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John Serri
John A. Serri is a physicist-turned-entrepreneur and the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of EyeQue Corporation, a Newark, California company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a clinically registered eye-refraction device. With a PhD in Physics from MIT and 35 years spent building secure government networks and one of the world's largest satellite phone systems (Globalstar), Serri launched EyeQue in his 60s to make affordable vision testing available to anyone with a phone. Under his leadership EyeQue built its at-home Personal Vision Tracker on technology licensed from MIT, won CES 2017 Best of Innovation, amassed roughly 25 patents, and reached users in more than 150 countries.
Northwood Space
Northwood Space is an El Segundo, California company building the ground side of the space economy: rapidly manufactured, software-defined phased-array ground stations that pull data down from satellites. Its flagship product, Portal, electronically steers beams to track many satellites at once instead of mechanically pointing a single dish, which the company argues removes the bottleneck choking modern satellite constellations. Founded in 2023 by CEO Bridgit Mendler, CTO Griffin Cleverly, and head of software Shaurya Luthra, Northwood has raised $136.4M total, including a $100M Series B in January 2026, and holds a $49.8M U.S. Space Force contract to modernize the Satellite Control Network.