Space Is Heating Up: Big Money, Big Bets, Lunar Shockwaves, and the Race That Changes Everything Now
54m
In space and defense, capital markets are moving faster than anyone has clear answers for. Data centers in space are attracting serious money and serious skepticism in equal measure. Public market valuations are demanding a level of conviction that leaves little room for error. And NASA just rewrote its lunar roadmap while an astronaut crew prepares to fly around the Moon for the first time in fifty years.
Our guests this month are:
Mike Annunziata, Founder & Managing Partner of Also Capital
Mark Danchak, Co-Founder & General Partner of General Innovation Capital Partners
Mariana Perez Mora, Director, Bank of America Equity Research
We get into:
Why data centers in space will be willed into existence
What early-stage investors can see in space and defense founders that later-stage capital only appreciates once it's obvious
How public markets are actually pricing space and defense right now
The Palantir valuation framework: what you have to believe, and whether those beliefs hold
NASA's new lunar roadmap: Moon base over Gateway, crewed missions twice a year, and what it means for the commercial players already in the queue
Why Artemis II launching tomorrow is a bigger deal than most people are treating it