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Space Investor Sees Opportunities in Defense-Related Startups and AI-Driven Systems


Chad Anderson is the founder/managing partner of the early-stage VC Space Capital (and an investor in SpaceX, along with dozens of other space companies). Space Capital produces quarterly reports on the space economy, and he says today, unlike 2021, "the froth is gone. But so is the hype. What's lef...

"On Yahoo Finance he shares several of the report's insights — including the emergence of "investable opportunities across defense-oriented startups in space domain awareness, AI-driven command systems, and hardened infrastructure." China's simulated space " dogfights" prompted the US Department of Defense to double down on orbital supremacy, with the proposed " Golden Dome" missile shield potentially unleashing a new wave of federal spending... They remain underfunded relative to infrastructure and applications but are quietly powering the most critical systems, such as resilient communications, battlefield networks, and edge-based geospatial analysis.

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