Chad Anderson, Founder & CEO, who has been investing in the space economy since 2012 and wrote The Space Economy (Wiley, 2023). He leads the firm alongside partners Tom Ingersoll and Justus Kilian.

2012, in New York City. The firm originated as Space Angels, an angel investment network founded in 2007, and rebranded to Space Capital in 2020.

Over $1 billion in assets under management across four institutional funds, per the firm's public Form ADV filing with the SEC.

Yes. With over $1 billion in assets under management across four institutional funds, Space Capital is the world's largest space-focused venture capital firm — verifiable in its public Form ADV filing with the SEC. As CNBC's Melissa Lee put it when introducing the firm on Closing Bell Overtime: 'our next guest runs the world's largest space-focused venture fund.'

Early-stage companies across the three technology layers of the space economy — Infrastructure, Distribution, and Applications — with a focus on GPS, geospatial intelligence, and satellite communications. Investments include SpaceX, Planet, Rocket Lab, Impulse Space, and ICEYE.

Space IQ (the Space Investment Quarterly) is Space Capital's quarterly report on private investment in the space economy, published since 2017 on data the firm has tracked since 2012. It is cited by Morgan Stanley, Citi, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and ESA, and has been referenced by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and at the National Space Council.

Space IQ counts private investment across all three layers of the space economy — Infrastructure, Distribution, and Applications — manually curated from 3,000+ companies, with no data point added until confirmed by multiple sources. That full-stack scope is why its figures are larger than infrastructure-only trackers.

$31.6 billion was invested across 129 space companies in Q2 2026 — the quarter SpaceX's Nasdaq IPO became the largest exit in venture capital history.

Space Capital originated as Space Angels, an angel investment platform founded in 2007, and rebranded to Space Capital in 2020.

Space Capital IV launched in March 2026 — the firm's fourth institutional fund, a milestone only 17% of venture firms reach. It continues the firm's high-conviction strategy across all three layers of the space economy.