Episode Details

Meagan Crawford, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SpaceFund and host of the Mission Eve podcast, joins the show to talk about the financing side of space. We talk about recent rounds of fundraising, acquisitions, holding companies, and she helps me sort through my thoughts on the whole Special Purpose Acquisition Company trend.

This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 36 executive producers—Brandon, Matthew, Simon, Lauren, Melissa, Kris, Pat, Matt, Jorge, Ryan, Donald, Lee, Chris, Warren, Bob, Russell, Moritz, Joel, Jan, Grant, David, Joonas, Robb, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Frank, Julian and Lars from Agile Space, Tommy, Matt, and seven anonymous—and 466 other supporters.

Topics

• Meagan Crawford (@MeaganMCrawford) / Twitter
• SpaceFund Venture Capital - Funding the Future | SpaceFund
• ‎Mission Eve on Apple Podcasts
• Mission Eve | Podcast on Spotify
• SpaceX raises $1.9 billion in equity - SpaceNews
• Relativity Space raises $500 million - SpaceNews
• OneWeb raises $400 million - SpaceNews
• Remote sensing satellite firm completes huge funding round as Chinese space sector activity accelerates - SpaceNews
• China’s Landspace raises $175 million for Zhuque-2 launch vehicles - SpaceNews
• China's First Commercial Rocket Company Raises USD181 Mln to Develop Kuaizhou Series of Carrier Rockets
• Lockheed Martin to Acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne, Strengthening Position as Leading Provider of Technologies to Deter Threats and Help Secure the United States and its Allies - Dec 20, 2020
• Space holding company Voyager to acquire Nanoracks, which added an airlock to the space station | Voyager Space Holdings
• Redwire acquires Made In Space - SpaceNews
• Richard Branson’s Virgin Turns to SPAC to Raise Cash - WSJ
• Momentus to go public with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. - SpaceNews

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