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5yr at the intersection of space, finance and strategy. Space applications for large terrestrial markets. Writing Intersections by Filip🚀🛰️

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

9 months

I repeat this phrase multiple times every day. The way to actually make money in space is to invest in a create businesses which use space to aid large and diverse terrestial markets. Those can grow big, deliver value and make this whole space thing matter. Amen.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

10 months

Never gets olds

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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I'm exploring failed space companies. Would like to write an article, but only if I find enough substance. My list atm. Whom would you add? - Plus Ultra Outpost - Vector Launch - Hiber - Starmesh - Loon - Planetary Resources - Urthecast

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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Finally - the promised article on Private Equity in the space industry is out today. Few details to add. Drop what you are doing, read the article and tell me what you think.

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Smartest guys in the room — Private Equity engagements in the space industry

When the news broke about Maxar’s takeover, it seemed to me the role of Private Equity funds in the space industries is underappreciated.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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🚀🇪🇺🇺🇸Wanted to do this for a long time. Spent my afternoon finding gaps in european space startup scene. The research is big, will share this small bit. Some fields we do well. Some we lead in. But others? Let's wake up. Thoughts?

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It's my birthday! Big one! I’m filled with gratitude for the happy and fulfilled life I got to live. I’m proud of who I am, but I’m far from who I want to be. As I start the new day tomorrow, I’m committed to work hard, trying to be a good person and the best version of myself.❤️

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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‼️Big news. I’m happy to report that today I incorporated my company Golem Ventures Space. Over the last months, I shared my plans with many of you and received great support I much appreciate. What does it imply?

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Never ask man his salary and European satellite manufacturer where the demand for 500 sats a year will come from

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. @aerospacelab_ has officially broken ground on its new megafactory, which will be capable of producing up to 500 satellites a year.

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Friends, if you have wondered, today is the day. I have an announcement to make. 🇸🇪 I'm proud and excited to share I got accepted to the Stockholm School of Economics and will be moving to Sweden this August...

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Five years ago today I started my career in the space industry. It became a centerpiece of my life, source of great friendship, purpose and excitement. I want to thank you all and look forward to contribute in our joint effort in the years to come. ♥️🚀🤑🛰️

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My Grandma passed away peacefully this morning and is on her way to reconnect with the Highest. "By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." (Gen 3:19)

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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It's out, It's out! I’m super excited to finally present the 2022 space funding dynamics report! Covering 150+ transactions on 63 pages, it attempts to make a contribution to understanding equity investments and M&A dynamics beyond simple headlines.

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Filip Kocian on LinkedIn: 2022 Space Funding Dynamics Report - teaser | 26 comments

It's out! I’m super excited to finally present the 2022 space funding dynamics report! Covering 150 transactions on 64 pages, it attempts to make a… | 26 comments on LinkedIn

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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Friends 🇺🇲! The moment has come. For the first time in my life, I'm flying to the US, to attend Satellite 2023 in DC. I will be in DC & New York and I'm highly considering Boston and Philadelphia. So excited. Waited ever since for this moment, let's make it count. 🔥

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Imagine you have dozens of SSA startups in your country desperately waiting gov't demand and you issue the contract to ArianneGroup and Eutelsat. Driving newspace in Europe my 🤦‍♂️.

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ArianeGroup Consortium to Lead French Space Situational Awareness Project

France is investing in a program to improve space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities, with French space agency CNES selecting a consortium led by

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Seeing so many space VCs emerge. Around 5 since start of the year. Thinking to start a podcast to discuss portfolio construction, sectors of interest and LP fundraising.

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Yesterday I listened to the best podcast of my life @AcquiredFM about TSMC. I feel like now I should tell everyone.

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Looking to buy a return capsule for 6 tonnes from GEO. note: very urgent

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Good Morning!

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Open Cosmos raises $50 million to expand Earth observation satellite business

Smallsat developer Open Cosmos has raised $50 million to expand the company and develop larger satellites and constellations focused on Earth observation.

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Never in my wildest dreams would I guess SpaceX paid 500M+ in stocks for Swarm Technologies. Absolutely f*cking blew my mind.

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Breaking: I'm resigning on all my positions to start Propellant Capital investing exclusively in spacecraft propulsions companies. High upside, margin potential, low competition. Might delta-V and healthy returns be on my side.

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Breaking: $2.1 billion spac successfuly closed its pre-seed round of 2.7M led by...

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Astra secures $2.7 million in additional financing

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Signing off. Thank you all for having me at SatShow.

