SpaceFund is a venture capital firm which invests in visionary yet practical high-growth startups addressing the multi-billion dollar space markets that will both enable and benefit from the space revolution.
SpaceFund’s view of the space economy and associated taxonomy, are as follows:
- Space Economy
- Transportation
- Launch industry
- In-Space Transportation (e.g. tugs, in-space propulsion systems, custom 3rd stages, fuel depots, etc.)
- Planetary Surface Space (e.g. lunar landers, space elevators for use on the Moon or Mars, etc.)
- Planetary On-Surface Transportation (robotic and human-supporting rovers)
- Communications
- Beyond Earth Orbit Communications (e.g. technology and services to enable communications beyond Earth orbit)
- Terrestrial/Earth Orbit Communications (e.g. ‘bent pipe’ Earth to Earth communications, including traditional communications satellites, internet providers, and ground-based receivers)
- Supply chain
- Satellite servicing (e.g. debris mitigation, orbit adjustment, robotic servicing, asset monitoring)
- Raw materials mining
- Manufacturing and production
- Distribution and storage
- Human factors
- Habitats
- Surface
- In-space
- Life-support
- Biomedical
- Habitats
- Energy
- Capture and creation (e.g. solar, nuclear, fuel cell)
- Transmission (e.g. laser, microwave, radio, solar)
- Storage (e.g. capacitor, battery, regenerative fuel cell, flywheels)
- Transportation
