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Space Capital Is Betting the Next Great Software Platform Is 12,000 Miles Up
The New York venture firm treats rockets as plumbing and satellite data as raw material. Its real wager is that GPS, geospatial intelligence and satellite communications will become the quiet infrastructure beneath everyday business.
SpaceKnow Inc.
SpaceKnow is a geospatial intelligence company that turns satellite imagery into near-real-time answers about the physical world. Its AI-powered platform, SpaceKnow Guardian, fuses optical and radar data from many satellite providers and applies proprietary machine-learning algorithms to detect objects, track change, and generate economic indices for defense, finance, construction, and environmental customers. Founded in 2013 by Pavel Machalek and Jerry Javornicky, the company is best known for economic nowcasting products like its China Satellite Manufacturing Index, which has appeared on Bloomberg Terminals.
Onlife
Onlife is a spatial-AI company that turns where people go into what they might do next. It began as the parent company behind Aglet, a location-based 'sneakerverse' game that had players walking real streets to collect virtual sneakers, then used the resulting movement data to build a Spatial Behavioral Engine and a consumer 'Smart Map' that fuses calendars, to-do lists and location into a self-organizing daily planner. Founded by former adidas trends director Ryan David Mullins, Onlife straddles the line between a playful consumer app and a serious geospatial-intelligence platform.
Garrett Smith
Garrett Smith is the founder and CEO of Reveal Technology, a Bozeman, Montana defense-tech company that turns drone video into offline 3D maps and runs mobile biometrics on a phone at the tactical edge. A former U.S. Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer who still serves in the reserves, Smith built the company he wished he had in combat, where he was making high-stakes decisions off pen-and-paper maps in a digital war. Reveal's Farsight and Identifi platforms are used by U.S. Special Operations, the Army, the Marines, and allied forces in Ukraine, the UK, and Israel. In July 2025 the company closed a $30 million Series B led by Ballistic Ventures.
Ryan Mullins
Ryan David Mullins is the co-founder and CEO of Onlife, a Los Angeles spatial-AI company building a Smart Map powered by a proprietary Spatial Behavior Engine. He is best known for creating Aglet, the location-based sneaker game that grew to roughly 4 million players by getting people to walk in the real world to collect virtual kicks. A former Director of Future Trends at Adidas and a serial founder (oolipo, readfy), Mullins blends product building with public writing on technology, philosophy and theology - styling himself an entrepreneur-philosopher who chases what he calls the Prometheus Principle.
Reveal Technology
Reveal Technology is a veteran-founded defense software company in Bozeman, Montana, building AI tools that work at the tactical edge - offline, under fire, and in real time. Its flagship products, Farsight (rapid geospatial intelligence from drone video) and Identifi (tactical mobile biometrics), are fielded with the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, the Marine Corps, and allied forces. The company's pitch is simple: when the cloud disappears, the mission can't.