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@mouthofmorrison @erikkulu

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Satellite Constellations - NewSpace Index

Concise original overview of upcoming commercial satellite constellations.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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In the next 1-3years we will unfortunately see a new wave of space startup/scaleups failures in Europe, because some round are completely absent of any connection to reality.

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Just finished an absolutely fabulous day at the @WSBW_Summit . I'm happy to report that @mouthofmorrison exists and the satellite business around the world is (mostly) safe, sound and growing.

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You can literrary call CEO of a Series C US Space company and they'll be like "let's make some money" but then this SME CEO of a company in Norway won't speak to you cuz you aren't the one person at ministry of education they need to speak to. FFS.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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I recently finished The Box (the book about shipping containers). So many takeaways relevant to the space economy. Some regulation better than none. We will get it wrong the first time but it can be changed. The early commercial results were mixed. Resulted in a massive market.

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Describe newspace in one line 10x more sats, 2x revenue increase. This says so much!

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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Kleos space goes banktrupt. Released by ASX press service today. Oh wow.

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Another blessed day in San Francisco, very glad for the chance to tour the Astranis HQ today. Very impressed with @jasonjoyride .

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

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I love chatting with space veterans. They are always like "I was the first to bring satellite internet to Turkmenistan" or "for 10 years I acted like an A&E for commercial GEO satellites" or "I merged two failed EO cos in 2005 and sold for billion dollars"

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Daan and I are hosting a small meetup for space/finance folks in New York city. I was already suprised how vibrant the community is - looking forward to meet friends old and new. @daancoster

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This is left to cover into my 2022 Space Funding Dynamics report. No way I finish it in May.

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"Pre-Seed and Seed stage should stay a friendly place. Partnering with other funds is lovely. I believe that the early stages of Venture Capital is not a scarcity based market. The more funds, the more companies, the better the outcome for humanity and capitalism" @AdamDraper

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@pbdes @JeanMarc_Nasr @esa @SpaceX I think the comment is funny. Aerospace in Europe is boring, so we should appreciate claims with some viral potential, especially while the company does its job properly, which is the case.

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Folks ask me how to break into the industry. There is a playbook. 1. Get interested, read, talk to people 2. start writing, don't stop, show you are smart, do it for free 3. people start taking you seriously 4. somebody offers you job/consulting worked for Aravind, Case, me...

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Let's play a game!

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Wow! HE360 to Acquire Aurora Insight from Maxar! For Maxar/Advent, this means further divestment and making $$$ For HE360, this means an extension of sensing frequencies. Aurora focused mostly on telco deployment, less Defense which is what HE360 does most afaik.

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Finished my last meeting in NY an hour ago. Great weak spent in DC and NYC. Two takeways. Personal - whatever I have been doing for the last 5.5years, it is working. Being open, honest, kind and full of energy, insightful, helpful, Work - it is an absolute bloodbath out there.

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One year ago I finished my last exam, went for a last hike at (2am to catch the sunrise), graduated, left Norway after two years, spent 24 hours with my family in Czechia and flew to Abu Dhabi the next day. Best week of my life. Beed a ride since.

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I promise I will come back to tweets of substance. But today is somewhat a testament of achievement for me. Probably rank #2 of my most important flight. Thanks for y'all support and see you soon. 🇺🇲

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Payam Banazadeh stepping down as a Capella's CEO to be replaced by Frank Backes, former SVP Federal at Kratos. Leadership change also at OroraTech a week ago. Multiple 100M+ raises today... what a day!

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DC treated us with a wonderful warm sunny day. I for one will spend rest of my day crunching slides. Started off with a great lunch with @RyanPuleo7

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Two unsolicited pieces of advice 1. you become a consultant by having people ask you questions. Once they start asking too many questions, you start charging them. 2. every good piece of content starts with a database. all my good articles are basically a spreadsheet in words.

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Satellite subsystems are the next hot commodity for space investors

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This has been my dream for a long time. I always wanted to see UN HQ in Vienna and Copuos working. Thankful to be a humble intern in the Czech delegation for this week. Remember, power is like a real estate.

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This is wild and serious. We already rejected one investment in the past over this concern. I don't think this is responsibility of investors - governments dealing with space companies need to employ better security screening.

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Head of Dutch satellite technology firm arrested for spying - DutchNews.nl

A Greek national who headed Brabant-based satellite technology firm Aratos has been arrested in Paris and charged with spying for Russia, according to FBI documents. The man, Nikos Bogonikolos, was...

