Different lenses.
Shared conviction.

Five partners with a serious appreciation for curiosity and a shared scientific perspective.

Galileo Galilei

General Partner

United States

Energy & advanced manufacturing

Follow the evidence. Keep asking.

Galileo focuses on energy systems and advanced manufacturing. He works with founders on customer discovery, technical hiring and the transition from an experiment to a repeatable operating process.

General Partner galileo@milkywaycap.com

Johannes Kepler

General Partner

United States

Aerospace & robotics

Find the pattern. Build the system.

Johannes focuses on aerospace and robotics. He looks at the connections between components, the constraints that shape a system and the commercial model that could support its use.

General Partner johannes@milkywaycap.com

Carl Sagan

General Partner

United States

Space infrastructure

Keep the larger picture in view.

Carl focuses on space infrastructure and the way technical ideas are communicated. He helps a founding team make its purpose clear without getting ahead of the evidence.

General Partner carl@milkywaycap.com

Katherine Johnson

General Partner

United States

Aerospace systems & reliability

Make the whole mission add up.

Katherine focuses on aerospace systems, reliability and operational planning. Her approach asks how each engineering decision affects the requirements of the whole mission.

General Partner katherine@milkywaycap.com

Marie Curie

General Partner

United States

Energy & advanced materials

Make progress measurable.

Marie focuses on energy and advanced materials. She helps teams distinguish a promising result from a reproducible one, and a development milestone from a commercial outcome.

General Partner marie@milkywaycap.com

Sena Quill

External Operating Adviser

United States

Sena is an operating adviser who supports portfolio teams on operations and hiring. She is independent, not an employee, general partner or member of Milky Way Capital.

No email address is published for Sena.

Ideas are better
when put to work.

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