#43: Finance Secrets from Space: How to Invest - and Attract Investment (feat. Bogdan Gogulan, NewSpace Capital CEO)
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Most VCs don’t grow up dreaming about corner offices. Bogdan Gogulan did - and he got one, or close enough. Starting as an analyst climbing the corporate finance ladder, Bogdan’s journey to becoming CEO of a space-focused venture capital firm is nothing short of impressive. In this episode , he opens up about how the space industry surprised him, why switching from back-office brilliance to front-line dealmaking meant more than just a career pivot, and how his roots in the defense world helped shape his investment philosophy.
Today, as CEO and managing partner at NewSpace Capital, Bogdan is one of the few investors playing squarely in space’s “valley of death” - the messy middle between early-stage promise and actual scale. We talk about why this growth stage is so brutal, how his team identifies the global category leaders worth betting on, and what it really takes for founders to make the leap from scrappy startup to international force. We also explore why space investment is no longer about “selling the dream,” why government contracts are useful but insufficient, and how exactly NewSpace Capital is quietly building an impressive portfolio of companies shaping the orbital economy.
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| 0:00.0 | And the approach is we invest in commercial space companies. |
| 0:04.4 | Plus, it is important that commercial space is the biggest part of their business. |
| 0:08.2 | Why? |
| 0:08.6 | Because commercial space is bigger. |
| 0:10.5 | It's 80% of the market. |
| 0:11.9 | And it is a very important foundation for anything that you do. |
| 0:15.7 | I spend half of my career in defense business and know how cyclical it is. |
| 0:20.0 | One year is fantastic. another year there is nothing. |
| 0:22.3 | Now the government business, that's the cherry on top. |
| 0:25.6 | Sometimes that cherry is the size of pineapple. |
| 0:28.0 | But what's important that if it is not there, these companies, they have a solid business |
| 0:32.8 | case. |
| 0:33.4 | So what I always say is that the companies that we invest in, they play a critical role in the global security infrastructure. |
| 0:41.5 | But the defense business is not crucial for these companies' survival. |
| 0:49.9 | All right now, lift up. The clock is started. |
| 0:52.3 | We choose to see a lot of the world. Hello, a lift-off. The clock is started. We have a lift-off. |
| 0:57.8 | We have a lift-off. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the NewsSpace Vision podcast sponsored by Live You, |
| 1:04.4 | where we discuss New Space Technology, Finance, and Innovation with executives, founders, |
| 1:08.5 | and more exciting people from the startup and new space |
| 1:11.1 | ecosystem. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Sven Shibara. |
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