Founder & Managing Partner, Space Capital | Author of 'The Space Economy'
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Chad Anderson has spent over a decade pioneering investment in the space economy — and shows leaders why it may be the greatest business opportunity of our lifetime.
Anderson makes the investor's case that the commercial space boom is a bigger opportunity than the early internet — and one most business leaders are still overlooking. He maps where the value is being created and how enterprises, not just space companies, can capitalize.
Drawing on a decade of investing, Anderson reframes "space" away from launches and astronauts toward the invisible infrastructure — GPS, geospatial intelligence, satellite communications — that already underpins the global economy and is now accelerating.
Anderson offers a venture capitalist's framework for identifying opportunity in a nascent, fast-moving market: how to build an investment thesis, spot the major and minor players, and separate genuine potential from hype.
Anderson uses the space economy as a case study in how entirely new markets emerge — lessons in timing, entrepreneurship, and blue-sky opportunity that apply well beyond the space sector.
Chad Anderson is the founder and managing partner of Space Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm that has been pioneering investment in the space economy for over a decade, now investing from its third fund with more than $100 million under management. The author of The Space Economy: Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime, published by Wiley, he is one of the most cited experts on the commercial space sector — regularly featured across CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times, and described by TechCrunch as among the best-positioned people to weigh in on the future of the space startup industry.
Before founding Space Capital, Anderson managed a $50-billion real estate portfolio at JP Morgan Chase through the Great Recession, then earned an MBA focused on entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Oxford. He serves on boards including the Satellite Applications Catapult, which supports the United Kingdom's national strategy to grow its space sector, and has served as a director of the Explorers Club. His firm's distinctive perspective comes from a partnership that has built rockets, satellites, and operating systems, and led multiple exits as operators — not just investors.
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