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Portfolio Job of the Week: Star Catcher is hiring! 📍 Jacksonville, Florida 💼 Optical systems engineer & senior systems engineer Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eUEf5Pt4 Star Catcher’s mission is to eliminate power constraints on satellites and other spacecraft by constructing the Star Catcher Network: the world’s first space-based energy grid. Learn more: https://star-catcher.com/ Looking for other roles? Join the Initialized Talent Den so we can share your resume with our hiring companies: https://lnkd.in/emi5DpST

Did you know 72% of founders report an impact on their mental health, including conditions like high stress, anxiety, and burnout? On the Initialized Capital blog, managing partner Jennifer Wolf shares strategies for recognizing early burnout signs, finding a productive flow state, and seeking help from mentors, peers, or professional coaches. Key Takeaways: • Recognizing when you are in a flow state can help you understand when you are most productive and when you need a break. • Ensure you’re ready to do the work, and ask the right questions before signing up for a coach. • Break down deadlines into smaller, manageable pieces with frequent checkpoints. Read more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gJ8PCdxC

Great to hang with some of our New York-based founders tonight at our summer happy hour.

We are thrilled to announce the public launch of Star Catcher and the close of our $12.25M Seed Round! Our mission is to eliminate the constraints of power generation on space. To do this, we are building the Star Catcher Network, the world's first power grid in space, for space.   Led by our founders Andrew Rush, Michael Snyder, and Bryan Lyandvert, Star Catcher offers:   Power to Do More - The Star Catcher Network will beam power from our own satellites to customer satellites, constellations, orbital data centers, and space stations to give them more power and high concentrations of power to enable them to increase capability, uptime, mission life, and more.   No Retrofit Required - Power is provided to the client's existing solar arrays in the form of light from the portion of the spectrum that solar arrays are highly efficient at converting to electricity. No custom receiver is required meaning satellites flying or in final design today are compatible with the Star Catcher Network!   Enhancing Satellite Power - The Star Catcher Network can provide the power you need in LEO when and where you need it. From a few hundred Watts to dozens of kilowatts and at concentrations varying from 1 Sun of flux to 10 Suns of flux, enabling your existing solar panels to generate up to 10 times the power they make without the Star Catcher Network.   Shift CapEx to OpEx and Save Overall - Using the Star Catcher Network enables you to deliver missions with five or ten times more demanding power budgets without having to buy a satellite bus that is five to ten times more expensive. Our pay-as-you-go pricing lets you operate at much higher power levels with more cost effective spacecraft.   We are grateful to our talented and experienced investors, especially our co leads Initialized Capital and B Capital ! In particular, thank you Howard Morgan, Brett Gibson, and Andrew Sather. With their support and conviction, we are well positioned to make our vision of a power constraint free space a reality.    Learn more about Star Catcher: www.star-catcher.com We're hiring! Join our team: https://lnkd.in/gGuaNP95 Read our press release: https://lnkd.in/gRHhFJWt   This is Space Power.   #SpaceTechnology #SpacePower #SatelliteTech #SpaceInnovation #TechStartups #SeedFunding #SpaceExploration #SpaceMission #SatellitePower #StarCatcher #InnovationInSpace #AerospaceEngineering #NewTech #TechNews #FutureOfSpace #PowerGrid #TechInvestors #VentureCapital #StartupSuccess #SpaceIndustry #SpaceTech #TechLaunch #BusinessInnovation #EngineeringExcellence #FundingAnnouncement

We are excited to announce our investment in Star Catcher, a company aiming to remove power limitations on satellites by building the first space-based energy grid. Utilizing its unique power beaming technology, Star Catcher will transmit energy to other satellites, enhancing their power and uptime while reducing upfront costs and overall mission expenses. "Most maturing sectors require solid, dependable, ubiquitous infrastructure to truly take off. We’re confident Star Catcher will do for orbital power what SpaceX has done for launches. They’re a proven, veteran commercial space team executing an audacious vision at high speed. What they’re building has the potential to transform the economics, capabilities, and even the configuration of almost everything we put into orbit.” -Andrew Sather, our principal. Thank you Dean Takahashi for sharing their story in VentureBeat ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eSrNUk2v

