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Jul 20, 2023 • 21min

Portfolio Spotlight: Richard Parker, Founder and CEO of Altitude Angel

Altitude Angel are world-leaders in the design and operation of next-generation aviation technologies, including solutions for automated uncrewed air traffic management at national scale. They don’t make drones, they make them safe. Their unique technologies help unlock the potential of drones to revolutionise businesses and transform lives by providing the digital infrastructure required to deliver UTM services, globally. Altitude Angel is a bit of an outlier in the Seraphim portfolio, being in ‘lower airspace’ rather than Space, which makes is an interesting and complementary addition to the portfolio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 29, 2023 • 14min

Portfolio Spotlight: Dominic Edmunds, CEO of PlanetWatchers

In this episode we meet with Dominic Edmunds. Dom is an experienced entrepreneur and CEO from the world of Big Data. Having built and grown a world-leading market business, he is now fully focussed on supporting innovation in the world of crop insurance through PlanetWatchers. PlanetWatchers technology turns months of manual assessment into minutes of automated analysis. With accurate and efficient analysis, available on a global scale the technology is used by the crop insurance industry to support insurance policies and validate claims data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 15, 2023 • 36min

Portfolio Spotlight: CEO of Hawkeye 360, John Serafini

In this episode you’ll hear from John Serafini. John is presently the CEO of HawkEye 360, the leading developer of space-based radio frequency (RF) collection, mapping, and analytic capabilities. Hawkeye 360 operates a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite constellation to identify, process and geolocate a broad set of RF signals. The data sourced creates powerful analytical products that solve hard challenges like maritime awareness and spectrum mapping and monitoring. Customers from all over the globe use this data both government and commercial entities. Find out all about John, his mission for Hawkeye and how RF data is improving life on Earth.Production by Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 1, 2023 • 25min

Portfolio Spotlight: Anthony Baker, Founder and CEO of Satellite Vu

In this episode you'll hear from Anthony Baker. Anthony is the Founder and CEO of Satellite Vu an earth observation company specializing in providing actionable insights from satellites to address global challenges such as climate change by detecting where we are wasting energy. Find out what's next for Satellite Vu, when they'll be launching on SpaceX and why they are known as the thermometer in the sky.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 18, 2023 • 33min

Portfolio Spotlight: Voyager

In the second episode of our portfolio spotlight series, we chatted with Dylan Taylor. Dylan is the Chairman & CEO of Voyager Space. Dylan is an active pioneer in space exploration, he’s a CEO, investor and a commercial astronaut. Find out all about Dylan’s journey into the Space industry and what his mission is for Voyager. Voyager Space (Voyager) is a space exploration company dedicated to building a better future for humanity in space and on Earth. With over 35 years of spaceflight heritage and over 2,000 successful missions, Voyager is powering the commercial space revolution. Voyager delivers space station infrastructure and services and technology solutions to commercial customers, civil and national security agencies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 4, 2023 • 23min

Portfolio spotlight: CEO of Astroscale, Nobu Okada

In this episode you’ll hear from Nobu Okada. Nobu is the Founder and CEO of Astroscale. Astroscale is the first private company with a vision for the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations and is solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits. Today we’ll be finding out all about Astroscale and its founder – what the future holds for the company and why it’s so important to have a solution to space junk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 20, 2023 • 22min

Finding and investing in the best SpaceTech companies

In this episode you will find out how Seraphim discovers world changing SpaceTech companies and what their criteria is for investing. Space investment is a rapidly growing sector that has caught the attention of investors worldwide and Seraphim are the global leaders in the market. As technology continues to advance, the space industry has evolved beyond government-funded programs and is now a thriving commercial industry. The opportunities in space investment are vast, disrupting almost every industry on our planet.Produced and edited by Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Apr 6, 2023 • 33min

How to build a successful space company

In this episode of the Generation Space podcast, we will be finding out how to build a successful space company. You will hear from Rei Goffer, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Tomorrow.io, who is responsible for their space strategy. Tomorrow.io are an exciting company that didn’t initially intend to build a space business but is now about to launch one of the most advanced weather satellite constellations in existence.Produced by Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 23, 2023 • 19min

ESG in SpaceTech

In this episode we’ll be looking at how SpaceTech can help transform the way we monitor measure and report on ESG metrics and how Seraphim created an ESG policy to allow us to invest in world changing companies. This was developed to ensure all the Trust's existing and future portfolio company investments not only limit any negative impacts but also help space-tech companies reach net zero before government targets. The embedding of ESG requirements mean companies need to better understand everything from emissions to biodiversity, from water use to health and safety – and a whole lot more. Earth observation data is already incredibly detailed and improving all the time. EO data is crucial for companies to achieve their ESG goals. Find out more from the experts COO Sarah Shackleton and CIO James Bruegger.This is a Podot podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Mar 9, 2023 • 37min

Ensuring Space Remains Sustainable: The Truth About Space Junk

In this episode we’ll be looking at how we can ensure the space sector can remain sustainable as it undergoes unprecedented levels of growth. We’ll be talking about space junk how we measure and maintain and safely remove it. Leah and Mark from Seraphim are in conversation with Nick Shave, CEO of Astroscale, who specialises in working with international agencies to develop innovative solutions to capture this debris and Alan DeClerke who is EVP of Growth at LeoLabs. LeoLabs is a network of radars that produces high-resolution on objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). They provide debris avoidance services on more that 60% of all the current satellites in LEO.  Produced and edited by Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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