Meet the Money Behind Planetary Resources, Dauria Aerospace
Business Insider takes a look at Ilya Golubovich and Mike Lousteau of I2BF Global Ventures, a company that’s backing some big-name space start-ups:
Known as green tech investors, Golubovich, based in Moscow, and Lousteau, in New York, have fallen in love with the nascent space industry. They’ve backed three space companies so far: Dauria Aerospace, Planetary Resources and CloudEO, with more on the way, making them one of most active space tech investors on Earth….
“One of our first investments was Planetary Resources co-founded by Eric Anderson, Diamandis, two visionaries. With this type of innovation, their market can be in the trillions, mining precious metals on nearby asteroids,” says Golubovich. I2BF was the sole investor in the company’s $1.5 million seed round….
That’s how they founded Dauria Aerospace, which is building low-cost satellites, launching them into space and letting anyone write apps for them. I2BF has invested $20 million of the company’s total $30 raised….
CloudEO collects vast amounts of data from various satellites and lets anyone write geo-location apps with that. Those are apps that can track your location and use that to help the app, whether its finding a parking spot or documenting your photos.
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If you look at the facebook pages for Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries what a difference. Planetary actually shows pictures of hardware, labs, people working on things. Deep Space, links about everything but what they are doing.
With DSI you generally get the idea that they have an intern somewhere who logs in once every other week, retweets a bunch of (by then) old headlines and then calls it a day 😛