Keith Masback
Principal Consultant at PLUM RUN
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal Consultant
2019 - Current
Principal, Founding Team
2024
Board Member
2024
Formerly Descartes Labs Government (DLG); Board Member, Descartes Labs, Inc. January - October 2024
Independent Board Member
2023
Investor
2020
Cognitive Space develops a generation machine intelligence platform for satellite constellation management.
Raised $9,620,000.00 from OpAmp Capital.
Member Of The Board Of Advisors & Investor
2020
Xona Space Systems develops satellite services for positioning, navigation, and timing to support the advancement of intelligent systems.
Raised $39,424,995.00 from الياس الجبل, Murata Manufacturing, Space Capital, NGP Capital, Future Ventures, Seraphim Space, Aloniq and Industrious Ventures.
Advisor & Investor
2019
Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation network.
Raised $215,955,107.00 from Sahin Boydas, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Sam Altman, Bling Capital, Khosla Ventures, RTX Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Canaan Partners, Pallas Ventures and Keith Masback.
Investor
2021
Strategic Advisor 2021-2023
Building satellites to capture the ultra-high resolution 10 cm visible imagery, co-collected with 2 m thermal imagery.
Raised $93,000,000.00 from Shield Capital, Initialized Capital, Booz Allen Ventures, Republic capital, Giant Step Capital, Y Combinator, Bill Perkins, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Cubit Capital and Jetstream.
Investor
2023
Search engine for all of Earth's data
Raised $7,825,000.00 from Tech Square Ventures, Leo Polovets, Space.VC, Shield Capital, Radius Capital and Humba Ventures.
Advisor & Investor
2021
Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery company that provides timely wide-scale imagery from the stratosphere at affordable prices.
Raised $14,500,000.00 from IAG Firemark Ventures.
Strategic Advisor
2021
Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts.
Raised $258,949,997.00 from Pitango VC, Chemonics, Clearvision Ventures, Seraphim Space, RTX Ventures, Activate Capital Partners, Square Peg Capital, JetBlue Ventures and Canaan Partners.
Education
BA
1983 - 1987
HS Diploma
1979 - 1983