About | Space VC

Our strategy

We believe startups play a crucial role in accelerating the adoption of technologies that shape our future. Whether in AI, space, defense, intelligence, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, autonomy and robotics — these technologies will all define their respective industries for the next several generations to come.

Space VC is building a concentrated portfolio of the world's most promising frontier tech startups.

We seek to partner on Day Zero with founders — as they’re incorporating the company or going through the early idea maze. Space VC will partner and invest in 15 exceptional entrepreneurs per fund at the Pre-Seed stage, ensuring our incentives are aligned and enabling us to exclusively focus on accelerating their success.

Advancing Global Resilience

Building & investing in frontier tech requires deep intellectual curiosity, an audacious vision, and the ambition to solve some of the most challenging problems we face.

Our world is increasingly complex and full of these large-scale challenges: geopolitical tensions and conflict, supply chain vulnerabilities, rapid adoption and usage of AI, aging manufacturing and industrial base capacity.

By strategically investing and partnering with founders solving these large challenges, we aim to contribute to our collective national security, economic resilience, and global leadership — we refer to this as Global Resilience, coined by our friends at General Catalyst.

$50M

Assets Under Management

Fund II

Currently Deploying From

$1B+ Raised

by our Portfolio Companies

What we seek

World Class Founders

The heart and soul of a startup belongs to its people. No one embodies this more than the Founder of a company. We seek out and pursue exceptional founding teams. Often a combination of technical skills with business acumen. Strong leadership. An insatiable appetite to succeed paired with a willingness to learn and grow. We seek long-term partnership, not shotgun arrangements.

Big Markets, Urgent Problems

There are many important and interesting challenges to solve in frontier tech. We reserve our investments for founders pursuing the largest and most important ones in their respective sectors. Critically, these also must solve an urgent, pressing challenge for customers.

Near-Term Commercialization

We do not invest in startups with deep R&D cycles or ones considered science experiments. We assess the product roadmap under the time and capital constraints of each financing round, and ensure customers exist with capacity to acquire their technology in short order.

Jonathan Lacoste General Partner & Founder

Jonathan Lacoste is the General Partner and Founder of Space VC. He has been in the startup & venture capital ecosystem for 15+ years as an entrepreneur, investor and advisor. Jonathan has invested in many of the most consequential space, defense and frontier tech startups since 2021.

For portfolio companies, Jonathan is often known as the most helpful and proactive VC on the cap table, especially when making customer, government, talent, and fundraising introductions for founders. Jonathan leverages his founder experience to partner and support entrepreneurs in the most crucial moments of their founding journeys.

Jonathan was previously the co-founder of an enterprise software company for a decade before being successfully acquired by Vista. He was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to raise venture capital at age 19. Jonathan briefly attended Boston College and Harvard before dropping out his sophomore year. Jonathan is originally from Ohio.