Today I am excited to announce the public unveiling and a $12M Seed round of my new company - Star Catcher! My entire career has been about enabling, transforming, and expanding humanity's utilization of space. From my time as CEO of Made In Space, when we built the first space-capable 3D printers and showed the world that we have the ability to produce space-enabled materials like ZBLAN, to my time as President & COO of Redwire Space, where we expanded the power generation capability of the International Space Station, I have always believed that innovation in the space industry is the best way to take humanity forward. Now I am excited to share my next project. Alongside my co-founders Michael Snyder and Bryan Lyandvert and the full team at Star Catcher, we’re tackling a constraint that affects all of us in space: power. Power is the lifeblood of any satellite. Having enough power is the difference between being able to send a clear signal or a weak one, being able to operate continuously, having reserves to maneuver without regret, or being able to utilize the latest GPU’s on orbit. In order to realize the full potential of space commercialization, we have to make it as easy to build a business in space as it is on the ground. Shared terrestrial infrastructure like the power grid enables commerce and industry to flourish here on Earth. Shared space infrastructure will enable the space industry to flourish in LEO and beyond. That's our motivation at Star Catcher: to drive the growth of the space industry by creating the world's first power grid in space. We are grateful to our talented and experienced investors, including our co-leads Andrew Sather and Brett Gibson at Initialized Capital, and Howard Morgan at B Capital . With their support and conviction, we are well-positioned to make our vision of a power- constraint free space a reality. Read more at SpaceNews: https://lnkd.in/g8rAMCYR We’re looking for the builders who share our vision of true space infrastructure. If you’re interested in joining our mission, please check out our careers page here: https://lnkd.in/g6mViUBs    #SpaceTechnology #SpacePower #SatelliteTech #SpaceInnovation #TechStartups #SeedFunding #SpaceExploration #SpaceMission #SatellitePower #StarCatcher #InnovationInSpace #AerospaceEngineering #NewTech #TechNews #FutureOfSpace #PowerGrid #TechInvestors #VentureCapital #StartupSuccess #SpaceIndustry #SpaceTech #TechLaunch #BusinessInnovation #EngineeringExcellence #FundingAnnouncement

SPATE nyc uses AI to analyze over 20 billion consumer signals from Google Search and TikTok to help brands stay ahead of market trends. In this month’s “My First” blog series, cofounder Yarden Horwitz discusses their first partnership experience with the DECIEM | THE ABNORMAL BEAUTY COMPANY team, the company behind The Ordinary line of skincare products like Retinol. "It’s important to remember that partnerships are about people and relationships. Use a 'Yes, and' mentality when others bring their ideas or suggestions. Don’t have your guard up—be genuinely open to their perspectives and ideas." — Yarden Horwitz, Spate cofounder. Today, Spate collaborates with over 200 brands in the beauty, food, and beverage industries, including L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Unilever, and Procter & Gamble. Learn more ⬇ https://lnkd.in/egEGRFgG

Portfolio Job of the Week: Greptile is hiring! 📍 San Francisco 💼 Business development representative Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eKp5MyWP Greptile is an AI expert on any codebase that reviews pull requests, answers hard questions about linear codebases, and writes Linear tickets descriptions. Learn more: https://www.greptile.com/ Looking for other roles? Join the Initialized Talent Den so we can share your resume with our hiring companies: https://lnkd.in/g-kT-ihk

I'm excited for Caliza to be partnering with the good folks at Initialized Capital, particularly, Abdul Ly. We've long had discussions on the difficulties of borderless payments going back a decade now. Great piece by him here on the opportunity ahead! https://lnkd.in/d6EQD79r

An honor speaking at Fortune Brainstorm tech about mental health for founders and the key role co-founders play in weathering the lows and enjoying the highs - Jennifer Hyman grateful for our continued journey together most of all. Was fitting having the discussion with Andy Dunn as peers and advisers have been a huge piece of the puzzle - lucky to have Dan Rosensweig, Scott Friend, Dan Nova, Marc Lore, Beth J. Kaplan, Carley Roney and many more in my corner. Grateful to build relationships and share learnings with the next generations of founders at Initialized Capital. Our Partnership of founder/operators has naturally made empathy and founder relationships the cornerstone of our strategy.