Space is hard and investing in it is also hard as Central Banks raised interest rates

and capital evaporated private investment into the space sector plunged but the

worst may be over.

According to the Serafim Space Index,

in the first three months of this year,

total investment rebounded to $1.4 billion,

a 75% surge from the final quarter of 2022.

There's been a return to growth stage investing.

So this quarter saw a record number of B rounds, C rounds, D rounds,

E rounds, than any other quarter in the history of our publication.

So that suggests to me that there's been a pause during 2022

as investors just took stock of what was going in on the market.

Mark Bogot is the CEO of Serafim Space, a leading venture capital fund

specializing in, well, space.

He's been investing in the sector through Serafim since 2016 and the firm's

portfolio includes companies that have appeared on this podcast like Leo Labs and

Hawkeye, plus many, many more. In this episode, Bogot joins me from the Space Symposium

in Colorado Springs to discuss the current investing landscape

and where he's making big bets on the future.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is manifest space.

Mark Boggett of Sarah from space, Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you for inviting me.

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