The long road to success.
Talks about Startup, entrepreneurship and business expansion
We back extraordinary teams and founders disrupting the status quo, be it on-or-off planet Earth. Inspired by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev’s method for measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement - the Kardashev scale. Type One Ventures exists to empower entrepreneurs providing the technology, infrastructure, and services that will be integral to the growth and advancement of mankind. Type One Ventures is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and also has offices in London and Singapore.
Type One Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage investments in aerospace, robotics, AI, and longevity.
Mining the moon
Making in-space transportation abundant
Raised $9,900,000.00 from Stellar Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Type One Ventures and AIR Capital.
Lunar Rovers. Infrastructure & Mobility on the lunar surface.
Lunar Outpost provides advanced spacecraft and robotics solutions for space missions.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from Promus Ventures, Industrious Ventures and Type One Ventures.
Big space stations. Artificial gravity.
Gravitics is an aerospace company that designs and manufactures large space structures for human life in space.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Giant Steps Capital, Sprint Vc, Spectre, Van Espahbodi, Manhattan West, Type One Ventures, Helios Capital, Draper Associates, FJ Labs and Mana Ventures.
Big rockets. Mars.
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.
Raised $9,770,343,846.00 from Roman Smolevskiy.
XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery.
Raised $12,384,679,312.00 from Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Qatar Investment Authority and CoreNest Capital.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.
Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.
Space Forge is transforming return from space to deliver revolutionary experiments and products, for the benefit of humanity. Founded in 2018 to use the benefits of the space environment to make new materials that are not possible on Earth. We are developing a returnable manufacturing platform that reduces the costs of accessing space and returning to our planet. In-Space manufacturing will deliver the next generation of products that are critical to a sustainable Type One Civilization. Lead investor in the seed round and board member.
Kogia is a free library of ocean photography and video from around the world, free to use for small ocean conservation organizations, non- profits, activists, marine scientists and artists who are working to protect our oceans.
Radian is building a horizontal take off and horizontal landing space plane.
Talks about Startup, entrepreneurship and business expansion