Capital podcast and this is the Q4 2022 Space IQ review, our quarterly analysis of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. We are going to walk through the results published in our Q4 2022 Space Investment Quarterly, explore current market dynamics, and deep...
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The GEOINT Playbook
In the 10th episode of the Space Capital podcast, the GEOINT Playbook we will walk through the Space Capital thesis, which analyzes geospatial intelligence (GEOINT). This framework helps us connect the dots from the origin and constraints of the geospatial stack to the larger role that space…
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Space IQ: Q3 2022 Review
This is the Space Capital podcast and today we're introducing Space IQ, our quarterly review of startup activity and investment trends in the space economy. We are going to walk through the results published in our Q3 2022 Space Investment Quarterly, explore current market dynamics, and deep dive...
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Remote Sensing: Unlocking Access
In this eighth episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with James Slifierz, founder and CEO of SkyWatch, a company that is enabling a new era in geospatial intelligence by providing developers the tools they need to efficiently and cost-effectively integrate…
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Software for Hard Engineering
In this seventh episode of the second season of the Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Lucy Hoag, Co-Founder and CEO of Violet Labs, a company building a cloud-based software integration for complex hardware engineering. Violet Labs is building cloud-based software integration for complex...
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Climate Mission as a Service
In this sixth episode of the second season of The Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Jonny Dyer, founder and CEO of Muon Space, about how he's built a truly one-of-a-kind team to tackle one of the greatest opportunities of our lifetime. Muon Space is developing a data-centric platform…
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Earth, Moon, and beyond
In this fifth episode of the second season of The Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Justin Cyrus, co-founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost, a robotics company w/ products serving extreme environments on the lunar surface as well as terrestrial industries including mining. Lunar Outpost has…
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Off-grid: Seamless Connectivity
In this fourth episode of the second season of The Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Michael Small, co-founder and CEO of K4 Mobility, a digital technology and Internet services provider for off-grid communications. Space Capital invested in K4 earlier this year based on the quality and...
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Satellites, Smart Contracts, & Climate Change
In this third episode of the second season of The Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Sid Jha, founder and CEO of Arbol, a parametric insurance marketplace for farms and businesses exposed to weather risk; and he's also Founding Partner of dClimate, the world's first transparent,...
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Mission Critical IoT: The Missing Link
In this second episode of the second season of The Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Allan Cannon, founder and CEO of R3 IoT, a Scotland-based company, which combines satellite and cell technology to deliver mission-critical communication services to several different industries. R3 IoT...
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The Promise of Synthetic Data
In this episode of The Space Capital Podcast, we're speaking with Nathan Kundtz, founder and CEO of Rendered.ai, about the company's upcoming launch and how it will further advance their competitive lead to overcome costs and challenges in acquiring and using real-world data for training machine...
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Ep. 21 - Space Talent
In this episode, we're talking about the role talent plays in successful startups. For decades companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft have been competing for top talent and the rise of venture backed startups around the world have driven the competition to an all out battle for great hires. Why?...
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Ep. 20 - Climate Sats
GHGSat's vision is to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse gas (GHG) and air quality gas emissions from industrial sites, using satellites. Their satellite is the first in the world capable of measuring air emissions from targeted industrial facilities. This information…
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Ep. 19 - The GPS Playbook
GPS is a space-based technology that has generated trillions of dollars in economic value and some of the largest venture outcomes in history. "The GPS Playbook", a new report by Space Capital and Silicon Valley Bank, demonstrates the potential for Space-based Communications and Geospatial...
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Ep. 18 - The Space Beat
Michael Sheetz started at CNBC covering breaking news and then joined the markets team, writing about Wall Street and stocks. During that time, CNBC gave him room to report on the space industry and realized there was a huge audience for it. Investors of all kinds, from the mom and pop retail...
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Ep. 17 - Quantum Security
Quantum computing is advancing rapidly and this is creating a problem for secure communications that rely on the supposed mathematical complexity of asymmetric encryption keys. Although these keys are secure against computational hacks today, most are easily cracked with quantum computers. China…
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Ep. 16 - The Promise of 5G
When the number in the corner of our smartphone screens changed from 3G to 4G, few of us even noticed. The same when LTE appeared as an alternative to 4G. However, tech futurists say that fifth-generation networks will support a plethora of internet-connected sensors, vehicles, appliances, and...
