Webinar
Unicorn Hunting: Space Race 2.0
Join Alumni Ventures Senior Associate Drew Wandzilak for an inside look at the next generation of space innovation and the startups leading the charge.
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As private investment fuels a new era of exploration, commercialization, and infrastructure in space, venture-backed companies are driving breakthroughs in satellite technology, space travel, and beyond. This webinar will explore the key players, emerging trends, and investment opportunities shaping Space Race 2.0.
Whether you’re an investor, entrepreneur, or simply fascinated by the future of space, this session will provide valuable insights into how venture capital is accelerating this frontier. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn where the next space unicorns are emerging and how you can be part of the journey.
Why Attend?
- HomeEmerging Space Trends: Learn how startups are revolutionizing industries like communications, defense, and exploration.
- HomeInvestment Opportunities: Discover where venture capital is flowing in the booming space sector.
- HomeExpert Insights: Gain perspective from Drew Wandzilak on what makes a high-potential space startup.
Reserve your spot today for this exciting discussion on the future of space investing. Alumni Ventures is America’s largest venture capital firm for individual investors.
About your presenter
Drew Wandzilak invests in breakthrough technologies that matter to the real world—systems that generate power, move hardware, secure nations, or decode biology. He focuses on companies operating in high-heat, high-speed, high-stakes environments where technical performance is existential and strategic value is measured in megawatts, meters per second, or mission success. Across aerospace, energy, and defense, Drew backs founders who don’t just pitch vision—they bend atoms, trajectories, and supply chains to make it real.
His investment lens prioritizes platforms over point solutions, scale advantages rooted in physics or manufacturing, and mission alignment with long-term public interest. That includes nuclear reactors that deploy like data centers, orbital vehicles that reshape access to space, hypersonic systems built for rapid iteration, and genetic tools that bring diagnostics to the edge. These aren’t just technical moonshots—they’re foundational bets on how the next century will be powered, protected, and personalized.
Drew led Alumni Ventures’ investment in Impulse Space, which is building the in-space logistics layer for a high-frequency orbital economy. He backed Aalo Atomics, a small modular reactor company designing standardized, factory-built nuclear power for grid-scale deployment. He also invested in Astro Mechanica, which is reinventing hypersonic aerospace testing for the modern battlefield, and Acorn Genetics, which is miniaturizing genomics to enable low-cost, distributed DNA testing anywhere.
These companies reflect Drew’s broader strategy: to invest in enduring platforms that serve strategic industries and unlock decades of downstream innovation. He believes the next great venture outcomes will come not just from apps or algorithms, but from reengineering the physical world—and the infrastructure that underpins it.