Building and expanding the
NEWSPACE ECONOMY
Through personalized education and engineered financial tools for both entrepreneurs and investors, we catalyze space commerce for industrialization, exploration, and settlement.
The world's longest-running space business plan competition
In the last decade, over 200 companies have participated in the competition and associated educational programs, gaining real-world fundraising experience and practical advice to improve their business ideas. We have awarded over $350,000 in cash prizes to promising startups, through various regional and national events. Along the way, more than 60 companies were publicly showcased to investors and customers, catalyzing millions in deal flow.
Providing accredited investors with practical and actionable information
The Space Investment Summit (SIS) is a one-day educational event designed to provide the investment community with an in-depth understanding of investing in this new industry. SIS features speakers and panel discussions from leading space investors and top space entrepreneurs, providing the audience with a unique look into the space industry’s market dynamics, investment climate, exit strategies, unique concerns and opportunities, and more.
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Lunar Station Construction: The Backbone of a Self-Sustaining cisLunar Economy
Guest post by Sean Key For decades, visions of space commerce have leaned heavily on speculative exports such as Helium 3 or rare lunar metals. While these ideas capture imagination, they are far from the economic foundations needed to establish permanence in space....
Demographic Decline and the Future of Commercial Space and Deep Tech
Guest post by Sean Key Introduction Global birth rates are falling and populations are aging. The global fertility rate has dropped from nearly five children per woman in the 1950s to about 2.3 in 2023 (Our World in Data), with many nations now well below replacement....
From Risk Assessment to Market Creation: How the Tier Method™ Can Transform Emerging Technology Finance
by Sean Key Frontier industries like commercial space and deep tech have always faced the same paradox: they are too important to ignore, yet too uncertain for traditional financial models. Investors often struggle to price risk when there is no operating history, no...