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Just finished two strong days in Prague at the Engaged Investment conference. My first time meeting @dziwisz in person since our investment in March. Been pleasured also to contribute to the panel with other space VCs.

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Very often I receive advice which I haven't asked for. Today, for one, I got a ton of it I have actually asked for. Great chat and nice to meet @daancoster in NY today and talk about making moves in the big money world.

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First to share! Australian rocket and perhaps also satellite maker Gilmour Aerospace to raise 55M AUD series D at 605M AUD which should be c.400M USD valuation

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🇸🇪 Friends. My flight was wonderful and troublefree. I 'm happily in Stockholm. Ready to start this chapter of my life. 45th flight, 20th visited country. Fun space stuff scheduled for later this week.

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Another CEO of Nanoavionics is out of the company in under just 8 months. My understanding is that many good folks are leaving due to a culture clash w Kongsberg A&D.

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I'm yet to see a space startup without an LOI from OrbitFab in their deck.

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Greetings from London where I'm waiting for my last flight. And concluding my US journey. I will soon find an excuse to be back. Yesterday, I also finally managed to meet with @JeffCrusey after a year of near-misses. What a great end to my trip!

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This morning a Czech dude at a meeting told because he saw my article in the @payloadspace newsletter. I had not idea my article was there. Certainly made my day. You need to pay attention to the space industry I guess.

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A latest blogpost on the topic just dropped!

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I repeat this phrase multiple times every day. The way to actually make money in space is to invest in a create businesses which use space to aid large and diverse terrestial markets. Those can grow big, deliver value and make this whole space thing matter. Amen.

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The consequence of an influx of many new people into the space sector + a relative scarcity of successful space companies with venture scale outcomes leads to an unfortunate situation where you can easily spend 10 years around the sector w/o meeting anyone w real success.

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Non-space money is a real deal for space startups. Up until let's say 2019, all startups were queuing for a few "the space VCs" who however had basically zero money. Those people coming from outside (think Boost, Mac, Cantos and likes) really changed the game.

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I love Transporter launches. It is a moment for the space industry to come together and cheer for each other. This time is important for Golem as well. Stay tuned and good luck everyone.

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I'm changing the pricing for the report. Proofreaders = obviously free, Twitter buddies = free, friends, mentors, media, people I work with = free. People who never bother to talk with me but want 60 pages report gratis = not free. Fair enough? Out on Monday or Tuesday.

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Late this evening I will post some thoughts on vertical integration in the space industry and will keep hoping I can get viral before I land in Munich 11 hours later.

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I'm not sure how public are the rumours. But w/n months there should be an European space update which will blow all your minds.

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Just published the first issue of Groundsegment Monthly. Groundsegment is a super important yet underreported area of the space industry. Subscribe to stay change that!

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Difficult to overstate how important has Blaine been to me in the past years. So nice to catch up in person for the first time. Since 9/2020 I used every opportunity to talk w Blaine about Asia, satellites, finance. Learned so much & very grateful.

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Time to wrap up. Leaving the best conference I have ever been to. Met a lot of people, learned a ton of stuff. Had great time and reconnected with important friends. @euroconsultEC @SGAC

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And absolutely yes, once $ASTS hopefully achieves sustainable revenue generation at reasonable burn, it will be a terrific example of a space business with large and diversified terrestial customer base.

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Here we go!

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Since last week, Golem's portco company Odin Space lets successfully blast lethal pieces of debris into its sensor mounted atop D-Orbit's ION platform. Super excited to have this piece of hardware flying in space on an important mission.

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British startup powers up sensor for monitoring tiny orbital debris

Odin Space is preparing to start detecting tiny but potentially dangerous pieces of orbital debris in the coming weeks from a sensor on a recently launched space tug, according to the British...

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

8 months

We the people in the space industry seem to be never satisfied. Bankers complain about a lack of big enough deals, hiring people compain about a lack of talent, VC people complain about a lack of space startups, space law people complain about lack of regulations.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

5 months

In life, I have some goals. Then I work, I fullfil the goals, only to define more ambitious ones - and the cycle repeats. Nothing changing on that front. Thank you for making this possible and wishing you all a blessed 2024.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

2 months

I really struggle w young founders... on one hand out of all people I should know that they can do it... on the other hand are you really gonna build a space station as a BSc grad. I don't want to say no cuz that's wrong mindset but also c'mon.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

4 months

Oh sh*t. Good afternoon!

