# الياس الجبل

> الياس الجبل is a seed investor in Oxford backing Software, Aerospace and Wholesale. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elia-montanari-business/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/elias_me_em
- Website: https://angellist.com/s/spacebrainx-investor-forum/r03Ih
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ra00015ojp

الياس الجبل is a seed investor in Oxford focused on Software and Aerospace. الياس is an accredited investor and angel investor with holdings in private equity funds. Much Space experience as Head of Management, Control, and Quality in all walks of Space at the European Space Agency with a real passion for SBX, an angel investment boutique aiming to use Space superpower to further humanity. Faithful to his erratic suite ofinterests, he develops AI applications, holds a master's in Business Administration at the Henley Business School (UK), a master's degree in Chemical engineering from the University of Bologna (IT), and -most recently - studied Development Economics at MITx (US).

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $700k–$900k |
| Series B | $10M–$163M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Aerospace | 2 | 17% |
| Wholesale | 2 | 17% |
| Space Travel | 2 | 17% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 58% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $452.3M | Secondary Market | May 31, 2024 |  |
| Xona | Xona Space Systems is building a next-generation satellite navigation system using small but powerful satellites in low-Earth orbit. The constellation they are developing is designed to provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy that modern intelligent systems, such as autonomous vehicles and drones, need tooperate safely at scale. | $19M | Series A | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Colossal Biosciences | Colossal is a ground-breaking bioscience and gene engineering firm that develops cutting-edge genomics technology. | $162.6M | Series B | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Spottitt | Spottitt leverages A.I. and access to the images from more than 200 satellites to offer satellite analytics that unlocks low-cost maintenance and operations for transmission and distribution utilities.Problem We live in a world where critical assets e.g. transportation and communication infrastructure, is in constant danger while governments andconsumers are expecting rising levels of security, reliability and performance. Despite the fact that more than 80% of asset failures are due to external factors including climate change-induced weather, less than 10% of assets are digitally inspected once a year or more because of recurring associated costs yet incurring even higher costs when disrupted. This is a core barrier to asset managers' and owners' towards digitalization and predictive maintenanceSolution Spottitt is the solution to monitor the external environment around critical assets, at scale in real time. Organizations use Spottitt throughout an asset's lifecycle to maximise their performance. Our platform automatically transforms the widest variety of satellite and other geospatial data into a stream of metrics to monitor 90% of the causes of asset failure with high accuracy. Our clients enjoy attractive pricing without the need to spend on in-situ operators or sensors.Market Opportunities The Geospatial Analytics market is worth $61B in 2021 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 13.1% over the next 10 years. Spottitt’s current market focus is the $11.4B utility market segment, where the main growth drivers are ageing assets and climate change, digitalization for improved asset performance, safety and reliabilityRevenue Model and Traction A transparent pay-per-km2, subscription is in development. Main sales channels include direct (50%), digital (20%) and events (30%). Last 18 months: converted 19 new important customers, and already closed follow-on contracts with four of them. Barriers to trial are kept low with paid PoC’s starting at $3000. Gross margins at 60%!Unfair Competitive Advantage Competition Spottitt provides a “metrics as a service” model which is driven by our belief in the winning value of automation: better, faster and cheaper. We believe that our innovation cycle creates in an insurmountable barrier for competitors and newcomers. Top 3 direct competitors are Live EO, AIDash and Overstory. To access their monitoring services you must purchase and integrate their asset management platforms which is not attractive to customers. Founders & Team The management team is led by co-founder and CEO Lucy Kennedy who has more than 20 years of managerial experience and is the nominated European Earth Observation Evangelist for Infrastructure. Spottitt CGO Niccolo Teodori, Forbes 30 under 30 2018, joined the team just over a year ago after exiting from his first technology startup Elemize. Our technical team is made of 10 people specialized in software development, machine learning and earth observation. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Xona | Xona Space Systems is building a next-generation satellite navigation system using small but powerful satellites in low-Earth orbit. The constellation they are developing is designed to provide secure navigation and timing services with the resilience and accuracy that modern intelligent systems, such as autonomous vehicles and drones, need tooperate safely at scale. | $10M | Series B | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| TransAstra | TransAstra is developing breakthrough technologies in the areas of space resources and in-space transportation to enable massive growth to existing space industries and whole new space industries. TransAstra leads the world in the technologies to find, prospect, harvest, and use space resources. Space resources include water and other valuablematerials to be found on asteroids and lunar poles.TransAstra knows how to extract these resources and use them as rocket propellant for use in today's commercial satellites and whole new industries including space tourism. | $4M | Seed | Sep 10, 2021 |  |
| Peeba | Peeba is a curated online wholesale marketplace that transform the way local retailers in Asia shop for their stores. | $900K | Pre-Seed | Aug 20, 2021 |  |
| Starfish Space | Starfish Space is a space technology company focused on developing infrastructure for in-orbit satellite servicing and maintenance. It designs autonomous spacecraft, particularly its Otter vehicle, which can rendezvous with, dock to, and interact with satellites already in orbit. The company’s technology enables services such as extending theoperational life of satellites, repositioning them, and safely removing defunct satellites or debris from space. Its systems rely on advanced robotics, navigation software, and electric propulsion to perform precise proximity operations in orbit. Through these capabilities, it aims to make satellite servicing more affordable and scalable, supporting the long-term sustainability and growth of space activities. | $7M | Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Peeba | Peeba is a curated online wholesale marketplace that transform the way local retailers in Asia shop for their stores. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 25, 2021 |  |
| Moku Foods | Moku Foods' products include a mushroom jerky starter pack, original mushroom jerky, sweet and spicy mushroom jerky, and teriyaki mushroom jerky. It sells starter packs of mushroom jerky. | $2M | Seed | May 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does الياس الجبل invest in?

الياس الجبل invests primarily in Software, Aerospace and Wholesale startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is الياس الجبل's check size?

الياس الجبل typically joins rounds of $2M–$7M at Seed, $700k–$900k at Pre-Seed and $10M–$163M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds الياس الجبل participates in.

### When did الياس الجبل last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for الياس الجبل closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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