#48 Will This Space Startup Make It off the Ground?

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Technology, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Atomos co-founders Vanessa Clark and William Kowalski want to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft for moving satellites around in orbit. Can they capitalize on all the new money flowing into the final frontier — or will their sci-fi ambitions be too much for investors to stomach? Today's investors are Howie Diamond, Jillian Manus, Phil Nadel, and Michael Hyatt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.5	One of the things that's really frustrating, I mean what progress have we seen
1:04.7	NASA do really since that polo mission?
1:07.0	Vanessa Clark and William Kowalski are here with a pitch that will get space nerds everywhere pretty excited.
1:15.5	The next wave of space tech, think crude missions to Mars, space tourism, is fast approaching.
1:21.8	But it's not NASA that's funding a lot of these projects,
1:24.7	it's venture capital. Can today's startup, A Tomos, get a piece of the action?
1:30.3	I'm Josh Muccio and from Gimlet Media this is the pitch.
1:36.0	Our investors today
1:38.0	Jillian Manus
1:39.0	Jillian is a partner at Structure Capital
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