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Global Space Ventures

backs exceptional founders and entrepreneurs accelerating what’s mission critical to humanity — and building better futures at scale.

“ We support the daring build iconic companies and better futures at scale.” Laetitia de Cayeux Founder / Managing Partner

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GSV GP's investments include several unicorns and active investments in SpaceX, Lynk Global, SparkCognition, and Colossal Biosciences.

SpaceX has enabled a 100x decrease in space access cost. Through its LEO constellation, it also provides consumers and government users low-latency broadband internet and communications, and a modular spacecraft bus capable of hosting and integrating a variety of sensors and payloads.

Lynk is the world’s only patented, proven, and commercially licensed satellite-direct-to-standard-phone system that delivers service through its mobile network operator (MNO) partners. Lynk has proven two-way commercial and emergency messaging on all seven continents, and is scaling to provide service at broadband speeds.

SparkCognition delivers AI solutions which address core infrastructure challenges, including asset optimization, preventing zero-day cyberattacks, augmenting skill gaps, and enabling climate change initiatives. It also offers next-generation AI systems to address critical national security initiatives, including Joint Readiness Command and Control (JRC2) AI solutions that enable a common operating picture at the asset, unit, and fleet level.

Colossal combines the science of genetics with the business of discovery to jumpstart nature’s ancestral heartbeat. To see the Woolly Mammoth thunder upon tundra once again. To advance the economies of biology and healing through genetics. To make humanity more human.

ThrustMe offers advanced mobility solutions capitalizing on the unique advantages of sublimating iodine for in-space propulsion.  Its expertise and IP for storing and sublimating iodine, and the capability these offer to create highly miniaturized, highly reliable devices, without valves or pipes, across the spectrum of small thrusters, represents an incredible boon for this new age of LEO constellations, and beyond.  

SparkCognition delivers AI solutions which address core infrastructure challenges, including asset optimization, preventing zero-day cyberattacks, augmenting skill gaps, and enabling climate change initiatives. It also offers next-generation AI systems to address critical national security initiatives, including Joint Readiness Command and Control (JRC2) AI solutions that enable a common operating picture at the asset, unit, and fleet level.

Lynk is the world’s only patented, proven, and commercially licensed satellite-direct-to-standard-phone system that delivers service through its mobile network operator (MNO) partners. Lynk has proven two-way commercial and emergency messaging on all seven continents, and is scaling to provide service at broadband speeds.

SpaceX has enabled a 100x decrease in space access cost. Through its LEO constellation, it also provides consumers and government users low-latency broadband internet and communications, and a modular spacecraft bus capable of hosting and integrating a variety of sensors and payloads.

ThrustMe offers advanced mobility solutions capitalizing on the unique advantages of sublimating iodine for in-space propulsion.  Its expertise and IP for storing and sublimating iodine, and the capability these offer to create highly miniaturized, highly reliable devices, without valves or pipes, across the spectrum of small thrusters, represents an incredible boon for this new age of LEO constellations, and beyond.  

Colossal combines the science of genetics with the business of discovery to jumpstart nature’s ancestral heartbeat. To see the Woolly Mammoth thunder upon tundra once again. To advance the economies of biology and healing through genetics. To make humanity more human.

Team

Global Space Ventures is led by operators and investors who have built and invested in iconic technology companies for over three decades.

Laetitia is the Founder, Managing Partner, and General Partner of Global Space Ventures, and is primarily responsible for portfolio management, from deal sourcing to exit. Dual-use critical technology pioneers she has backed and accelerated in the last decade of her 25-year career include SpaceX in which she made an early investment in 2012, and several other unicorns. She was also instrumental, as co-founder/President of Escape Dynamics in meaningful advances in beamed energy technology, and its onboarding on NASA’s roadmap in 2015. Laetitia serves on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board; on NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems Innovation Advisory Board; on the board of directors of XPRIZE, which launched the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE with Elon Musk; on the advisory board of the Truman Center for National Policy; and the board of the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath). She is also a security fellow of the Truman National Security Project, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and Women Corporate Directors. A leading voice in innovation and national security, she has contributed to U.S. congressional taskforces on innovation, and briefed members of the U.S. Senate on national security and commercial space. Laetitia started her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the late 1990’s where she completed more than $8B in M&A transactions and held leadership investment roles at leading multi-billion dollars global investment firms TPG-Axon and Renaissance Technologies. Laetitia earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2004. She was recognized in 2010 as a "Rising Star" by Institutional Investor after starting global long-short public market equity fund Ajna Partners, which she closed to focus on private investments in frontier technologies through her family office. She is also the recipient of the inaugural ESSEC USA Visionary Award (2023).

