# Starship Ventures

Investor in San Francisco, California

## About Starship Ventures

Starship Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2022, an SEC-registered investment adviser backing contrarian deep tech founders turning science fiction into reality across advanced materials, aerospace, geoengineering, AI, logistics, and energy. The firm raised over $30 million for its debut fund from external limited partners.

The firm's investment thesis, described as "Renaissance Technology," centers on atoms, bits, and biology: hardware, robotics, energy, and advanced manufacturing; intelligence, software, and AI infrastructure; and biotech platforms treating biology as an engineering discipline, all converging with massive markets.

Starship's portfolio includes Reflect Orbital (space-based mirrors redirecting sunlight), Pipedream Labs (underground autonomous delivery), Rainmaker (next-generation cloud seeding), Lumina (all-electric heavy construction equipment), BRINC Drones (tactical UAVs developed with LVMPD SWAT), Klura Labs (antimicrobial food packaging), and Merge Labs (brain-computer interfaces).

The firm's investment approach favors technically sophisticated, repeat founders building patient, multi-decade, capital-intensive technologies, drawing on a geographically distributed sourcing network spanning Japan, the UK, and Europe, alongside named operator relationships for domain-specific diligence and deal flow.

## People

- **Sean Hoge**, Founder & General Partner

## Key Facts

- **Location:** San Francisco, California
- **Investor Type:** Venture Capital
- **Founded:** 2017

## Investment Industries

- Aerospace
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Energy
- Technology/Web/App
- Logistics/Transportation
- Other

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