​Building rockets, satellites, and lunar infrastructure is expensive. Building them profitably is harder. This month the Small Steps & Giant Leaps community is gathering to discuss what it actually takes to finance humanity's expansion into space.

​Forget the ChatGPT wrapper playbook. Space companies face unique challenges: long development cycles, regulatory complexity, massive capital requirements, and customers who often demand flight heritage before signing contracts.

​Join us for conversations about:

• ​Raising capital for hardware when investors want software margins

• ​Non-dilutive funding including government contracts, SBIR/STTR grants, and strategic partnerships

• ​Unit economics of launch services, satellite constellations, and space infrastructure

• ​Due diligence for deep tech investments with multi-year R&D cycles

• ​Dual-use revenue and navigating ITAR while building commercial businesses

​​​Agenda:

​6:00 - Food, Drinks, Networking

​6:25 - Introduction by Alder of Small Steps & Giant Leaps

​6:30 - Decentralized Approaches to Financing Space Projects by Pablo Moncada of MoonDAO

​7:00 - 1 min Pitches by Space Investors & Startups (link to sign up to pitch- https://forms.gle/d6jJV6Yw5ZkhNMKF9)

​7:30 - Food, Drinks, Networking

​​​Sponsors:

​This event is free thanks to the generosity of our sponsors! This event's sponsors are:

• ​MoonDAO (https://www.moondao.com/): MoonDAO is accelerating our multiplanetary future with an open platform to fund, collaborate, and compete on challenges that get us closer to a lunar settlement.

• ​Founder's Inc (https://f.inc/): Where future-defining companies take shape. Founder's Inc is the first check for founders solving hard problems in emerging domains.

​Want to sponsor a future SSGL event? Reach out to Alder

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