SpaceFund Recent News and Upcoming Events

SpaceFunders! We hope you’re having a great summer and just wanted to take a moment to update you on some recent press and upcoming events.  As you have likely all seen, there has been a significant increase in media activity about our industry due to the recent launches of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. Additionally, Boeing’s Starliner is scheduled to launch this coming Tuesday, and the pace of space activity continues to increase. 

We’ve been heads down cultivating new investment opportunities for Space Fund Two. Expect some exciting announcements soon about our developing portfolio. Meanwhile, see below for some highlights of recent news and upcoming events where you can catch our team both virtually and in-person.
 

SPACEFUND IN THE NEWS

• Article in SpaceRef: New Managing Partner Joins SpaceFund Investment Team 

• Rick Tumlinson, OpEd in Space.com: Space, Race and Reality.

• Rick Tumlinson, OpEd on Space.com: Billionaires and Space – The Right Race

• Rick Tumlinson quoted in the New York Times: Start-Ups Aim Beyond Earth: Advancements in space technology and new means of financing are driving a flurry of investor interest.

• Rick Tumlinson quoted in the New York Times: ‘Best Day Ever’: Highlights From Bezos and Blue Origin Crew’s Short Flight to Space

• Meagan Crawford quoted in Forbes: Billionaire Branson Sees Fortune Slide Towards Cash Burning Space Startups.

• Meagan Crawford quoted in Bloomberg: Branson’s Flight Validates the Space SPACs That Virgin Started.

• Meagan Crawford quoted in the Houston Chronicle: Houston, we have an investment: Space-tech firms turn to blank-checks.

• Meagan Crawford, in her role as chair of the board of the non-profit Space Frontier Foundation, quoted in a press release, SFF Receives $1 million from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future.

• Meagan Crawford featured on the team section of the website of SpaceFund portfolio company, OrbitFab.

• Article in SpaceRef: SpaceFund Venture Capital Announces First Close of Second Fund.

• Article in SpaceRef: SpaceFund Announces Full Deployment of First Fund.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Meagan Crawford to be a contributor/special guest on SpaceChannel.com’s live coverage of Boeing’s Starliner launch on August 3. 

• Meagan Crawford to be a panel moderator of the panel titled “In-Space Production Application to Shape Future of the Space Economy” at the virtual International Space Station Research and Development Conference on August 3.

• Meagan Crawford to be an in-person speaker at the Space Symposium, August 23 – 26.

• Rick Tumlinson and Meagan Crawford to be in-person speakers at the North American Space Summit, August 29 – 31.