Lodestar Space

🚀 We're excited to partner with Magdrive to deliver "MagLode RAMPS – Robotic Arm Mounted Propulsion System", funded by the STFC Business & Innovation and Satellite Applications Catapult. Pushing the boundaries of UK ISAM and dual-use space tech —with even bigger things ahead! This is the dream team the Entrepreneur First portfolio has been dreaming about 🦾 🚀 #dualuse #Space #ISAM #Lodestar #Magdrive

Many VCs I know at early-stage funds love their job, but get frustrated at how often they have to say 'No...' No matter how many amazing founders they meet, they're only able to make a small number of bets each year, leading to an endless stream of 'you're just too early, market's not quite big enough, tech's a little too risky...' One of the best things about investing at Entrepreneur First is how often you get to say YES - YES to helping doctors treat more patients @ TORTUS 🩺 - YES to the continuous hormone monitor @ Level Zero Health ⚕️ - YES to supercharging creator marketing @ AMT 📈 - YES to decoding crop genetics with AI @ Biographica 🌾 - YES to bringing more care workers into the UK @ Borderless 🗒️ - YES to robotics in space @ Lodestar Space 🦾 Because we back founders at the very start of their journey, we get to work with a huge number of the most talented people across every field - in 2025 we're expecting to make over 60 investments in London alone. We're hiring investors to say 'yes' to the next generation of tech companies - if you're interested apply at the link in the comments...

“We used to think we’re ahead, I’m here to tell you that we are behind” On Wednesday night at the Embassy of the United States of America, London, I had the chance to highlight the significant challenge we face in space security, and the work Lodestar Space is doing to solve for this gap. At an incredible reception honouring US and UK collaboration in space, hosted by Leon Alkalai, Matthew Palmer, PJ Menner FRAeS, and the Mandala Space Ventures team, it was clear that the Special Relationship 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 is more valuable than ever before to ensure UK industry can deliver much needed capability to our allies. Lodestar’s future will be intrinsically linked to close US-UK collaboration - this is only the beginning. Chris White-Horne Nik Smith David Beck Stewart Smith Viney Jean-Francois Dhiri Jeff Crusey Chris Magazzeni Portia B. Yuri Andersson Nima E. Kyle Thomas Martin Soltau Hira Virdee Dr Aqeel Shamsul Jakub Jecminek Thomas Santini Alexander Lange Jonatan H. Luther-Bergquist Mick Halsband Alberto Cresto Paul Bate Craig Brown Matt Clifford Alice Bentinck Charlie Songhurst Mehdi Ghissassi Zehan Wang

Keeping the good news coming - we’re excited to announce we’ve been selected for NVIDIA’s Inception program! 🎉 Applying our proprietary neural-net approach to solving physical interaction in space will advance the art of the possible - with Nvidia’s resources and expertise, we’re one step closer to leveraging this capability to secure our democracies from space. Alexander Martynau Kiran de Silva Thomas Santini

We’re thrilled to share that Lodestar has been accepted into the prestigious Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) Space Stream! We’ll collaborate with world-class mentors, VCs, and angel investors to scale our impact and accelerate our mission to solve physical interaction problems for space. 🚀 🛰️ Our journey began this November at 🇨🇦 University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, and we're now being supported by some of the brightest minds in the field! We’re excited to be part of the worldwide 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 CDL family. We'll do our best to share updates as we go through the programme! Connect with our team to learn firsthand about the CDL process! Or learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e9isxf8.

In both the UK and the USA, the aerospace industry has taken off🚀. Our Consulate’s Business and Trade team has partnered with Mandala Space Ventures with sponsorship by UK Space Agency for the first ever SoCal-UK Space Accelerator programme, hosting nine UK space start-ups in LA- a leading city in space technology and innovation. As part of the programme, Consul General Paul Rennie, OBE, Director of Trade Olivia Gray-Rodgers, and Mandala organised a reception for the UK start-ups at the Consul General’s residence and joined them on a tour and presentation of two key locally headquartered aerospace companies, VAST and Rocket Lab. A special thanks to Leon Alkalai, CEO of Mandala Space Ventures, Richard French, Vice President of Business Development and Strategy, Space Systems at Rocket Lab, as well as David Caponio, Senior Vice President of Product and Business Development at Vast, and Tristan Prejean, Associate Director of Business Development at Vast.

2024 SoCal-UK Space Accelerator Demo Day in  El Segundo! Hosted by yours truly! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🌴 🌌 Pitching startups - Agtelligence ANGOKA Lodestar Space Lumi Space SecondStar Space Solar SAIF Systems Universal Atmosphere Processing Frontier Space Technologies

If you're on the US West Coast this week and want to learn about what we're doing for #spacesecurity - reach out to our CEO Neil!

Thanks Michael Staab 🇺🇸 we’re #hiring so if you've got what it takes 🚀check out our open roles: https://lnkd.in/erGryfx9

Initial Vacuum Testing Campaign Complete! 🎉 🛠️ We’ve just wrapped up an extraordinary week of vacuum testing at the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 University of Glasgow. Over four intensive days, our team rigorously validated and stress-tested our robotic subsystem in a 12m³ chamber, pushing it beyond its limits. The results? Outstanding. Made possible by our partners and the team at the University of Glasgow especially Gilles BAILET, for their unwavering support of the Lodestar Space 👾 mission. We've only just begun with more validation campaigns on the horizon, powered by the 🇬🇧 UK Space Agency’s 🇬🇧 National Space Innovation Programme. 🚀 If you're ready to develop cutting-edge robotics to thrive in the harshest environments on Earth 🌍 and beyond 🚀— join us for the next frontier of space technology and be part of our next testing campaign.✨ If you've got what it takes, check out our open roles: https://job https://lnkd.in/gtYG_a65 #SpaceTech #UKSpaceAgency #NationalSpaceInnovationProgramme #NSIP | Scottish Space Network