Team

Operators inside the environments where orbital infrastructure is defined.

We don't evaluate this market from the outside. Our partners have built national-scale data infrastructure, worked inside NASA autonomy and navigation programs, and operate across U.S. and allied defense communities.

01Leadership

Fund leadership.

Daniel Riedel

Daniel Riedel

Founder & Managing Partner

Building infrastructure since the early web — through national-scale data systems, the Department of Energy's laboratory ecosystem, and the security of critical infrastructure. Founded and exited a security engineering firm, and helped shape a sovereign data standard adopted globally.

  • U.S. Senate testimony — cybersecurity & critical infrastructure
  • DOE national laboratories — LLNL · INL
  • Sovereign data standard — adopted globally
James Blom

James F. Blom

Managing Partner

Operates inside the environments where space infrastructure is built — NASA Ames autonomy and navigation, Mars rover programs, and corporate development at a U.S. Navy prime. His last company was acquired by Google in 2023.

  • NASA Ames — autonomy & navigation programs
  • Google acquisition — 2023
  • Advisor across U.S. and European space programs

02Network

The advisor bench.

Long-tenured operators across defense, intelligence, data, security, and commercialization — in the United States and across allied markets.

Fund

Fund Advisors

Defense · Intelligence · Risk

Bob Gourley

Defense · Cybersecurity · CTO

Matthew Devost

Defense · Cybersecurity · Strategy

Mark Clancy

Telco · Cybersecurity · Risk

Studio

Studio Advisors

AI · Data · Product · Markets

Michael Rezek

Defense · Space programs

Steve Mays

Advisor

Andreas Rohr

Security · Operations · Germany

Joerg Eschweiler

AI · Infrastructure · Defense

Hilary Mason

AI · Data · Community

Tony Aghazarian

Hardware · Supply chain · Manufacturing

Marlan Hardie

Telecommunications · Infrastructure · UX

Winston Ibrahim

Entrepreneur · Investor

Cyrus Shaoul

AI · Data · Systems

Sarah Novotny

Cloud · Open source · Product

Jeremy Geiger

Growth · Startups · AI

Brady Forrest

Venture Partner · Startups · Community

Advisory relationships are informal and do not imply exclusive engagement or endorsement.

Contact

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