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Jonathan Lacoste

@lacostejonathan

Investing in Pre-Seed Frontier Tech | @TheSpaceVC

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Congrats to 7earse & Karman Industries team on successfully building & testing Thermal01 in less than nine months A new thermal energy prime is arriving 🔥

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Love launch days! 🚀 SpaceX Transporter-14 is another busy one for Space VC portfolio Pulsar-0 from Xona Space Systems - commercial PNT! ForgeStar-1 from Space Forge - huge launch for in-space manufacturing & the UK space ecosystem YAM-10 from Loft with EarthDaily Analytics

Love launch days! 🚀

<a href="/SpaceX/">SpaceX</a> Transporter-14 is another busy one for <a href="/TheSpaceVC/">Space VC</a> portfolio

Pulsar-0 from <a href="/XonaSpace/">Xona Space Systems</a> - commercial PNT!

ForgeStar-1 from <a href="/Space_Forge/">Space Forge</a> - huge launch for in-space manufacturing &amp; the UK space ecosystem

YAM-10 from <a href="/LoftOrbital/">Loft</a> with <a href="/EarthDailyA/">EarthDaily Analytics</a>
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Another big week for Space VC portfolio company: ✅$92M in new funding ✅Series B led by Craft Ventures ✅$20M STRATFI ✅Launched Pulsar-0 satellite this week Congrats to Xona Space Systems team! Building the world's commercial PNT/GPS constellation 🛰️

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Water is Life Partnering with Vital Lyfe Water is life  —  and even with today’s technological marvels, we haven’t made enough progress delivering water to the entire world. 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, 3.5 billion lack proper sanitation, and 2.3 billion can’t

Water is Life

Partnering with Vital Lyfe

Water is life  —  and even with today’s technological marvels, we haven’t made enough progress delivering water to the entire world.

2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water, 3.5 billion lack proper sanitation, and 2.3 billion can’t
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Does it take more capital to build a deep tech startup? No, not necessarily. If you add median cash raised for Seed through Series C based on data from H1 2025, you get: Software: $75.3 million raised Deep tech: $81.9 million raised Time to build in atoms?

Does it take more capital to build a deep tech startup?

No, not necessarily. 

If you add median cash raised for Seed through Series C based on data from H1 2025, you get:

Software: $75.3 million raised
Deep tech: $81.9 million raised

Time to build in atoms?
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God bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Only in this country could the son of an immigrant & poor Appalachian family, raised in small town Ohio, drops out of college & becomes a VC investing in the technologies of tomorrow Eternally grateful🙏

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Prayers to all the families & communities affected by the flash flooding here in central Texas 🙏🏻 Especially the children at summer camp still missing, an unthinkable tragedy 😔

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To bring new life into the world is the ultimate act of faith A belief that tomorrow is still worth dreaming about. Offline for paternity leave & fully embracing life as a first-time Dad 💙

To bring new life into the world is the ultimate act of faith

A belief that tomorrow is still worth dreaming about.

Offline for paternity leave &amp; fully embracing life as a first-time Dad 💙
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We The Builders EPISODE 1 is LIVE with Shahin Farshchi at Lux Capital Shahin has invested in companies manufacturing in space (Varda Space Industries), building autonomous transportation systems (Zoox), providing robots as a service (Formic), automating industries (Covariant), using

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.Apple desperately needs a new, aggressive product development approach to AI. And likely new leadership for the next decade of AI-centric hardware next move: Apple acquires OpenAI, Sam Altman becomes new CEO?

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The oceans hold 97% of Earth’s water. Vital Lyfe we’re building tech to make it drinkable, anytime, anywhere. This glass came from the Long Beach harbor. Clean, safe, and ready to scale.

The oceans hold 97% of Earth’s water.

<a href="/VitalLyfe/">Vital Lyfe</a> we’re building tech to make it drinkable, anytime, anywhere.

This glass came from the Long Beach harbor.
Clean, safe, and ready to scale.
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"the 2 fundamental challenges with DoD weapon systems are affordability and production at scale...that's what kept pulling me back to Castelion" Congrats to Castelion on another impressive hire

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A massive congrats to Pixxel for winning the bid for India’s national EO constellation 🛰️ Awais Ahmed & Kshitij Khandelwal continue to exhibit the exciting promise of the Indian space industry 🇮🇳

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Too many VCs try to be Chief Engineer when evaluating hardware startups. You’re not. There’s a reason you’re the investor, not the founder. Assess if the technology works, why it matters & if the team is exceptional.

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In frontier tech, scarcity can be your strongest asset. "There’s only one. Join now or wait in line.” Love these anecdotes from how Topher Haddad sold out initial capacity for Albedo

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“Our moral responsibility…is to protect & defend U.S. satellites against the many growing threats” Another reason why we backed True Anomaly & the significant role Space Security will play in the coming decade

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Paul is discovering the defense prime death spiral outsource supply chain -> lose control of iteration speed -> costs explode -> design changes die in committee -> 10 years late, $5B over budget