# Bill Perkins

> Bill Perkins is a seed investor at Sky Financial Group (Houston) backing Aerospace and Apps. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sky Financial Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sky-financial-group)
- Location: Houston, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-perkins-a435694
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bp22
- Website: https://x.com/bp22

Bill Perkins is a seed investor at Sky Financial Group in Houston focused on Aerospace and Apps. Bill Perkins is the Founder, Managing Partner and CIO of Skylar Capital Management. He previously worked at Brisa Max Holdings VI as a President. Bill Perkins attended the University of Iowa.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $6M–$7.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 2 | 40% |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Audio | 1 | 20% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| Big Data | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Albedo | Albedo is the full-stack VLEO company. We deliver exquisite performance with resilient, agile architectures at a fraction of traditional costs. Our Precision platform supports a variety of mission types - just bring your payload. Clarity-1 is flying in VLEO today. | $35M | Series A | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| SkyFi® | SkyFi provides a self-service Earth intelligence platform that lets users access and order satellite imagery, run geospatial analytics, and obtain open and commercial Earth observation data. The platform integrates imagery from optical, SAR, hyperspectral, and other sensors and offers tools like object detection and commodity measurement to turnraw data into usable insights for various operational needs. SkyFi also provides data through APIs and web/mobile interfaces, enabling satellite tasking, archive search, and maritime tracking services. The company’s products span commercial imagery ordering, free open data, analytics modules, and partner-powered access to specialized constellations and vessel tracking feeds. | $7M | Seed | May 23, 2023 |  |
| SynMax | SynMax is a satellite data analytics company that specializes in the use of commercial satellite images to find and monitor oil and gas assets and provide maritime intelligence data. | $6M | Seed | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| SkyFi® | SkyFi provides a self-service Earth intelligence platform that lets users access and order satellite imagery, run geospatial analytics, and obtain open and commercial Earth observation data. The platform integrates imagery from optical, SAR, hyperspectral, and other sensors and offers tools like object detection and commodity measurement to turnraw data into usable insights for various operational needs. SkyFi also provides data through APIs and web/mobile interfaces, enabling satellite tasking, archive search, and maritime tracking services. The company’s products span commercial imagery ordering, free open data, analytics modules, and partner-powered access to specialized constellations and vessel tracking feeds. | $7.2M | Seed | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Veotag | Veotag is a service that lets you display clickable text, called "veotags," within an audio or video file. | $750K | Angel |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Booz Allen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/booz-allen-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [J2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j2-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karman-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moving-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acof) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Balerion Space Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balerion-space-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Sky Financial Group

VC Fund · Bowling Green, United States

Sky Financial Group, Inc. operates as a holding company for Sky Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services. It accepts various demand, savings, checking, and time deposits, as well as brokered deposits, cash and interest earning deposits, interest bearing deposits, certificates of deposit, and retail and commercial deposits. Thebank offers commercial and consumer loans, non-residential and residential mortgages, home equity loans, construction and real estate loans, installment loans, capital loans, financial and agricultural loans, and credit card loans.

1 contacts available at Sky Financial Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Perkins | Founder and Owner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-o-perkins-iii |

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## FAQ

### What does Bill Perkins invest in?

Bill Perkins invests primarily in Aerospace, Apps and Audio startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 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 Bill Perkins's check size?

Bill Perkins typically joins rounds of $6M–$7.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bill Perkins participates in.

### When did Bill Perkins last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bill Perkins closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 5 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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