Starburst Ventures
VC Fund
Paris, France
Starburst Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the aviation, space, and defense industries. The firm helps early-stage companies accelerate their business development efforts across the government and industry.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Last fund:
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Industries Starburst Ventures invests in
Stages Starburst Ventures invests in
Countries Starburst Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$12M
- Series A
- $13M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 3 (27%)
- Space Travel 3 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (27%)
- Drones 2 (18%)
- Manufacturing 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (64%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 4 (36%)
- Spain 1 (9%)
- France 1 (9%)
- Australia 1 (9%)
- United Kingdom 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Francois Chopard
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Benjamin Zeitoun
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bruno Costa
Accelerator Manager
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Accelerator Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Cyril Grislain
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Sandra Budimir
Europe Managing Director
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Europe Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Picogrid
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Picogrid is a technology company that develops hardware and software systems for integrating mission-critical assets across defense, public safety, and industrial environments. Its platform connects sensors, unmanned systems, command-and-control tools, and other digital infrastructure to support coordinated operations across land, sea, air, andspace. The company provides products such as data integration platforms, edge computing nodes, and interoperability tools that enable information sharing and operational control across systems from different vendors. Picogrid supports use cases including base security, air defense, satellite operations, signals intelligence, wildfire monitoring, and human-machine teaming. Its technology is designed to help organizations manage and coordinate distributed systems through a unified operational framework. | $45M / Series A / May 29, 2026 | |
Alta Ares
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Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging. | $2.2M / Seed / May 12, 2025 | |
Loft Orbital
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Loft Orbital operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads as a service.Loft Orbital offers an end-to-end service that delivers missions to orbit on a standard microsatellite bus. The company handles all elements of a satellite campaign from end to end - booking, launching, and operating a satellite, as well as securing the necessarylicenses, insurance, and financing. | $170M / Series C / Jan 14, 2025 | |
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Picogrid
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Picogrid is a technology company that develops hardware and software systems for integrating mission-critical assets across defense, public safety, and industrial environments. Its platform connects sensors, unmanned systems, command-and-control tools, and other digital infrastructure to support coordinated operations across land, sea, air, andspace. The company provides products such as data integration platforms, edge computing nodes, and interoperability tools that enable information sharing and operational control across systems from different vendors. Picogrid supports use cases including base security, air defense, satellite operations, signals intelligence, wildfire monitoring, and human-machine teaming. Its technology is designed to help organizations manage and coordinate distributed systems through a unified operational framework. | $12M / Seed / Mar 26, 2024 | |
AeroCloud
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AeroCloud Systems designs cutting-edge IT technologies for the aviation industry. | $12.6M / Series A / Feb 21, 2023 | |
Outpost
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Outpost is the sustainable space company. We enable precision Earth Return of satellites and orbital payload missions. | $7.1M / Seed / Aug 30, 2022 | |
Outpost Technologies
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Outpost Technologies specializes in developing sustainable and efficient space exploration technologies. | $7.1M / Seed / Aug 30, 2022 | |
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Outpost
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Outpost is the sustainable space company. We enable precision Earth Return of satellites and orbital payload missions. | $7.1M / Seed / Aug 30, 2022 | |
Strong Compute
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Strong Compute is building the future of Cloud Computing, priced by performance not consumption. Our software and hardware optimizations speed up neural network development 10x-1000x, file transfer 1000x, instance start time 10x. We're starting with AI and are aimed at the $500B cloud market. | $7.8M / Seed / May 30, 2022 | |
Natilus
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Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+. | Seed / May 18, 2021 | |
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FAQ
What does Starburst Ventures invest in?
Starburst Ventures invests primarily in Aerospace, Space Travel and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 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 Starburst Ventures's check size?
Starburst Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$12M at Seed and $13M–$45M 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 Starburst Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Starburst Ventures?
The team at Starburst Ventures includes Francois Chopard (General Partner), Benjamin Zeitoun (Investor) and Bruno Costa (Accelerator Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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