1517 Fund
1517 Fund is a venture capital investment firm established in 2015 and based in Telluride, Colorado. The firm specializes in providing pre-seed and seed funding to technology startups, particularly those led by makers, hackers, and scientists who operate outside traditional educational institutions. 1517 Fund aims to empower individuals who may not follow conventional paths by supporting their passion projects and encouraging a learn-by-doing approach. The fund focuses on early-stage companies in the software, hardware, and deep tech sectors, specifically targeting dropouts, renegade students, and innovative scientists. Through its investments, 1517 Fund seeks to foster the development of new technologies and ideas.
Top Stages
Past deals in Alaska
Space Perspective
Series A in 2021
Space Perspective Inc. is a spaceflight company based in Merritt Island, Florida, founded in 2019. It specializes in offering high-altitude balloon trips to the edge of space through its innovative spaceship, Neptune. The company aims to provide unique space travel experiences for tourists, allowing them to witness the curvature of the Earth from a stratospheric altitude. Flights are launched from Florida's Space Coast, specifically from the historic runway used by the Space Shuttle. Space Perspective plans to expand its operations to additional launch sites, including Cecil Spaceport in Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska, among others. The pressurized capsule used for these flights ascends to approximately 100,000 feet, remains at that altitude for two hours, and then descends slowly under the balloon, ultimately splashing down in the ocean for retrieval.
Space Perspective
Seed Round in 2020
Space Perspective Inc. is a spaceflight company based in Merritt Island, Florida, founded in 2019. It specializes in offering high-altitude balloon trips to the edge of space through its innovative spaceship, Neptune. The company aims to provide unique space travel experiences for tourists, allowing them to witness the curvature of the Earth from a stratospheric altitude. Flights are launched from Florida's Space Coast, specifically from the historic runway used by the Space Shuttle. Space Perspective plans to expand its operations to additional launch sites, including Cecil Spaceport in Florida, Hawaii, and Alaska, among others. The pressurized capsule used for these flights ascends to approximately 100,000 feet, remains at that altitude for two hours, and then descends slowly under the balloon, ultimately splashing down in the ocean for retrieval.
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