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 year

Published. How space companies fail. 4.7k words. Thank you for the support & engagement. "As a (space) startup, you have about 1.5 shots to fire. It is way too expensive to raise early equity rounds to fund more than one working prototype."

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How space companies fail. Episode 1

There is little existing coverage in understanding how space companies fail. This article is a contribution to fixing it.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

22 days

4 reasons why I love the US

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

24 days

Elon: I launch at 1/10 of the cost Elon: I'm connecting everybody to fast BB Will: daily coverage of the entire earth You: a SaaS blockchain marketplace for satellite data components payload interoperability

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

10 months

Had an absolutely hilarious day in Prague. Met people from NZ to Honduras. Got quizzed by a friend about the standard model of particle physics. Got some life advice from my Golem's partner. Topped it off with a little predeparture event. Flying out Monday 7th.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

3 months

Never ask optical relay constellation what happened to SpaceLink.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

6 months

Somebody desperately needs to write a 2023 update to this paper. And change cubesats to smallsats.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

2 years

I'm so proud to announce I won the SGAC scholarship and I'm heading to the @AerospaceGlobal in Abu Dhabi on the 24-26th of May. Shall you have a friend with a sofa in the Emirates, let me know.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

9 months

Alright folks we are getting onto some real numbers here.

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ArianeGroup Invests €27M More into MaiaSpace

As per public filings, ArianeGroup completed a €27 million investment into MaiaSpace on 27 June 2023. Filings indicate that MaiaSpace issued an additional 6.75 million shares as part of the agreeme...

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

2 months

as always an absolute pleasure to get together with Daan under unsually happy circumstances @daancoster

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

5 months

Imagine being @sara_spangelo and @longmier . You exit your startup to SpaceX for 500M but then you say to yourself, you know what, IoT ain't big enough, let connect every phone to a satellite instead. You dropped this 👑👑

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

11 months

I did some reflection on life over the past year or so. One of the funny changes to observe is how people's attitude towards me goes from "Who the fuck are you" to "Would you please be available for a call Mr Kocian" Commonly those are the same people which makes it really funny

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

11 months

Thales Group: All indications are that Telesat is still actively working to secure Lightspeed constellation debt financing + some financial guidance via @pbdes

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Thales Group: All indications are that Telesat is still actively working to secure Lightspeed...

TUPPER LAKE, NY — Thales Group Chief Executive Patrice Caine said his company has seen no…

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 year

Massive article coming out tomorrow.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 year

Here is my definitive travel plan. (3/10) - Budapest (3/11-12) - Philadelphia (3/12-16) - DC (3/16-19) - Boston (3/19-21) - New York After that - Vienna End of March - Amsterdam April/May - London Meet me on the road!

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 year

@general_pavel @amanpour @CNN @CNNPrima Original v anglictine:

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

3 months

One of questions I will be asking at SatShow is why do I know more consultants than people who actually do stuff.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

3 months

Always tell startups that using top down market sizing approach is completely useless, especially if the entry point is the 1.3T space economy 2030 made up figure.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 month

I completely missed this one! Skyloom raises 30M (and additional 18M contract some weeks back)

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Broomfield space-comms firm Skyloom raises $30M

Broomfield space-communications firm Skyloom Global Corp. has raised nearly $30 million in investment capital.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

11 months

19 years and 11 months sober. Turned out pretty well. 10/10 would recommend.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

11 months

On Monday I'm releasing fundraising numbers for a cohort of space which raised rounds in 2021. (Also a chance for one of you to check my data and critique my method before release). I believe the presence of quality data increases the quality of the discussion we are having.

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

2 years

It's my birthday today. I believe in hard work and curiosity. I'm grateful for the people I've met. More than ever, I'm committed to work hard to to deserve what I want. Life is about making choices and facing consequences. 🛰️🚀

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 month

Running a company be like. Paying taxes. Paying more taxes. Paying different taxes. Reporting taxes. Claiming back taxes. Paying yet another tax. What have I done!

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

5 months

Me and all my friends - to the best of my knowledge - are safe following yesterday's shooting attack. I want to express my deepest condolences to injured and killed. Importantly, this is an isolated incident in what is still one of the safest countries in the world. 🖤

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Filip investing in space startups (🇮🇱,🚀,🛰️,💸)

1 month

🇺🇸🇺🇸 Friends - for the first time in my life, I'm headed to the west coast. I will be in SF Bay Area from May 5th - 12th. Super stoked, looking forward to see everyone.

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