AIN Ventures

Proteus Space designs and builds custom satellite buses and provides payload integration, including complete bus builds with payload installation, environmental testing and qualification, and licensing and insurance services for missions. The company also develops autonomous digital engineering and digital twin systems to support modeling, engineering and testing of custom satellites, enabling designers to model, engineer and test missions while reducing errors and increasing production speed.

NOVI LLC is a technology company based in Arlington, Virginia, specializing in hardware and data analytics platforms tailored for the infrastructure, manufacturing, and space and defense sectors. Founded in 2017, NOVI focuses on addressing key challenges in Earth Observation (EO) services by providing on-board edge computing and low-cost multi-sensor satellites. These innovations aim to reduce the cost, complexity, and latency of utilizing space-based data, thereby democratizing access to EO capabilities. The company's offerings include flexible spacecraft bus systems, guidance, navigation and control systems, as well as services such as asphalt inspection and repair, physical damage detection, inspection and flaw detection, and dimensional verification.

Locus Lock is a global technology company specializing in advanced GPS solutions. It develops intelligent, software-defined GNSS receiver technology, delivering centimeter-accurate real-time positioning for both commercial and military applications. The company's expertise lies in capturing precise heading data for navigation and timing, along with advanced signal situational awareness and anti-spoofing capabilities, ensuring high-resolution location data.

Perceptive Space is a technology company developing an AI-driven platform to forecast and manage space weather conditions. This platform provides real-time, tailored predictions and decision support to satellite operators and launch providers, helping them extend mission lifetimes and reduce operational disruptions caused by harsh space environments.

Proteus Space designs and builds custom satellite buses and provides payload integration, including complete bus builds with payload installation, environmental testing and qualification, and licensing and insurance services for missions. The company also develops autonomous digital engineering and digital twin systems to support modeling, engineering and testing of custom satellites, enabling designers to model, engineer and test missions while reducing errors and increasing production speed.

Lux Semiconductors develops crystalline thin-film semiconductors used in flexible integrated circuits and designs metal-core substrates intended to replace traditional organic and glass cores in advanced semiconductor packages. The company's patented platform improves heat dissipation, power delivery, electromagnetic shielding, structural stability, and signal integrity, enabling manufacturers across data-center processors, AI accelerators, aerospace and defense electronics, automotive systems, battery management, and medical devices to overcome performance bottlenecks.

Proteus Space designs and builds custom satellite buses and provides payload integration, including complete bus builds with payload installation, environmental testing and qualification, and licensing and insurance services for missions. The company also develops autonomous digital engineering and digital twin systems to support modeling, engineering and testing of custom satellites, enabling designers to model, engineer and test missions while reducing errors and increasing production speed.

Solideon develops wire arc additive manufacturing WAAM solutions for large metallic components, enabling multi-robot, multi-tool manufacturing cells that produce finished parts in days rather than months. The company focuses on aerospace vehicle manufacturing and related infrastructure applications, leveraging additive manufacturing systems and machine-learning collaboration to build vehicles and infrastructure on Earth, the Moon, and Mars. This approach aims to expand space research capabilities and accelerate transportation and infrastructure projects, creating new opportunities across industries. Solideon emphasizes rapid production, scalable automation, and data-driven optimization to streamline fabrication of high-strength components for aerospace and other high-demand sectors.

Lux Semiconductors develops crystalline thin-film semiconductors used in flexible integrated circuits and designs metal-core substrates intended to replace traditional organic and glass cores in advanced semiconductor packages. The company's patented platform improves heat dissipation, power delivery, electromagnetic shielding, structural stability, and signal integrity, enabling manufacturers across data-center processors, AI accelerators, aerospace and defense electronics, automotive systems, battery management, and medical devices to overcome performance bottlenecks.

Inversion specializes in developing affordable, reusable spacecraft designed for commercial and defense industries. Their primary focus is creating autonomous re-entry vehicles to facilitate global cargo delivery, space station resupply, and resource return, aiming to make space exploration more accessible and sustainable.

Founded in 2018, Orbit Fab develops orbital propellant depots to expand operational potential of satellites. Its key products include Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface (RAFTI) for on-orbit refueling and docking, and Rigid Tanker International Space Station prototypes.