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Ep. 15 - Pinpoint
Space-based technologies are the building blocks of innovation and enable our global economy. Early infrastructure investments in GPS by the government were leveraged by distribution pioneers Trimble, Magellan, and Garmin, who not only made the signal more useful/accessible by military troops…
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Ep. 14 - The Missing Link
The legacy of satellite imagery dates back to the '60s, but widespread access is just becoming a reality. The ubiquitous use of GPS has become engrained in everyday life, and satellite imagery is on the precipice of a similar boom. In this episode, we talk to James Slifierz, CEO of Skywatch....
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Ep. 13 - Farming with Satellites
Tractors have been using autonomous driving for decades, but the AgTech sector is relatively new. With water becoming a scarce resource and fertilizer waste growing, precision agriculture is paving the way toward a more sustainable farm. In this episode, we talk to Anastasia Volkova, CEO of...
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Ep. 12 - Dawn of a New Era
In the space, government, and science communities, Lori Garver is a household name. She served as the second-in-command at NASA during the Obama administration, where she was a key proponent of the commercial space industry. She is a co-founder of the prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship for women...
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Ep. 11 - Lots in Space
With the number of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) projected to swell to up to 15,000 in the next five years, space situational awareness and debris mitigation have become a much-discussed topic in the last year. In this episode, we talk to Dan Ceperly, CEO of LeoLabs, whose mission is to...
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Ep. 10 - The Reluctant Entrepreneur
Andy Aldrin is a true child of the Apollo era. Son of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, his career has spanned nearly every aspect of the space economy from big defense contractors, to entrepreneurial space, and academia. Currently an Associate Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology,...
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Ep. 09 - Eyes on the Prize
Anousheh Ansari has many firsts to her name—the first female private space explorer, the first Iranian in space, the first blogger from space. She is also responsible for helping to open up the Entrepreneurial Space Age through her work as the title sponsor of the Ansari XPrize. We spoke with...
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Ep.08 - View From The Stratosphere
Jane Poynter is nothing if not fascinating. A former Biospherian and co-founder of Paragon Space Development Corporation, she is currently the co-founder and CEO World View, which is pioneering a new frontier at the edge of space and leading the way in the emerging stratospheric economy....
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Ep.07 - Who Owns the Moon?
What rules exist to govern and grant property rights in space? What are you allowed to do and not do? And how are things changing as more new entrants join the space economy? To answer these questions, we spoke with Richard Garriott, a private astronaut and famed video game developer. He is also...
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Ep.06 - NASA's Role in Entrepreneurial Space
Investors often think space entrepreneurs like Elon Musk have achieved success all on their own. But government has played a major role in the development, growth, and revenue of companies like SpaceX. This episode's guest, Eric Stallmer, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation…
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Ep.05 - Inside Expedition 17
Every year Space Angels hosts an Expedition, where a limited group of 20 of our most active investor members come together for an inside, first-hand look at the nascent private space industry. In prior years we've traveled to space industry hotbeds like San Francisco, Seattle, and Southern...
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Ep.04 - Fueling Our Space Future
With a number of new plans emerging to take humans to the moon and Mars, the question of affordable transportation remains. Our guest today, Chris Lewicki—CEO of Planetary Resources, has a solution. The asteroid-mining company plans to drastically reduce the cost of deep space missions by...
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Ep.02 - Reimagining Space Stations
By the 2020's, near the planned end of the life of the International Space Station, NASA's intention is to transition Low Earth Orbit from a domain that is primarily government-led to one that is primarily led by the private sector. The future is commercial and in this episode we welcome Jeff...
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Space Capital Podcast, the playbook for investing in the space economy, is hosted by Chad Anderson, founder and Managing Partner of Space Capital, the world's leading seed-stage venture capital firm investing in the space economy. Listen for unique insights into startup activity and investment trends from the founders and innovators at the forefront.
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