Jed McCaleb
Founder @ Vast Space
San Francisco, United States
Jed McCaleb is a seed investor at Vast Space in San Francisco focused on Internet and Payments. Jed McCaleb is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder of Vast. Jed previously worked at Ripple as a Co-Founder.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Jed McCaleb invests in
Stages Jed McCaleb invests in
Countries Jed McCaleb invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $42M–$300M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (29%)
- Payments 2 (29%)
- Space Travel 2 (29%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Mining 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Initial Coin Offering 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 5 (71%)
- Canada 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Vast
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Vast designs and develops commercial space stations for long-duration human missions, including concepts that use artificial gravity. The company engineers pressurized modules, habitation systems, power and thermal control, and docking interfaces, and integrates crew transportation via partner launch providers. Programs include Haven-1 and a largermodular station architecture that supports microgravity research, in-space manufacturing, and private astronaut expeditions. VAST SPACE, LLC collaborates with SpaceX for Crew Dragon missions and works with government and industry under collaborative agreements. Capabilities span mission design, payload accommodation, and on-orbit operations to enable sustained human presence in low Earth orbit and beyond. | $300M / Series A / Mar 05, 2026 | |
AstroForge
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AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroid. Instead of bringing back the entire asteroid, break it up, refine it, and return only what’s valuable. | $42.5M / Series A / Aug 20, 2024 | |
Socket
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Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. We are taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities.Socket is built by a team of open sourcemaintainers with over 1 billion monthly downloads. Everyone on the Socket team is an open source maintainer. We are all driven to defend the open source ecosystem from supply chain attacks and make it safe for everyone.Socket is unique because, unlike other tools, it detects and blocks supply chain attacks before they strike, mitigating the worst consequences. | $4.6M / Seed / May 11, 2022 | |
Stream Token
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Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in. | $5M / Initial Coin Offering / Oct 26, 2017 | |
Propellon Therapeutics
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Propellon Therapeutics is developing and commercializing novel cancer therapies targeting the WDR5 protein, essential for assembly of methyltransferase complexes and proper histone modification. The overexpression of WDR5 and resulting deregulation of epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in various cancers and correlated with poor patient survival.Established by FACIT, Propellon’s WDR5 inhibitor platform arises from discoveries, research and innovations originating from OICR. | $3M / Seed / Mar 22, 2017 | |
Prospectify
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The only Sales Platform to identify and replace inaccurate and decayed data inside your CRM. | $1M / Seed / Mar 09, 2017 | |
Bold Financial Technologies
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Bold Financial Technologies is a payment and compliance operations for on-demand service operators. It's payouts stack to pay new publishers globally offers a REST API integration, from background checks to driving record screening and local currency payouts; and provides Bold Payouts platform, a solution for marketplaces to leverage a singleintegration that offers a back-office payout infrastructure.Bold Financial Technologies streamlines the process of mass payouts while exponentially growing the international reach of its clients. It also provides a complete administrative platform, including Tax tracking and reporting, recipient onboarding, a client administrative portal, a recipient portal, and an API.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.2M / Seed / May 14, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Vast Space
Founded in 2021, the company is assembling a world-class team to build the world’s first low-cost, artificial gravity station so people can live and work in space for long periods of time without the permanent side effects of zero-gravity.
Vast Space Contacts
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Christopher Timperio
RF Engineer
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Jed McCaleb
Founder
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Karin Kuo
Vice President of People
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Luis Rodriguez Alcalde
Senior Director, Orbiter Engineering
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FAQ
What does Jed McCaleb invest in?
Jed McCaleb invests primarily in Internet, Payments and Space Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Jed McCaleb's check size?
Jed McCaleb typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.6M at Seed and $42M–$300M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jed McCaleb participates in.
When did Jed McCaleb last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jed McCaleb closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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