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Explorer 1 Fund

Venture capital · Venice, CA, United States · North America

explorer1fund.space

Explorer 1 Fund is an investment firm focused on the emerging space economy. Its team combines experience at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aerospace engineering at Boeing and Blue Origin, and institutional investing in early stage venture and public equities.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning

In its own wordsspacenew space economyaerospaceearly stage venturepublic equities

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Explorer 1 Fund lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (57%), Space & Defense (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (14%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Balerion Space Ventures, Capitoria and Glade Brook Capital Partners.

No funding round on record names Explorer 1 Fund yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies

Balerion Space Ventures 3Capitoria 2Glade Brook Capital Partners 2Scribble Ventures 2137 Ventures 18090 Industries 1ARK Venture Fund 1Acequia Capital 1

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Co-investors

	Share
Balerion Space Ventures	3
Capitoria	2
Glade Brook Capital Partners	2
Scribble Ventures	2
137 Ventures	1
8090 Industries	1
ARK Venture Fund	1
Acequia Capital	1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

• United States75%
• Netherlands25%

Site status

• Site answers4100%
• No longer answers00%
• Points to another company00%
• Parked or sold domain00%

A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.

Compare Explorer 1 Fund head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

vs Balerion Space Ventures3 shared companies→vs Capitoria2 shared companies→vs Glade Brook Capital Partners2 shared companies→vs Scribble Ventures2 shared companies→vs 137 Ventures1 shared company→vs 8090 Industries1 shared company→

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Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Portfolio

4 companies checked against their own sites

Company	What it does	Themes	First round with it	Evidence
Lynklynk.so · Netherlands	Lynk provides a contract management system for real estate developers and builders	Real Estate & Construction		Portfolio page
Radian Aerospaceradianaerospace.com · United States	Radian Aerospace develops and manufactures reusable spaceplanes for orbital access and hypersonic test missions	AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
STOKE Spacestokespace.com · United States	Stoke Space is building a space transportation system called Nova to launch, maneuver, return, and rapidly reconstitute critical space assets	AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Varda Spacevarda.com · United States	Varda Space Industries processes materials in orbit in microgravity and returns them to Earth, offering services for government reentry testing and biopharma research.	Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026

Site

explorer1fund.space

Last read

5 Nov 2026

Watching since

6 Nov 2026

Companies checked

4

Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.

How we grade the data

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  https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/explorer1fund.space

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