Space Capital
VC Fund
New York, United States
Space Capital is a venture capital firm investing in the Space economy, specifically focused on unlocking the value in Space technology stacks such as GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and Communications.
- Total investments:
- 97
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $14M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Space Capital invests in
Stages Space Capital invests in
Countries Space Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$10M
- Series A
- $4M–$45M
- Series B
- $11M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 23 (24%)
- Software 13 (13%)
- Space Travel 12 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (11%)
- Satellite Communication 10 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 30 (31%)
- Series A 27 (28%)
- Series B 10 (10%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 45 (46%)
- Canada 4 (4%)
- United Kingdom 4 (4%)
- Germany 2 (2%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ajay Kapoor
Private Investor
|
Private Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ajay Kapoor
Private Investor
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Private Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Alan Yu
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Alan Yu
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chad Anderson
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 73 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Lux Aeterna
|
Lux Aeterna is a space infrastructure company that focuses on orbital activities through reentry and reusability. | $10M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | |
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 | |
Varda
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Varda is a space manufacturing startup that focuses on creating products in space for terrestrial applications. They aim to manufacture things in space that benefit from low gravity. The company intends to create an infrastructure that harvests source materials for new products in-space via asteroid mining.The company was founded in 2020 byDelian Asparouhov and Trae Stephens. | Series D / Feb 17, 2026 | |
Neurophos
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Neurophos develops photonic AI processing technology that focuses on hardware solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence inference by replacing traditional electronic compute elements with optical processing units (OPUs). The company’s technology uses ultra-dense optical modulators and silicon photonics to enable computation using light,aiming to support matrix operations central to AI workloads with increased energy efficiency and performance relative to conventional graphics processing units. Neurophos’ offerings include prototype OPUs and development systems designed to integrate into data center environments, and its platform targets engineering teams and compute-intensive applications that demand scalable AI inference capability. The business collaborates with industry partners and investors to advance its optical compute architecture and develop supporting software stacks and hardware modules for deployment. Neurophos also engages in pilot programs and partnerships to test its photonic processors in real-world compute environments and explore integration pathways with existing infrastructure. Its work leverages research in metamaterials and compute-in-memory design to reduce power consumption and enhance throughput for AI inference tasks. | $110M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | |
Globeholder AI
|
Globeholder AI develops AI systems focused on physical-world reasoning and high-stakes decision support. The company builds global geospatial foundation models that encode complex geographical data into high-dimensional embeddings. Its technology supports planetary physical reasoning and real-world predictive intelligence. Globeholder AI works ongeo-embedding arithmetic, geo-LLMs, and geospatial embeddings as a service to help organizations analyze and predict real-world conditions. | Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | |
K4 Mobility
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K4 Mobility is a digital platform that harnesses the power of the Internet to provide services for maritime ships. K4's digital platform uses software algorithms to select the best networks, among the satellites and terrestrial options available today and in the future.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 05, 2025 | |
Armada
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Welcome to the new edge. Armada is the world’s first full-stack edge computing platform, revolutionizing connectivity, compute, and AI solutions where they’re needed most - anywhere on Earth. | $131M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 24, 2025 | |
LGND
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LGND is a technology business that specialises in AI-powered spatial data solutions. | $9M / Seed / Jul 10, 2025 | |
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Lux Aeterna
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Lux Aeterna is a space infrastructure company that focuses on orbital activities through reentry and reusability. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 25, 2025 | |
Dataplor
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Dataplor is a location intelligence platform provider that connects businesses with an on-demand mobile workforce. The platform offers real-time data verification, augmentation, and market research on local firms using machine learning and artificial intelligence models, allowing clients to alter their collecting requirements readily. | $20.5M / Series B / Jun 03, 2025 | |
| See all 97 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Space Capital invest in?
Space Capital invests primarily in Aerospace, Software and Space Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 97 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 Space Capital's check size?
Space Capital typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$10M at Seed, $4M–$45M at Series A and $11M–$45M 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 Space Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Space Capital?
The team at Space Capital includes Ajay Kapoor (Private Investor), Ajay Kapoor (Private Investor) and Alan Yu (Associate), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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