Spacetech Is Venture Capital’s Final Frontier

David Cowan, TechCrunch
Sun, 03/01/2015 - 12:30pm

Venture-backed companies like SpaceX, Skybox, Planet Labs, Rocket Lab and O3B disrupt the aerospace industry with faster, cheaper, better products. Unencumbered by government bureaucracy, this new breed of enterprise can move quickly, attract the best talent with equity ownership, and take calculated design risks that government contractors cannot afford to.

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