Theoretical physicist and former head of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Dr. Jackson was one of the first two Black American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the U.S. and the first to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Jackson’s research specialty is in theoretical condensed matter physics, especially layered systems, and the physics of opto-electronic materials. Her distinguished career has included a 23-year tenure as Rensselaer’s 18th president, and senior positions in government, as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; in industry and research, as a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories; and in academia, as a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University. Dr. Jackson's research contributed to the inventions of the touch tone telephone, fiber-optic cables, caller ID, and call waiting, and Time magazine has called her “the ultimate role model for women in science”.

Andy is primarily responsible for legal and operations, and deal structuring. He has two decades of experience working on technology transactions and asset management. He was a co-founder of beamed energy propulsion company Escape Dynamics. Andy also served as a tax and corporate attorney representing corporate and private clients on investments and mergers and acquisitions. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan, a JD from American University Washington College of Law, and an LLM in Tax Law from New York University.

Anousheh is the CEO of XPRIZE and a serial tech entrepreneur who founded an exited tech companies in telecom, edge computing, data privatization, and multimedia distribution valued over $1B, with over 60 critical patents used in common solutions for media streaming, smart home systems, connected cars, and chronic patient care. She captured international headlines when she became the first female private space explorer, first astronaut of Iranian descent, and first Muslim woman in space. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, shares her life story, aiming to serve as inspiration for young women around the world. An electrical engineer with a master’s degree from George Washington Univerisy, Dr. Ansari is a STEM Leadership Hall of Fame awardee, and also serves on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council.

A retired Marine Corps General, Charlie served as NASA Administrator from 2009 to 2017 after a 14-year astronaut career, including 4 Space Shuttle missions, and 34-year in the Marine Corps. Charlie received NASA’s Leadership Medal and Exceptional Service Medal, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Distinguished Service Medal, Superior Service Medal, and Legion of Merit. He holds a B.S. in electrical science from the U.S. Naval Academy and a Master of Science in systems management from the University of Southern California. In Charlie’s time as NASA’s Administrator, NASA developed the Commercial Cargo and Commercial Crew programs, opening the current era of commercialization in space, and established the Space Technology Mission Directorate to develop next-gen technologies for future missions. Roles he held in the Astronaut Office included Safety Officer, Chief of the Safety Division at Johnson Space Center, and lead astronaut for vehicle test and checkout at Kennedy Space Center.

Peter is a beacon for bold entrepreneurs seeking to change the world; corporate executives navigating exponential times; and technologists working on their next breakthrough. Peter’s two New York Times best-selling books, Abundance and Bold, outline an optimistic vision of the future as well as the resources at one’s disposal to build that future. After receiving a Masters in Aeronautics from MIT and a MD from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Diamandis is credited for opening the commercial space industry. He has co-founded the XPRIZE Foundation, Singularity University (SU) and 20+ companies.

Amir is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, technologist, and the founder/CEO of AI company SparkCognition, which he founded in 2012 and scaled into a $1.5B company deploying large scale AI solutions for leading industrial partners and governments, and which launched SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) chaired by former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Robert O. Work. His best-selling book “The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence” and “Hyperwar: Conflict and Competition in the AI Century”, of which he is a co-author, discuss the future of AI, and the role of AI on the battlefield. Amir also serves on the Board of Advisors for The University of Texas Department of Computer Science and on the NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems Innovation Advisory Board. He has been awarded over 30 patents and has several pending applications.