Commercial space, venture, and DoD with Jordan Noone and Jenna Bryant

I’m pleased to have on Jordan Noone and Jenna Bryant to talk about how commercial companies in space and deep tech can do business with DoD. Jordan is General Partner of Embedded Ventures and had co-founded the space launch company Relativity Space. Jenna Bryant is a General Partner and CEO of Embedded Ventures, and was an investor and teambuilder before that. Embedded Ventures is a venture firm that pursues the next generation of space companies -- those new applications that are enabled by rapidly decreasing launch costs. They recently announced a cooperative R&D agreement (CRADA) with the Space Force where they will help companies navigate customers, requirements, and the acquisition process, and on the flip side, they help SpaceWERX evaluate the technical feasibility and talent of the companies. In the episode we discuss: - Why companies need to think about adversarial capital early - How government and industry can solve each others valleys of death - The future of of digital engineering workflows - When dual-use companies should start engaging government - How public affairs gets in the way of customer discovery This podcast was produced by Eric Lofgren. You can follow me on Twitter @AcqTalk and find more information at https://AcquisitionTalk.com.